Publications

• Cluster-based spatio-temporal background traffic generation for network simulation. Ting Li and Jason Liu. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), accepted for publication.
• Symbiotic network simulation and emulation. Miguel Erazo, Rong Rong, and Jason Liu. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), under minor revision.
  A rate-based TCP traffic model to accelerate network simulation. Ting Li, Nathanael Van Vorst, and Jason Liu, Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 89(4):466-480, 2013. DOI: 10.1177/0037549712469892.
• OpenFlow-based flow-level bandwidth provisioning for CICQ switches. Hao Jin, Deng Pan, Jason Liu, and Niki Pissinou, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 62(9): 1799-1812, 2013. DOI:10.1109/TC.2012.167.
• PrimoGENI for hybrid network simulation and emulation experiments in GENI. Nathanael Van Vorst, Miguel Erazo, and Jason Liu, Journal of Simulation, 6:179-192, 2012. DOI:10.1057/JOS.2012.5.
• A model-driven emulation approach to large-scale TCP performance evaluation. Miguel A. Erazo, and Jason Liu. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), 5(1/2):130-150, 2010. DOI:10.1504/IJCNDS. 2010.033971.
• Real-time network simulation support for scalable routing experiments. Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, 5(2):146-156, 2009.  DOI:10.1504/IJSPM.2009.028627.
• Parallel hybrid network traffic models. Jason Liu and Yue Li. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 85(4): 271-286, 2009. DOI:10.1177/0037549708099996.
• A real-time network simulation infrastructure based on OpenVPN. Jason Liu, Yue Li, Nathanael Van Vorst, Scott Mann, and Keith Hellman, Journal of Systems and Software, 82(3):473-485, 2009. DOI:10.1016/J.JSS.2008.08.015.
• On the performance of a hybrid network traffic model. Jason Liu and Yue Li. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 16(6):656-669, 2008. DOI:10.1016/ J.SIMPAT.2008.04.007.
• Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions. Calvin Newport, David Kotz, Yougu Yuan, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, and Chip Elliott. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 83(9): 643-661, 2007. DOI:10.1177/0037549707085632.
• RINSE: the real-time immersive network simulation environment for network security exercises (extended version). Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, and Chris Grier. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 82(1):43-59, 2006. DOI: 10.1177/0037549706065544.
• Empirical validation of wireless models in simulations of ad hoc routing protocols. Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David Kotz, and Luiz Felipe Perrone. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 81(4):307-323, 2005. DOI: 10.1177/0037549705055017.
• Composite synchronization in parallel discrete-event simulation. David M. Nicol and Jason Liu. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 13(5): 433-446, May 2002. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2002.1003854.

