MASCOTS 2003: Orlando, FL, USA

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/mascots/2003,
  title     = {11th International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
               of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2003), 12-15
               October 2003, Orlando, FL, USA},
  booktitle = {MASCOTS},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year      = {2003},
  isbn      = {0-7695-2039-1},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Keynote Speech

• Mariacarla Calzarossa:
  Perf: An Ongoing Research Project on Performance Evaluation. 2-
  

Workload Characterisation

• Zachary Kurmas, Kimberly Keeton, Kenneth Mackenzie:
  Synthesizing Representative I/O Workloads Using Iterative Distillation. 6-15
  
• Félix Hernández-Campos, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith:
  Tracking the Evolution of Web Traffic: 1995-2003. 16-25
  
• Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Franck Quessette:
  Using Linear Regression to Characterize Data Coherency Traffic. 26-
  

Mobile Devices and Optical Networks

• Fengzhou Zheng, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Chi Zhang, Russell E. Joseph, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang:
  Considering the Energy Consumption of Mobile Storage Alternatives. 36-45
  
• Jacob R. Lorch, Alan Jay Smith:
  Using User Interface Event Information in Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithms. 46-55
  
• Mounire El Houmaidi, Mostafa A. Bassiouni:
  k-Weighted Minimum Dominating Sets for Sparse Wavelength Converters Placement under Non-uniform Traffic. 56-
  

Network Performance Simulation

• Xenofontas A. Dimitropoulos, George F. Riley:
  Creating Realistic BGP Models. 64-70
  
• Qi He, Mostafa H. Ammar, George F. Riley, Himanshu Raj, Richard Fujimoto:
  Mapping Peer Behavior to Packet-level Details: A Framework for Packet-level Simulation of Peer-to-Peer Systems. 71-78
  
• Hema Tahilramani Kaur, Tao Ye, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Kenneth S. Vastola:
  Minimizing Packet Loss by Optimizing OSPF Weights Using Online Simulation. 79-
  

Storage Systems I

• Ming Zhang, Qing Yang, Xubin He:
  SPEK: A Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel Module for Block Level Storage Systems. 88-95
  
• Jun Wang, Dong Li:
  A Light-weight, Temporary File System for Large-scale Web Servers. 96-103
  
• Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Karen A. Glocer, Zachary N. J. Peterson:
  Zone-Based Shortest Positioning Time First Scheduling for MEMS-Based Storage Devices. 104-
  

Keynote Speech

• Richard M. Fujimoto, Kalyan S. Perumalla, Alfred Park, Hao Wu, Mostafa H. Ammar, George F. Riley:
  Large-Scale Network Simulation: How Big? How Fast? 116-
  

Web Server Performance

• Mingwei Gong, Carey L. Williamson:
  Quantifying the Properties of SRPT Scheduling. 126-135
  
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Christos Papadopoulos, Parikshit Pol, Runfang Zhou:
  NAM: A Network Adaptable Middleware to Enhance Response Time of Web Services. 136-
  

Keynote Speech

• Bernard P. Zeigler:
  DEVS Today: Recent Advances in Discrete Event-Based Information Technology. 148-
  

Wireless and Mobile Networks

• Khalid Al-Begain, Irfan Awan:
  Modelling Differentiated Services in UMTS Networks. 164-171
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Harold Owens II:
  Performance Evaluation of Packet Scheduling and Synchronization Algorithms for Wireless Multimedia Systems. 172-
  

Tool Papers

• Ravi R. Iyer:
  On Modeling and Analyzing Cache Hierarchies using CASPER. 182-187
  
• Marco Bernardo:
  TwoTowers 3.0: Enhancing Usability. 188-193
  
• Leonardo Brenner, Paulo Fernandes, Afonso Sales:
  MQNA - Markovian Queueing Networks Analyser. 194-199
  
• Arkaitz Bitorika, Mathieu Robin, Meriel Huggard:
  An Evaluation Framework For Active Queue Management Schemes. 200-206
  
• Gunar Schorcht, Ian A. Troxel, Keyvan Farhangian, Peter Unger, Daniel Zinn, Colin K. Mick, Alan D. George, Horst Salzwedel:
  System-Level Simulation Modeling with MLDesigner. 207-212
  
• Shashidhar Merugu, Sridhar Srinivasan, Ellen W. Zegura:
  p-sim: A Simulator for Peer-to-Peer Networks. 213-218
  
• Jean-Michel Fourneau, Mathieu Le Coz, Nihal Pekergin, Franck Quessette:
  An open tool to compute stochastic bounds on steady-state distributions and rewards. 219-
  

Short Papers

• Michele C. Weigle, Kevin Jeffay, F. Donelson Smith:
  Quantifying the Effects of Recent Protocol Improvements to Standards-Track TCP. 226-229
  
• Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo:
  Profit-driven Service Differentiation in Transient Environments. 230-233
  
• Novella Bartolini, Emiliano Casalicchio, Salvatore Tucci:
  Optimal Mobility-aware Admission Control in Content Delivery Networks. 234-237
  
• Ioannis Charitakis, Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Evangelos P. Markatos:
  An Active Traffic Splitter Architecture for Intrusion Detection. 238-241
  
• Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becker, Jeffrey S. Chase, Amin Vahdat:
  Toward Scaling Network Emulation using Topology Partitioning. 242-245
  
• Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long:
  Managing Flash Crowds on the Internet. 246-249
  
• Lance Titchkosky, Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Williamson:
  Performance Benchmarking of Dynamic Web Technologies. 250-253
  
• Joanna Tomasik, Ivan Kotuliak, Tülin Atmaca:
  Markovian Performance Analysis of a Synchronous Optical Packet Switch. 254-
  

Internet Performance

• Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros:
  Small-World Characteristics of the Internet and Multicast Scaling. 260-268
  
• Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Jörgen Olsén:
  A Unified Framework for Modeling TCP-Vegas, TCP-SACK, and TCP-Reno. 269-278
  
• Krishna Pandit, Jens Schmitt, Martin Karsten, Ralf Steinmetz:
  Bottleneck Estimation for Load Control Gateways. 279-
  

Storage Systems II

• Alma Riska, Erik Riedel:
  It's not fair - evaluating efficient disk scheduling. 288-295
  
• Elizabeth Varki, Arif Merchant, Jianzhang Xu, Xiaozhou Qiu:
  An integrated performance model of disk arrays. 296-305
  
• Yingwu Zhu, Yiming Hu:
  Disk Built-in Caches: Evaluation on System Performance. 306-
  

Web Proxies

• Bruno Ciciani, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano, Daniel M. Dias:
  Analysis of Design Alternatives for Reverse Proxy Cache Providers. 316-323
  
• Gwen Houtzager, Carey L. Williamson:
  A Packet-Level Simulation Study of Optimal Web Proxy Cache Placement. 324-
  

Distributed and Cluster Computing

• Jemal H. Abawajy, Sivarama P. Dandamudi:
  Scheduling Parallel Jobs with CPU and I/O Resource Requirements in Cluster Computing Systems. 336-343
  
• Jeremy T. Bradley, Nicholas J. Dingle, Stephen T. Gilmore, William J. Knottenbelt:
  Derivation of Passage-time Densities in PEPA Models using ipc: the Imperial PEPA Compiler. 344-