SIGMETRICS 1995: Ottawa, Canada

1995 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Ottawa, Canada, May 15-19, 1995, Proceedings. Performance Evaluation Review 23(1), May 1995

Multiprocessors

John Chapin, Stephen Alan Herrod, Mendel Rosenblum, Anoop Gupta: Memory System Performance of UNIX on CC-NUMA Multiprocessors. 1-13 BibTeX
Robert C. Bedichek: Talisman: Fast and Accurate Multicomputer Simulation. 14-24 BibTeX

Multimedia Servers

Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui, Richard R. Muntz: Reducing I/O Demand in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers. 25-36 BibTeX
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi: On Configuring a Single Disk Continuous Media Server. 37-46 BibTeX
Marwan Krunz, Herman D. Hughes: A Traffic Model for MPEG-Coded VBR Streams. 47-55 BibTeX

Hot Topics

Carey L. Williamson, Walter Willinger, Vern Paxson, Benjamin Melamed: Network Traffic Measurement and Modelling (Panel). 56-57 BibTeX
Erol Gelenbe, Peter G. Harrison, Edwige Pitel, Onno J. Boxma, Jean-Michel Fourneau: G-Networks - New Queueing Models with Additional Control Capabilities (Panel). 58-59 BibTeX
Srinivasan Tridandapani, Anton T. Dahbura, Arun K. Somani, Charles U. Martel, John Matthews: Free Performance and Fault Tolerance: Using System Idle Capacity Efficiently (Panel). 60-61 BibTeX
Allen D. Malony, B. Robert Helm, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Barton P. Miller, Karsten Schwan: Data Interpretation and Experiment Planning in Performance Tools (Panel). 62-63 BibTeX

Fault Tolerance

Nitin H. Vaidya: A Case for Two-Level Distributed Recovery Schemes. 64-73 BibTeX
Dick H. J. Epema: An Analysis of Decay-Usage Scheduling in Multiprocessors. 74-85 BibTeX

Video Modelling and Network Control

Anwar Elwalid, Daniel P. Heyman, T. V. Lakshman, Debasis Mitra, Alan Weiss: Fundamental Results on the Performance of ATM Multiplexers with Applications to Video Teleconferencing. 86-97 BibTeX
Edward W. Knightly, Dallas E. Wrege, Jörg Liebeherr, Hui Zhang: Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs of Providing Deterministic Guarantees to VBR Video Traffic. 98-107 BibTeX

Queuing Applications

Youjian Fang, Michael Devetsikiotis, Ioannis Lambadaris, A. Roger Kaye: Exponential Bounds for the Waiting Time Distribution in Markovian Queues, with Applications to TES/GI/I Systems. 108-115 BibTeX
Sem C. Borst: Optimal Probabilistic Allocation of Customer Types to Server. 116-125 BibTeX
Ibrahim Matta, A. Udaya Shankar: Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems. 126-135 BibTeX

Disk Systems

Peter M. Chen, Edward K. Lee: Striping in a RAID Level 5 Disk Array. 136-145 BibTeX
Bruce L. Worthington, Gregory R. Ganger, Yale N. Patt, John Wilkes: On-Line Extraction of SCSI Disk Drive Parameters. 146-156 BibTeX
Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu, Hadas Shachnai: DASD Dancing: A Disk Load Balancing Optimization Scheme for Video-on-Demand Computer. 157-166 BibTeX

Cache Performance

Harjinder S. Sandhu, Kenneth C. Sevcik: An Analytic Study of Dynamic Hardware and Software Cache Coherence Strategies. 167-177 BibTeX
Mats Brorsson: SM-prof: A Tool to Visualise and Find Cache Coherence Performance Bottlenecks in Multiprocessor Programs. 178-187 BibTeX
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Anna R. Karlin, Kai Li: A Study of Integrated Prefetching and Caching Strategies. 188-197 BibTeX

Memory and Parallel Systems

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Aman Singla, Umakishore Ramachandran, H. Venkateswaran: On Characterizing Bandwidth Requirements of Parallel Applications. 198-207 BibTeX
Cathy McCann, John Zahorjan: Scheduling Memory Constrained Jobs on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers. 208-219 BibTeX
Alvin R. Lebeck, David A. Wood: Active Memory: A New Abstraction for Memory-System Simulation. 220-231 BibTeX

Stochastic Systems

Edmundo de Souza e Silva, H. Richard Gail, Reinaldo Vallejos Campos: Calculating Transient Distributions of Cumulative Reward. 231-240 BibTeX
Juan A. Carrasco, Angel Calderón: Regenerative Randomization: Theory and Application Examples. 241-252 BibTeX
Albert G. Greenberg, R. Srikant: Computational Techniques for Accurate Performance Evaluation of Multirate, Multihop Communication Networks. 253-260 BibTeX

Hot Topics

Teunis J. Ott, Robert Braden, T. V. Lakshman, Upamanyu Madhow, C. Brazdziunas, A. Broscius, Arnold L. Neidhardt: The Internet in Evolution, and TCP Over ATM (Panel). 261-262 BibTeX
Kishor S. Trivedi, Andrea Bobbio, Miklós Telek, Reinhard German, Gianfranco Ciardo, Antonio Puliafito: Non-Markovian Petri Nets (Panel). 263-264 BibTeX
Ashok Erramilli, Walter Willinger, T. V. Lakshman, Daniel P. Heyman, Amarnath Mukherjee, San-qi Li, Onuttom Narayan: Performance Impacts of Self-Similarity in Traffic (Panel). 265-266 BibTeX

Measurement and Analysis

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Amin Vahdat, Lok T. Liu, Thomas E. Anderson, David A. Patterson: The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a Network of Workstations. 267-278 BibTeX
Jussi Myllymaki, Miron Livny: Disk-Tape Joins: Synchronizing Disk and Tape Access. 279-290 BibTeX
Vidyadhar Phalke, B. Gopinath: An Inter-Reference Gap Model for Temporal Locality in Program Behavior. 291-300 BibTeX

Extended Abstracts

Jan Braams: Batch Class Process Scheduler for Unix SVR4. 301-302 BibTeX
Susanna Donatelli, Giuliana Franceschinis: State Space Reductions Using Stochastic Well-Formed Net Simplifications: An Application to Random Polling Systems. 303-304 BibTeX
Simonetta Balsamo, Ivan Mura: Approximate Response Time Distribution in Fork and Join Systems. 305-306 BibTeX
Xiaodong Zhang, Zhichen Xu: A Semi-Empirical Approach to Scalability Study. 307-308 BibTeX
Eric Hughes, Marianne Winslett: PEDCAD: A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Object Database Applications. 309-310 BibTeX
James D. Salehi, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Scheduling for Cache Affinity in Parallelized Communication Protocols. 311-312 BibTeX
Amit K. Chatterjee, Vijay K. Konangi: Modeling and Analysis of Multi Channel Asymmetric Packet Switch Modules in a Bursty and Non-Uniform Traffic Environment. 313-314 BibTeX
Gautam Shah, Umakishore Ramachandran, Richard Fujimoto: Timepatch: A Novel Technique for the Parallel Simulation of Multiprocessor Caches. 315-316 BibTeX
C. R. M. Sundaram, Derek L. Eager: Future Applicability of Bus-Based Shared Memory Multiprocessors. 317-318 BibTeX
Gianfranco Ciardo, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: Modeling A Fibre Channel Switch with Stochastic Petri Nets. 319-320 BibTeX
Meenakshi Arunachalam, Alok N. Choudhary, Brad Rullman: A Prefetching Prototype for the Parallel File System on the Paragon. 321-323 BibTeX