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

• A simulation and emulation study of SDN-based multipath routing for fat-tree data center networks. Eric Jo, Linda Butler, Deng Pan, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Savannah, Georgia, December 2014, to appear.
• Performance study of a minimalistic simulator on XSEDE massively parallel systems. Rong Rong, Jiang Hao, Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Atlanta, Georgia, July 2014, Article No. 15. DOI:10.1145/2616498.2616512.
• GPU-assisted hybrid network traffic model. Jason Liu, Yuan Liu, Zhihui Du, and Ting Li. In  roceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS), Denver, CO, May 2014, pp. 63-74. DOI:10.1145/2601381.2601382. (Best Paper Award)
• Toward PrimoGENI Constellation for distributed at-scale hybrid network test. Jason Liu, Mohammad Abu Obaida, and Fernando Dos Santos. In Proceedings of the 3rd GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE), Atlanta, GA, March 2014, 7 pages. DOI:10.1109/GREE.2014.10.
• Real-time scheduling of logical processes for parallel discrete-event simulation. Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Washington, DC, December 2013, pp. 2959-2971. DOI:10.1109/WSC.2013.6721664.
• Leveraging symbiotic relationship between simulation and emulation for scalable network experimentation. Miguel A. Erazo and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS), Montreal, Canada, May 2013, pp. 79-90. DOI:10.1145/2486092.2486103.
• Joint host-network optimization for energy-efficient data center networking. Hao Jin, Tosmate Cheocherngngarn, Dmita Levy, Alex Smith, Deng Pan, Jason Liu, and Niki Pissinou. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 27th International Symposium on  Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS), Boston, MA, May 2013, pp. 623-634. DOI:10.1109/IPDPS.2013.100.
• Depth-first worst-fit search based multipath routing for data center networks. Tosmate Cheocherngngarn, Hao Jin, Jean Andrian, Deng Pan, and Jason Liu, In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2012), Anaheim, CA, December 2012, pp. 2821-2826. DOI:10.1109/GLOCOM. 2012.6503544.
• Hierarchical composite synchronization. Jason Liu and Rong Rong, In Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2012), Zhangjiajie, China, July 2012, pp. 3-12. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2012.20.
• Realizing large-scale interactive network simulation via model splitting. Nathanael Van Vorst and Jason Liu, In Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2012), Zhangjiajie, China, July 2012, pp. 120-129. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2012.35.
• Toward comprehensive and accurate simulation performance prediction of parallel file systems. Miguel Erazo, Ting Li, Jason Liu and Stephan Eidenbenz, In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, MA, June 2012, 12 pages. DOI:10.1109/ DSN.2012.6263930.
• Simulation studies of OpenFlow-based in-network caching strategies. Ting Li, Nathanael Van Vorst, Rong Rong, and Jason Liu, In Proceedings of the 15th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS 2012). Orlando, FL, March 2012, 7 pages. (Best Paper Award)
• How low can you go? Spherical routing for scalable network simulations. Nathanael Van Vorst, Ting Li, and Jason Liu, In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2011), Raffles Hotel, Singapore, July 2011, pp. 259-268. DOI:10.1109/MASCOTS.2011.35.
• PrimoGENI: integrating real-time network simulation and emulation in GENI, Nathanael Van Vorst, Miguel Erazo, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2011), Nice, France, June 2011, 9 pages. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2011.5936747.
• OpenFlow based flow level bandwidth provisioning for CICQ switches. Hao  Jin, Deng Pan, Jason Liu, and Niki Pissinou, In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011) Mini-Conference, Shanghai, China, April 2011, pp. 476-480. DOI:10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935208.
• Model-driven network emulation with virtual time machine. Jason Liu, Raju Rangaswami, and Ming Zhao. In Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2010), Baltimore, MD, December 2010, pp. 688-696. DOI:10.1109/ WSC.2010.5679120.
• On enabling real-time large-scale network simulation in GENI: The PrimoGENI approach (poster abstract). Miguel A. Erazo and Jason Liu, In Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010), Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, March 2010, 2 pages. DOI:10.4108/ ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8636.
• A large-scale real-time network simulation study using PRIME. Jason Liu, Yue Li, and Ying He, In Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'09), Austin, TX, USA, December 2009, pp. 797-806. DOI:10.1109/WSC.2009.5429678.
• Real-time security exercises on a realistic interdomain routing experiment platform. Yue Li, Michael Liljenstam, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'09), Lake Placid, NY, USA, June 2009, pp. 54-63. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2009.12.
• A fluid background traffic model. Ting Li and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’09), Dresden, Germany, June 2009, 6 pages. DOI:10.1109/ICC.2009.5198605.
• SVEET! A scalable virtualized evaluation environment for TCP. Miguel Erazo, Yue Li, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom'09), Washington DC, USA, April 2009, 10 pages. DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976227.
• Toward scalable routing experiments with real-time network simulation. Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'08), Rome, Italy, June 2008, pp. 23-30. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2008.25.
• Interval branching. Patrick Peschlow, Peter Martini, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'08), Rome, Italy, June 2008, pp. 99-108. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2008.8.
• A primer for real-time simulation of large-scale networks. Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'08), part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, Ottawa, Canada. April 2008, pp. 85-94. DOI: 10.1109/ANSS-41.2008.18.
• Immersive real-time large-scale network simulation: a research summary. Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08), NSF NGS Workshop, Miami, Florida, April 2008, 5 pages. DOI:10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536406.
• Parallel simulation of hybrid network traffic models. Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'07), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2007, pp. 141-151. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2007.26.
