SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006
	CONFERENCE SCHEDULE The main conference will take place at the Palais du Grand Large , Saint-Malo (walking distance from the walled town, see map )   WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30 Registration   9:00 Opening Remarks Achievement Award talk (R.R. Muntz) Invited Talk (Daniel Reed) 9:15 Paper 1 Paper 2 10:00 Coffee break 10:05   Coffee break 10:30 Paper 15 Paper 16 Paper 17 Paper 18 Paper 22 Paper 23 Paper 24 Paper 25 10:35 Paper 3 Paper 4 Paper 5 Paper 6 12:10 LUNCH HOUR 12:15 LUNCH HOUR 13:45 Paper 7 Paper 8 Paper 9 Paper 10 Paper 19 Paper 20 Paper 21 Paper 26 Paper 27 Paper 28 15:00 Posters +Coffee break Coffee break 15:25 Coffee break 15:30 Paper 29 Paper 30 16:00 Paper 11 Paper 12 Paper 13 Paper 14 16:20 Closing Remarks 16:30 Social Event

ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award Ceremony

Recipient: Prof. Richard R. Muntz, UCLA

INVITED TALK

Performance and Reliability: The Ubiquitous Challenge

Technical Program

Storage Systems (Wed. 9:15-10:05 AM)

Session chair: Arif Merchant

• Stardust: Tracking activity in a distributed storage system
  Eno Thereska (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Brandon Salmon (Carnegie Mellon University, US); John Strunk (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Matthew Wachs (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Michael Abd-El-Malek (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Julio Lopez (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Greg Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

• Exploiting Redundancy to Conserve Energy in Storage Systems
  Eduardo Pinheiro (Rutgers University, US); Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University, US); Cezary Dubnicki (NEC Research, US)

Wireless Networks (Wed. 10:35-12:15 AM)

Session chair: Cathy Xia

• Maximizing Throughput in Wireless Networks via Gossiping
  Eytan Modiano (MIT, US); Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Gil Zussman (MIT, US)

• Determining the End-to-end Throughput Capacity in Multi-Hop Networks: Methodolgy and Applications
  Yan Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); John Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK); Dah Ming Chiu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)

• Impacts of Channel Variability on Link-Level Throughput in Wireless Networks
  Can Emre Koksal (EPFL, CH); Patrick Thiran (EPFL, CH); Emre Telatar (EPFL, CH); Kyle Jamieson (MIT, US)

• Partially Overlapped Channels Not Considered Harmful
  Arunesh Mishra (University of Maryland, US); Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, US); William Arbaugh (University of Maryland, US)
  

Scheduling and Fairness (Wed. 13:45-15:25 PM)

Session chair: Murray Woodside

• GPS Scheduling: Selection of Optimal Weights and Comparison with Strict Priorities
  Pascal Lieshout (CWI, NL); Michel R.H. Mandjes (CWI, NL); Sem Borst (CWI, NL)
  

• The impact of reneging in processor sharing queues
  H. Christian Gromoll (Stanford University, US); Philippe Robert (INRIA, FR); Bert Zwart (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL); Richard Bakker (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
  

• Tail asymptotics for policies favoring short jobs in a many-flows regime
  Changwoo Yang (University of Texas at Austin, US); Adam Wierman (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin, US); Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
  

• On Light and Heavy Traffic Approximations of Balanced Fairness
  Thomas Bonald (France Telecom R&D, FR); Aleksi Penttinen (Helsinki University of Technology, FI); Jorma Virtamo (Helsinki University of Technology, FI)
  

Network Studies (Wed. 16:00-17:40 PM)

Session chair: John C.S. Lui

• NetQuest: A Flexible Framework for Large-Scale Network Measurement
  Hanhee Song (University of Texas at Austin, US); Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Yin Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, US)
  

• Robust Traffic Matrix Estimation with Imperfect Information: Making Use of Multiple Data Sources
  Qi Zhao (Georgia Inst. of Tech., US); Zihui Ge (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Jia Wang (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, US)
  

