See http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/sigmetrics2000/
Call for PARTICIPATION
ACM SIGMETRICS 2000
Santa Clara, California
June 17-21, 2000
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS
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Advance Program and Call For Participation
http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/sigmetrics2000/
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Important Dates
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May 21, 2000 End of early Conference/Workshop/Tutorial registration
June 9, 2000 Last day to register by mail or FAX. After this date
you may only register on-site
June 17-18, 2000 Tutorials and Workshops
June 19-21, 2000 Conference
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Tutorials
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"Storage Systems Management"
by Guillermo Alvarez, Kim Keeton, Arif Merchant, Erik Riedel, and John
Wilkes
"Group (Multicast) Communication in Wide-Area Networks"
by Don Towsley
"Deterministic Service Guarantees in Communication Networks"
by Cheng-Shang Chang
"E-Ticket Capacity Planning: How to Ride the E-Commerce Growth Curve"
by Neil Gunther
"Scalable Web Server Systems: Architectures, Models, and Load Balancing
Algorithms"
by Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Yu, and Valeria Cardellini
For more information, see
http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2000/tutorials/
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Workshops
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MAMA
The 2nd Workshop on MAthematical (performance) Modeling and Analysis
http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2000/mama2000/
PAWS
Performance and Architecture of Web Servers
http://kkant.ccwebhost.com/PAWS/
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Conference
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Monday, June 19, 2000
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8:30 - 8:45 Welcome
Alexandre Brandwajn, University of California, Santa Cruz, General Chair
Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Technical Program Co-Chair
Philippe Nain, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, Technical Program Co-Chair
Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin, Chair ACM Sigmetrics
8:45 - 10:15 Session 1: Network Architecture and Protocols.
Chair: Peter Drushel, Rice University
"A Case for EndSystem Multicast"
by Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay Rao, Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
"Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes"
by Arnaud Legout, Ernst W. Biersack, Institut EURECOM
"On Achievable Service Differentiation with Token Bucket Marking"
by Sambit Sahu, University of Massachusetts, Philippe Nain, INRIA
Sophia Antipolis, Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Christophe
Diot, Sprint ATL, Victor Firiou, Bay Archictecture Lab.
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:15 Session 2: Network Measurement and Performance Modeling.
Chair: Billy Stewart, North Carolina State University
"Measurement and Analysis of LDAP Performance"
by Xin Wang, Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, Dilip Kandlur,
Dinesh Verma, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"IP Packet Generation: Statistical Models for TCP Start Times Based on
Connection-Rate Superposition"
by William S. Cleveland, Dong Lin, Don X. Sun, Bell Laboratories
LucentTechnologies
"On the Impact of Soft Hand-off in Cellular Systems"
by Nidhi Hegde, Khosrow Sohraby, University of Missouri-Kansas City
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: File and Storage Systems.
Chair: Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts
"Evaluation of Desktop PCs as Candidates for a Serverless Distributed
File System"
by William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Microsoft Research, David Ely,
University of Washington, Marvin Theimer, Microsoft Research
"Comparing Random Data Allocation and Data Striping in Multimedia
Servers"
by Jose Renato Santos, Richard Muntz, UCLA, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto,
Federal University of Minas Gerais
"Modeling and Performance of MEMS-Based Storage Devices"
by John Linwood Griffin, Steven W. Schlosser, Gregory R. Ganger, David
F. Nagle, Carnegie Mellon University
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4: Web and Multimedia Servers.