• An open and scalable emulation infrastructure for large-scale real-time network simulations. Jason Liu, Scott Mann, Nathanael Van Vorst, and Keith Hellman. In Proceedings of INFOCOM 2007 MiniSymposium, Anchorage, AK, USA, May 2007, pp. 2471-2475. DOI:10.1109/INFCOM.2007.304.
• Packet-level integration of fluid TCP models in real-time network simulation. Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'06), Monterey, CA, USA, December 2006, pp. 2162-2169. DOI:10.1109/WSC.2006.323017.
• Advanced concepts in large-scale network simulation. David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of 2005 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'05), Orlando, FL, USA, December 2005, pp. 153-166. DOI:10.1109/WSC. 2005.1574248.
• RINSE: the real-time interactive network simulation environment for network security exercises. Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, and Chris Grier. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'05), Monterey, CA, USA, June 2005, pp. 119-128. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2005.23.
• Outdoor experimental comparison of four ad hoc routing algorithms. Robert S.Gray, David Kotz, Calvin C. Newport, Nikita Dubrovsky, Aaron Fiske, Jason Liu, Christopher Masone, Susan McGrath, and Yougu Yuan. In Proceedings of the 7thACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'04), Venice, Italy, October 2004, pp. 220-229. DOI: 10.1145/1023663.1023703.
• Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions. David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, and Chip Elliott. In Proceedings ofthe 7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of  Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'04), Venice, Italy, October 2004, pp. 78-82.  DOI: 10.1145/1023663.1023679.
• Simulation validation using direct execution of wireless ad-hoc routing protocols. Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David F. Kotz, and Luiz Felipe Perrone. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'04), Kufstein, Austria, May 2004, pp. 7-16. DOI: 10.1109/PADS.2004.1301280.
• Development of an Internet backbone topology for large-scale network simulations. Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, and David M. Nicol. In Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'03), New Orleans, LA, December 2003, pp. 694-702. DOI:10.1109/WSC.2003.1261485.
• Simulation of large-scale networks using SSF. David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, Michael Liljenstam, and Guanhua Yan. In Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'03), New Orleans, LA, December 2003, pp. 650-657. DOI:10.1109/ WSC.2003.1261480.
• Multiscale modeling and simulation of worm effects on the Internet routing Infrastructure. David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam, and Jason Liu. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Modeling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation (Performance TOOLS 2003), Urbana, IL, September 2003, pp. 1-10. DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-45232-4_1.
• An implementation of the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework on the Cray MTA. Robert R. Henry, Simon H. Kahan, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol. In Proceedings the 17th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'03), San Diego,  CA, June 2003, pp. 77-85. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2003.1207423.
• Lookahead revisited in wireless network simulations. Jason Liu and David M. Nicol. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'02), Washington, DC, May 2002, pp. 79-88. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2002.1004203.
• Towards high performance modeling of the 802.11 wireless protocol. Jason Liu David M. Nicol, Luiz Felipe Perrone, and Michael Liljenstam. In Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'01), Arlington, VA, December 2001, pp. 1315-1320. DOI:10.1109/WSC.2001.977451.
• Simulation modeling of large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks. Jason Liu, Felipe Perrone, David M. Nicol, Chip Elliot, and David Pearson. In Proceedings of the European Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2001 (Euro-SIW'01), London, England, June 2001, 12 pages.
• Lock-free scheduling of logical processes in parallel simulation. Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, and King Tan. In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'01), Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA, May 2001, pp. 22-31. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2001.924618.
• Learning not to share. Jason Liu and David M. Nicol. In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'01), Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA, May 2001, pp. 46-55. DOI: 10.1109/PADS.2001.924620.
• Safe timestamps and large-scale modeling. David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, and James Cowie, In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'00), Bologna, Italy, May 2000, pp. 71-78. DOI:10.1109/PADS.2000.847146.
• Towards realistic million-node Internet simulations. James Cowie, Hongbo Liu, Jason Liu, David Nicol, and Andy Ogielski. In Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June/July 1999, 9 pages.
• Performance prediction of a parallel simulator. Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, Brian J. Premore, and Anna L. Poplawski. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'99), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 1999, pp. 156-164. DOI:10.1109/PADS.1999.766172.
• The dark side of risk (what your mother never told you about Time Warp). David M. Nicol and Xiaowen Liu. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97), Lockenhaus, Austria, May 1997, pp. 188-195. DOI:10.1109/PADS.1997.594606.
• Parallelizable execution-driven simulation of threaded distributed memory parallel computations. David M. Nicol and Jason X. Liu. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96), San Jose, CA, February 1996, pp. 174-178. DOI:10.1109/MASCOT.1996.501013.

 BOOK CHAPTERS

• Parallel discrete-event simulation. Jason Liu. Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Edited by James J. Cochran. John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-40063-0. March 2011, 21 pages. DOI:10.1002/9780470400531.
• Parallel and distributed immersive real-time simulation of large-scale networks. Jason Liu. Parallel and Distributed Computing. Edited by Alberto Ros Bardisa. ISBN: 978-953-307-057-5, pp. 221-245. DOI:10.5772/9453.

THESIS

• Improvements in conservative parallel simulation of large-scale models. Xiaowen (Jason) Liu. Ph.D. Thesis. Dartmouth College. February 2003. Advisor: David M. Nicol.