SIGMETRICS 1995: Ottawa, Canada

Multiprocessors

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

Multimedia Servers

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

Hot Topics

• Carey L. Williamson, Walter Willinger, Vern Paxson, Benjamin Melamed:
  Network Traffic Measurement and Modelling (Panel). 56-57
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  

Fault Tolerance

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

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
  
• Edward W. Knightly, Dallas E. Wrege, Jörg Liebeherr, Hui Zhang:
  Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs of Providing Deterministic Guarantees to VBR Video Traffic. 98-107
  

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
  
• Sem C. Borst:
  Optimal Probabilistic Allocation of Customer Types to Server. 116-125
  
• Ibrahim Matta, A. Udaya Shankar:
  Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems. 126-135
  

Disk Systems

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

Cache Performance

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

Memory and Parallel Systems

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

Stochastic Systems

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

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
  
• Kishor S. Trivedi, Andrea Bobbio, Miklós Telek, Reinhard German, Gianfranco Ciardo, Antonio Puliafito:
  Non-Markovian Petri Nets (Panel). 263-264
  
• 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
  

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
  
• Jussi Myllymaki, Miron Livny:
  Disk-Tape Joins: Synchronizing Disk and Tape Access. 279-290
  
• Vidyadhar Phalke, B. Gopinath:
  An Inter-Reference Gap Model for Temporal Locality in Program Behavior. 291-300
  

Extended Abstracts

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