Chair: Mor Harchol-Balter, CMU
"Implications of Proxy Caching for Provisioning Networks and Servers"
by Mohammad Salimullah Raunak, Prashant Shenoy, University of
Massachusetts, Pawan Goyal, Ensim Corporation, Krithi Ramamritham,
University of Massachusetts
"Collaborative Web Caching Based on Proxy Affinities"
by Jiong Yang, Wei Wang, IBM, Richard Muntz, UCLA
"Cluster Reserves: A Mechanism for Resource Management in Cluster-Based
Network Servers"
by Mohit Aron, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session (11 posters on display, on a walk-by basis,
with authors available for questions and discussion)
"Analysis of the phenomenon of several consecutive slow start phases in
TCP"
by Chadi Barakat, Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
"Providing Guaranteed Quality of Service for Interactive Visualization
Applications"
by Wai-Man R. Wong, Richard R. Muntz, UCLA
"IP Multicast Fault Recovery in PIM over OSPF"
by Xin Wang, Henning Schulzrinne, Chienming Yu, Columbia University,
Paul Stirpe, Wei Wu, Reuters
"Cell-based Multicast Grouping in Large-Scale Virtual Environments"
by Emmanuel Lety, Thierry Turletti, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Francois
Baccelli, INRIA/ENS
"Temporal Locality in Web Request Streams: Sources, Characteristics, and
Caching Implications"
by Azer Bestavros, Shudong Jin, Boston University
"Automated Disk Drive Characterization Jiri Schindler"
by Gregory Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
"Online Superpage Promotion Revisited"
by Zhen Fang, Lixin Zhang, Sally A. McKee, John B. Carter, Wilson C.
Hsieh, University of Utah
"An Inherently Loss-Less and Bandwidth Efficient Periodic Broadcast
Scheme for VBR Video" by Ioanis Nikolaidis, Fulu Li, University of
Alberta
"An Analysis of Short-Term Fairness in Wireless Media Access Protocols"
by Hari Balakrishnan, Hisham Kassab, Emre Koksal, MIT
"RESCU: Dynamic Hybrid Packet Loss Recovery for Video Transmission over
the Internet"
by Srinath R. Joshi, Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University
"The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Server"
by Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research, Lili Qiu, Cornell
University
Tuesday, June 20 2000
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9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address
Title: Beyond the Netherworld of Cyberspace
Leonard Kleinrock, Chairman and Founder, Nomadic Inc.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCLA
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 5: Networking: Congestion Control.
Chair: Zhen Liu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
"TCP in presence of Bursty Losses"
by Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, INRIA Sophia
Antipolis
"The Incremental Deployability of RTT-Based Congestion Avoidance for
High Speed TCP Internet Connections"
by Jim Martin, IBM, Arne Nilsson, Injong Rhee, North Carolina State
University
"Detecting Shared Congestion of Flows Via End-to-end Measurement"
by Dan Rubenstein, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Session 6: Queueing and Performance Evaluation Techniques
Chair: Ken Sevcik, University of Toronto
"Delay Asymptotics for a Priority Queueing System"
by Sanjay Shakkottai, R. Srikant, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
"A Fast and Accurate Iterative Solution of a Multi-Class
Threshold-based Queueing System with Hysteresis"
by Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland, John C.S. Lui, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong
"Using the Exact State Space of a Markov Model to Compute Approximate
Stationary Measures"
by Andrew S Miner, Gianfranco Ciardo, College of William and Mary,
Susanna Donatelli, Universita di Torino
"AMVA Techniques for High Service Time Variability"
by Derek L. Eager, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Daniel J. Sorin, Mary K.
Vernon, University of Wisconsin
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session 7: Tools and Benchmarking.
Chair: Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland
"Efficient Performance Prediction for Modern Microprocessors"
by David Ofelt, John Hennessy, Stanford University
"Improving Interactive System Performance Using TIPME"
Yasuhiro Endo, Network Appliance, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
"Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java
Virtual Machine"
by Jason Flinn, Carnegie Mellon University, Godmar Back, University of
Utah, Jennifer Anderson, Keith Farkas, Compaq's Western Research Lab.,
Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
19:00 Conference Banquet at Mirassou Champagne Cellars in Los Gatos
Wednesday, June 21 2000
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8:30 - 10:00 Session 8: Memory Management and Databases.
