[e2e] paper on "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet" now available

[Gaurav Raina]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Vern Paxson wrote:

> Difficulties in Simulating the Internet
....
> and judiciously exploring the simulation parameter space.  We finish with a
> brief look at a collaborative effort within the research community to develop
> a common network simulator.

Apologies if I am merely stating the obvious, but along with developing 
simulation tools I think it is *imperative* to try and develop
theoretical tools which might give some rules of thumb on how the results
could scale to a network as large and complex as the Internet. Apart from 
the obvious industries involved in Internet Research - *some* of the 
academic reseach groups are :

http://netlab.caltech.edu/
http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/int/
http://comm.csl.uiuc.edu:80/~srikant/pub.html/ 

An exhaustive list is not possible...

Might it be a good idea to consider having a common database/pool for 
research papers/preprints dealing with the different research topics? Like
the way the physics community has the Los Alamos archive.

Gaurav