It's sad how network operators do not even know what their devices are capable of. The 14.4 Mbps category is a myth. The correct value is 14.0 Mbps. Yes, 14.4 is exactly 7.2 Mbps times 2, but it is still wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access#HSDPA_User_Equipment_.28UE.29_categories

That is not always possible for practical reasons, such as proprietary software that was used to find the results. Besides, submissions which describe a black box with the only value being supposedly correct simulation results will not be accepted anyways. Simulation is often simply a means to visualize and quantize results which are already expected from the theory developed by a publication. Simulation results prove a theory neither right nor wrong.

It is already common knowledge among researches that simulated results can not be trusted. A program is only as good as it is tested. Only for scientific programs, testing is not usually as trivial as with application software. For example, you may have to analyze a system statistically and verify that the simulation results match the expected statistics. The scientific value is in that analysis and simulation results verified against such an analysis. While I welcome the idea of making the code used in scientific work public, I believe a much better reason to do so is that other researchers can improve on it. Of course, research is not always meant to be for the common good...