Chair: Dick Muntz, UCLA
"Memory System Behavior of Java Programs: Methodology and Analysis"
by Jin-Soo Kim, Seoul National University, Yarsun Hsu, IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center
"An Analytical Model of the Working-Set Sizes in Decision-Support
Systems"
by Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University, Fredrik Dahlgren, Ericsson, Per
Stenstroem, Chalmers University
"Towards Application/File-level Characterization of Block References: A
Case for Fine-Grained Buffer Management"
by Jongmoo Choi, Seoul National University, Sam H. Noh, Hong-Ik
University, Sang Lyul Min, Yookun Cho, Seoul National University
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 9: Network Routing.
Chair: Christophe Diot, Sprint ATL
"Multicast Routing with Bandwidth Guarantees: A New Approach Using
Multicast Network Flow"
by Murali S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Bell Laboratories Lucent
Technologies, Sudipta Sengupta, MIT
"Stable Internet Routing Without Global Coordination"
by Lixin Gao, Smith College, Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs Research
"An Efficient Algorithm for Finding a Path Subject to Two Additive
Constraints"
by Turgay Korkmaz, Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, Spyros
Tragoudas, University of Illinois
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Hotel Information
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The ACM SIGMETRICS 2000 conference will be held at:
The Marriott Hotel
2700 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, California, 95054
(800)228-9290 or (408)988-1500
http://www.marriotthotels.com/SJCGA
Conference attendees are responsible for handling their own hotel
reservations/payment. The Marriott will be providing us with a special
conference rate of $159.00 per night (double or single occupancy) for
the dates Saturday - June 17, 2000 - Tuesday - June 20, 2000.
Note: You must make your reservation before May 21, 2000 to receive the
$159.00 per night room rate. All reservations must be accompanied by a
first night room deposit, or guaranteed with a major credit card. Call
the Marriott Hotel directly at (800) 228-9290 or (408) 988-1500 to make
your reservations. Please mention that you are going to be attending
the ACM SIGMETRICS 2000 conference.
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Conference/Workshop/Tutorial Registration
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address above.
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will NOT be given after June 9, 2000.
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Organizing Committee
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General Chair:
Alexandre Brandwajn, U. California Santa Cruz
mailto:alexb@cse.ucsc.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
Jim Kurose, U. Massachusetts
mailto:kurose@cs.umass.edu
Philippe Nain, INRIA
mailto:nain@sophia.inria.fr
Tutorial Chair:
Leana Golubchik, U. Maryland
mailto:leana@cs.umd.edu
Local Arrangements Chair:
Stacey Rodell, U. California Santa Cruz
mailto:stacey@cse.ucsc.edu
Finance Chair:
Mel Boksenbaum, Hitachi Data Systems
mailto:boksenbaum@hdshq.com
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Thomas Bonald, France Telecom R&D
mailto:Thomas.Bonald@francetelecom.fr
Anil Sahai, Performance Vision
mailto:aksahai@pacbell.net
Proceedings Chair:
Prashant Shenoy, U. Massachusetts
mailto:shenoy@cs.umass.edu
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Technical Program Committee
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Rajeev Agrawal, University of Wisconsin
Hari Balakrishnan, MIT
Ernst Biersack, Eurecom
Sem Borst, CWI
Lee Breslau, AT&T Research
Mark Crovella, Boston University
Peter Druschel, Rice University
Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan
Sally Floyd, ACIRI
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology
Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland
Mor Harchol Balter, CMU
Phil Heidelberger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University
Ger Koole, Free University of Amsterdam
Ed Knightly, Rice University
Jim Kurose, Program Committee Co-Chair, University of Massachusetts
TV Lakshman, Lucent Bell Labs
Jorg Leibeherr, University of Virginia
Zhen Liu, INRIA
Raymond Marie, IRISA
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
Richard Muntz, UCLA
Philippe Mussi, INRIA
Philippe Nain, Program Committee Co-Chair, INRIA
David Nicol, Dartmouth
Brigitte Plateau, IMAG
KK Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research
Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs Research
Ken Sevcik, University of Toronto
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts
J.P. Singh, Princeton University
Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
William J. Stewart, North Carolina State University
Leandros Tassiulas, University of Maryland
Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin
Randy Wang, Princeton University
Carey Williamson, University of Saskatchewan
Uri Yechiali, Tel Aviv University
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota
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