MASCOTS 2006: Monterey, California, USA

14th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2006), 11-14 September 2006, Monterey, California, USA. IEEE Computer Society 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2573-3 BibTeX

Storage Systems 1

Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed Amer:
Adapting Predictions and Workloads for Power Management. 3-12
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Soyoon Lee, Hyokyung Bahn, Sam H. Noh:
Parallelism-Aware Request Scheduling for MEMS-based Storage Devices. 13-20
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Barbara T. Theodorides, Walter A. Burkhard:
B: Disk Array Data Layout Tolerating Multiple Failures. 21-32
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Wireless Networking

Jean Cao, Carey L. Williamson:
Towards Stadium-Scale Wireless Media Streaming. 33-42
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Senan J. Doyle, Timothy K. Forde, Linda Doyle:
Spatial Stationarity of Link Statistics in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Modelling. 43-50
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Anh Phan Speer, Ing-Ray Chen:
On Optimal Path and Source Redundancy for Achieving QoS and Maximizing Lifetime of Query-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. 51-60
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Analytical Methods 1

Dror G. Feitelson:
Metrics for Mass-Count Disparity. 61-68
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Giuliano Casale, Richard R. Muntz, Giuseppe Serazzi:
A New Class of Non-Iterative Bounds for Closed Queueing Networks. 69-76
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Dong Li, Jun Wang:
eRAID: A Queueing Model Based Energy Saving Policy. 77-86
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Hardware Simulation

Hans Vandierendonck, Koen De Bosschere:
On the Impact of OS and Linker Effects on Level-2 Cache Performance. 87-95
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Lars Albertsson:
Holistic Debugging -- Enabling Instruction Set Simulation for Software Quality Assurance. 96-103
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Vassos Soteriou, Hangsheng Wang, Li-Shiuan Peh:
A Statistical Traffic Model for On-Chip Interconnection Networks. 104-116
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Network Simulation 1

George Apostolopoulos, Constantinos Hassapis:
V-eM: A Cluster of Virtual Machines for Robust, Detailed, and High-Performance Network Emulation. 117-126
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Guanhua Yan, Stephan Eidenbenz:
Sluggish Calendar Queues for Network Simulation. 127-136
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Jung Ha Hong, Oleg Gusak, Khosrow Sohraby, Neal Oliver:
Performance Analysis of Packet Encapsulation and Aggregation. 137-146
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Best Paper Candidates

Xin Fu, James Poe, Tao Li, José A. B. Fortes:
Characterizing Microarchitecture Soft Error Vulnerability Phase Behavior. 147-155
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Giovanna Carofiglio, Rossano Gaeta, Michele Garetto, Paolo Giaccone, Emilio Leonardi, Matteo Sereno:
A Fluid-Diffusive Approach for Modelling P2P Systems. 156-166
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Edi Shmueli, Dror G. Feitelson:
Using Site-Level Modeling to Evaluate the Performance of Parallel System Schedulers. 167-178
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Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Systems

Alok Madhukar, Carey L. Williamson:
A Longitudinal Study of P2P Traffic Classification. 179-188
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Cheolwoo Park, H. Shen, J. S. Marron, Félix Hernández-Campos, Darryl Veitch:
Capturing the Elusive Poissonity in Web Traffic. 189-196
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Yingwu Zhu, Xiaoyu Yang:
Implications of Neighbor Selection on DHT Overlays. 197-206
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Operating Systems

Michael Kwok, Tim Brecht, Martin Karsten, Jialin Song:
Modelling and Improving Group Communication in Server Operating Systems. 207-217
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Neena R. Kaushik, Silvia M. Figueira, Stephen A. Chiappari:
Flexible Time-Windows for Advance Reservation Scheduling. 218-225
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Kaiqi Xiong, Harry G. Perros:
Computer Resource Optimization for Differentiated Customer Services. 226-238
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Network Simulation 2

Ferdy Hanssen, Angelika Mader, Pierre G. Jansen:
Verifying the Distributed Real-Time Network Protocol RTnet Using Uppaal. 239-246
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Andrzej Kochut, A. Udaya Shankar:
Timestep Stochastic Simulation of Computer Networks using Diffusion Approximation. 247-254
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Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Gomez Oscar, Makoto Imase:
Quasi-Dynamic Network Model Partition Method for Accelerating Parallel Network Simulation. 255-264
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Wireless and Optical Networking

Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-Shiuan Peh:
Situation-Aware Caching Strategies in Highly Varying Mobile Networks. 265-274
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Dheeraj Reddy, George F. Riley, Bryan Larish, Yang Chen:
Measuring and Explaining Differences in Wireless Simulation Models. 275-282
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Chih-Chieh Hsu, Michael Devetsikiotis, Stephen D. Roberts:
Fast Simulation of Optical Burst Switching Networks Using Simulated Annealing. 283-292
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Analytical Methods 2

Rashid Mehmood, Jon Crowcroft, Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani:
A Parallel Implicit Method for the Steady-State Solution of CTMCs. 293-302
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Tamas Suto, Jeremy T. Bradley, William J. Knottenbelt:
Performance Trees: A New Approach to Quantitative Performance Specification. 303-313
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Yixin Diao, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Sujay S. Parekh, Hidayatullah Shaikh, Maheswaran Surendra, Asser N. Tantawi:
Modeling Differentiated Services of Multi-Tier Web Applications. 314-326
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Network Management

Bashar Qudah, Nabil J. Sarhan:
Analysis of Resource Sharing and Cache Management in Scalable Video-on-Demand. 327-334
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Tilman Wolf, Ramaswamy Ramaswamy, Siddhartha Bung, Ning Yang:
An Architecture for Distributed Real-Time Passive Network Measurement. 335-344
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Somsak Vanit-Anunchai, Jonathan Billington:
Effect of Sequence Number Wrap on DCCP Connection Establishment. 345-354
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Network Simulation 3

Sam Jansen, Anthony McGregor:
Performance, Validation and Testing with the Network Simulation Cradle. 355-362
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Stefan Birrer, Fabián E. Bustamante:
Resilience in Overlay Multicast Protocols. 363-372
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Li Tang, Hui Zhang, Jun Li, Yanda Li:
End-to-End Delay Behavior in the Internet. 373-382
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Analytical Methods 3

Hans Vandierendonck, Pedro Trancoso:
Building and Validating a Reduced TPC-H Benchmark. 383-392
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Vladimir Vukadinovic, Gunnar Karlsson:
Video Streaming in 3.5G: On Throughput-Delay Performance of Proportional Fair Scheduling. 393-400
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Matthias Werner, Gero Mühl:
Non-reachability in Petri Nets with Delaying Places. 401-412
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Storage Systems 2

Deepavali Bhagwat, Kristal T. Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Ethan L. Miller, Jehan-François Pâris:
Providing High Reliability in a Minimum Redundancy Archival Storage System. 413-421
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Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long:
NVCache: Increasing the Effectiveness of Disk Spin-Down Algorithms with Caching. 422-432
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Li Yin, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Randy H. Katz:
An Empirical Exploration of Black-Box Performance Models for Storage Systems. 433-440
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