SIGMETRICS 1996: Philadelphia, PA, USA

1996 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., May 23-26, 1996, Proceedings. Performance Evaluation Review 24(1), May 1996

Scheduling

R. Gopalakrishnan, Guru M. Parulkar: Bringing Real-Time Scheduling Theory and Practice Closer for Multimedia Computing. 1-12 BibTeX
Mor Harchol-Balter, Allen B. Downey: Exploiting Process Lifetime Distributions for Dynamic Load Balancing. 13-24 BibTeX
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler: Effective Distributed Scheduling of Parallel Workloads. 25-36 BibTeX

Parallel Systems

Beng-Hong Lim, Ricardo Bianchini: Limits on the Performance Benefits of Multithreading and Prefetching. 37-46 BibTeX
Peter A. Dinda, David R. O'Hallaron: Fast Message Assembly Using Compact Address Relations. 47-56 BibTeX
Eric W. Parsons, Kenneth C. Sevcik: Coordinated Allocation of Memory and Processors in Multiprocessors. 57-67 BibTeX

Simulation

Emmett Witchel, Mendel Rosenblum: Embra: Fast and Flexible Machine Simulation. 68-79 BibTeX
Lawrence S. Brakmo, Larry L. Peterson: Experiences with Network Simulation. 80-90 BibTeX
Albert G. Greenberg, Scott Shenker, Alexander L. Stolyar: Asynchronous Updates in Large Parallel Systems. 91-103 BibTeX

Networks

Dimitrios Stiliadis, Anujan Varma: Design and Analysis of Frame-Based Fair Queuing: A New Traffic Scheduling Algorithm for Packet Switched Networks. 104-115 BibTeX
David J. Yates, Erich M. Nahum, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Networking Support for Large Scale Multiprocessor Servers. 116-125 BibTeX
Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Williamson: Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants. 126-137 BibTeX

Measurement and Monitoring

Margaret Martonosi, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich: Integrating Performance Monitoring and Communication in Parallel Computers. 138-147 BibTeX
Umesh Krishnaswamy, Isaac D. Scherson: Micro-Architecture Evaluation Using Performance Vectors. 148-159 BibTeX
Mark Crovella, Azer Bestavros: Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Causes. 160-169 BibTeX

Modeling and Analysis I

Bruce Hillyer, Abraham Silberschatz: On the Modeling and Performance Characteristics of a Serpentine Tape Drive. 170-179 BibTeX
Daniel A. Menascé, Odysseas I. Pentakalos, Yelena Yesha: An Analytic Model of Hierachical Mass Storage Systems with Network-Attached Storage Devices. 180-189 BibTeX
Ken Chen, Laurent Decreusefond: An Approximate Analysis of Waiting Time in Multi-Class M/G/1/./EDF Queues. 190-199 BibTeX

Video

Charu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu: On Optimal Piggyback Merging Policies for Video-on-Demand Systems. 200-209 BibTeX
Richard Gerber, Ladan Gharai: Experiments with Digital Video Playback. 210-221 BibTeX
James D. Salehi, Zhi-Li Zhang, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley: Supporting Stored Video: Reducing Rate Variability and End-to-End Resource Requirements through Optimal Smoothing. 222-231 BibTeX

Modeling and Analysis II

Elizabeth Varki, Lawrence W. Dowdy: Analysis of Balanced Fork-Join Queueing Networks. 232-241 BibTeX
Juan A. Carrasco, Javier Escribá, Angel Calderón: Efficient Exploration of Availability Models Guided by Failure Distances. 242-251 BibTeX
Sachin Garg, Yennun Huang, Chandra M. R. Kintala, Kishor S. Trivedi: Minimizing Completion Time of a Program by Checkpointing and Rejuvenation. 252-261 BibTeX

Extended Abstracts

Tracy Kimbrel, Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Anna R. Karlin, Kai Li: Integrating Parallel Prefetching and Caching. 262-263 BibTeX
Scott T. Leutenegger, Mario A. Lopez: A Buffer Model for Evaluating the Performance of R-Tree Packing Algorithms. 264-265 BibTeX
Joseph L. Hellerstein: An Approach to Selecting Metrics for detecting Performance Problems in Information Systems. 266-267 BibTeX
William V. Courtright II, Garth A. Gibson, Mark Holland, Jim Zelenka: RAIDframe: Rapid Prototyping for Disk Arrays. 268-269 BibTeX
Swaminathan Ramany, Derek L. Eager: Quantifying Achievable Routing Performance in Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks. 270-271 BibTeX
Steven Hotovy, David Schneider, Timothy J. O'Donnell: Analysis of the Early Workload on the Cornell Theory Center IBM SP2. 272-273 BibTeX