• Data Streaming Algorithms for Estimating Entropy of Network Traffic
  Ashwin Lall (University of Rochester, US); Vyas Sekar (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Rochester, US); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, US); Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
  

• On Suitability of Euclidean Embedding of Internet Hosts
  Sanghwan Lee (Kookmin University, KR); Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota, US); Sambit Sahu (IBM Research, US); Debanjan Saha (IBM T.J. Watson, US)
  

Queueing Systems and Markov Chains (Thur. 10:30-12:10 AM)

Session chair: Gerardo Rubino

• An Efficient Algorithm for the Exact Analysis of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Large Population Sizes
  Giuliano Casale (Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  

• Transient analysis of tree-like processes and its application to random access systems
  Jeroen Van Velthoven (University of Antwerp, BE); Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp, BE); Chris Blondia (University of Antwerp, BE)
  

• Bounding Stationary Results of Tandem Networks with MAP Input and PH Service Time Distributions
  Peter Buchholz (Universitaet Dortmund, DE)

• Fundamental Characteristics of Queues with Fluctuating Load
  Varun Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University, US), Uri Yechiali (Tel Aviv University, IL)
  

Systems and Architecture (Thur. 13:45-15:00 PM)

Session chair: Y.C. Tay

• Automatic Logging of Operating System and Multithreading Effects to Simplify Application-Level Architecture Simulation
  Satish Narayanasamy (UC San Diego, US); Cristiano Pereira (UC San Diego, US); Harish Patil (Intel, US); Robert Cohn (Intel, US); Brad Calder (UC San Diego, US)

• An Analytical Model for Cache Replacement Policy Performance
  Fei Guo (North Carolina State University, US); Yan Solihin (North Carolina State University, US)
  

• Understanding the Management of Client Perceived Response Time
  David Olshefski(IBM, US); Jason Nieh (Columbia University, US)
  

Statistics and Analysis of Systems and Networks (Fri. 10:30-12:10 AM)

Session chair: Peter Buchholz

• Confidence Intervals for Priority Sampling
  Mikkel Thorup (AT&T Labs - Research, US)
  

• Finding probably better system configurations quickly
  Takayuki Osogami (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, JP); Toshinari Itoko (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, JP)
  

• The Erlang model with sessions
  Thomas Bonald (France Telecom R&D, FR)
  

• On the Way to a Distributed Systems Calculus: An End-to-End Network Calculus with Data Scaling
  Markus Fidler (Aachen University, DE); Jens Schmitt (University of Technology, Kaiserslautern, DE)
  

Communication Architecture and Metrics (Fri. 13:45-15:00 PM)

Session chair: Yan Solihin

• Robust Network Connectivity: when it's the big picture that matters.
  Enoch Peserico (MIT, US); Larry Rudolph (MIT, US)
  

• Packet Classifiers in Ternary CAMs Can Be Smaller
  Qunfeng Dong (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, US); Jia Wang (AT&T Labs - Research, US); Dheeraj Agrawal (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Ashutosh Shukla (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
  

• Design of a Novel Statistics Counter Architecture with Optimal Space and Time Efficiency
  Qi Zhao (Georgia Inst. of Tech., US); Jun Xu (Georgia Tech, US); Zhen Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)
  

Security (Fri. 15:30-16:20 PM)

Session chair: Yin Zhang

• Fluid Modeling of Pollution Proliferation in P2P Networks
  Rakesh Kumar (Polytechnic University, US); David Yao (Columbia University, US); Amitabha Bagchi (IIT Delhi, IN); Keith Ross (Polytechnic University, US); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, US)
  

• High Speed Statistical Spam Filter by Approximate Classifications
  Kang Li (University of Georgia, US); Zhenyu Zhong (University of Georgia, US)
  

Poster Presentation (Thursday, June 29, 15:00-16:20 PM)

• QuickProbe: Available Bandwidth Estimation in Two Roundtrips
  George Kola (University of Wisconsin Madison, US); Mary Vernon (University of Wisconsin - Madison, US)
  
  
• Flexible Time-Windows for Advance Reservation in LambdaGrids
  Neena Kaushik (Santa Clara University, US); Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, US); Stephen Chiappari (Santa Clara University, US)
  
  
• Analyzing Persistent State Interactions to Improve State Management
  Chad Verbowski (Microsoft Research, US); Brad Daniels (Microsoft Research, US); Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, US); Shan Lu (University of Illinois at Urbana, US); Roussi Roussev (Florida Institute of Technology, US); Yi-Min Wang (Microsoft Research, US); Juhan Lee (Microsoft, US)
  
  
• Delay-Based Scheduling in Bandwidth-Sharing Networks
  Maaike Verloop (CWI, NL); Sem Borst (CWI, NL); Rudesindo Nunez-Queija (CWI, NL)
  
  
• Throughput Performance of Popular JMS Servers
  Michael Menth (University of Wuerzburg, DE); Robert Henjes (University of Wuerzburg, DE); Sebastian Gehrsitz (University of Wuerzburg, Informatik III, DE); Christian Zepfel (University of Wuerzburg, Informatik III, DE)
  
  
• Optimizing the HPCC Randomaccess Benchmark on BlueGene/L Supercomputer
  Rahul Garg (IBM India Research Lab, IN); Yogish Sabharwal (IBM India Research Lab, IN)
  
  
• Peer-to-peer Streaming of Stored Media: The Indirect Approach
  Tadeusz Piotrowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Sudeept Bhatnagar (NEC Labs, US); Samrat Ganguly (NEC Labs, US); Kelvin Xia (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US); Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, US); Rauf Izmailov (NEC Laboratories America, US)
  
  
• Analysis of a new Intra-Disk Redundancy Scheme for High-Reliability RAID Storage Systems in the Presence of Unrecoverable Errors
  Ajay Dholakia (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, CH); Evangelos Eleftheriou ( IBM, CH); Xiao-Yu Hu (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, CH); Ilias Iliadis (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, CH); Jai Menon (IBM Systems and Technology Group, San Jose, CA, US); KK Rao (IBM Research, Almaden Research Center, US)
  
  
• Applying Architectural Vulnerability Analysis to Hard Faults in the Microprocessor
  Fred Bower (IBM, Duke University, US); Derek Hower (Duke University, US); Mahmut Yilmaz (Duke University, US); Daniel Sorin (Duke University, US); Sule Ozev (Duke University, US)
  
  
• A Multicommodity Flow Model for Distributed Streaming Processing
  Cathy Xia (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); James Broberg (RMIT University, AU); Zhen Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Li Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)
  
  
• A Stochastic Model for the Rate of Non Persistent TCP Flows
  Francois Baccelli (INRIA-ENS, FR); David McDonald (University of Ottawa, CA)
  
  
• End-to-End Characterization of an Emerging Java-Based Commercial Workload on High-End Servers
  Ian Steiner (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US); Yefim Shuf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, US)
  
  
• Optimizing transmission rate in wireless channels using adaptive probes
  Sudipto Guha (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, US); Kamesh Munagala (Duke University, US); Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, US)
  
  
• Consolidating Clients on Back-end Servers with Co-location and Frequency Control
  Yiyu Chen (The Pennsylvania State University, US); Amitayu Das (The Penn State University, US); Qian Wang (The Penn State University, US); Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State, US); Richard Harper (IBM Research, US); Maurice Bland (IBM, US)
  
  
• Congestion Responsiveness of Internet Traffic (A fresh look at an old problem)
  Ravi Prasad (Georgia Tech, US); Constantinos Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, US)
  
  
• Deterministic Overlay Network Diagnosis
  Yao Zhao (Northwestern Univ, US); Yan Chen (Northwestern University, US); David Bindel (UC Berkeley, US)
  
  
• Modeling Adoptability of Secure BGP Protocols
  Haowen Chan (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Debabrata Dash (CMU, US); Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
  
  

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