List of Alma Riska's publications

Storage Subsystems

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel, "Efficient Management of Idleness in Storage Systems", to appear in ACM Transactions on Storage. PDF

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "Disk Drive Logs Collected during the Field Return Incoming Test", to appear in Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Analysis of System Logs (WASL), co-located with OSDI, San Diego, CA, December 2008. PDF

Michael Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "Characterization of the Storage Subsystem Workload under E-commerce Applications", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), pages 385-394, San Malo, France, September 2008. PDF

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "Idle Read After Write - IRAW", in Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, pages 43-56, Boston, MA, June 2008. PDF

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel, "Enhancing Data Availability through Background Activities", in Proceedings of the Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 492-501, Anchorage, AK, June 2008 PDF

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, E. Smirni, "Performance-Guided Load (Un)balancing under Autocorrelated Flows", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 19, No. 5, pages 652-665, 2008. PDF

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel, "Performance impacts of autocorrelated flows in multi-tiered systems", Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 64, No. 9-12, pages 1082-1101, 2007. PDF

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel, "Efficient management of idleness in systems", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS, extended abstract, pages 371-372, June 2007. PDF

Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel, "Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path", in Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, pages 247-260, June 2007. PDF

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "Long-range dependence at the disk drive level", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), pages 41-50, Riverside, CA, September 2006. PDF

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "Storage performance virtualization via throughput and latency control", in ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 2, No. 6, pages 283-308, August 2006. PDF

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni. "Evaluating performability of systems with background jobs", in Proceedings of The Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 495-505, Philadelphia, June 2006. PDF

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel. "Disk Drive Level workload Characterization", in Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference , Boston, pages 97-103, June 2006. PDF

Jianyong Zhang, Alma Riska, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel, "Storage Performance virtualization via Throughput and Latency Control", in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pages 135-142, Atlanta, September 2005. PDF

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel "Workload Propagation - Overload in bursty servers" , in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, (QEST) pages 179-188, Torino Italy, September 2005. PDF.

Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel, "An Interposed 2-Level I/O Scheduling Framework for Performance Virtualization", in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, extended abstract, pages 406-407, Banff, Canada, June 2005. PDF.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel "Bottleneck Identification in E-commerce Systems" , in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, (WCW), pages 273-282, Beijing, China, October 2004. PDF.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Sami Iren "Adaptive disk scheduling for overload management" , in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, (QEST), pages 176-186, The Netherlands, September, 2004. PDF.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, "It's Not Fair - Evaluating Efficient Disk Scheduling" , in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Similation of Computer Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS), pages 288-295, Orlando, FL, October 2003. PDF.

Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Sami Iren "Managing Overload Via Adaptive Scheduling" , in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Algorithms and Architecture for Self-Managing Systems, pages 23-24, San-Diego, CA, June 2003 PDF.

Load balancing on clustered Web servers

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni. "Load Balancing for Performance Differentiation in Dual-Priority Clustered Servers", in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), pages 385-394, Riverside, CA, September 2006. PDF.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni. "Load Unbalancing to improve performance under autocorrelated traffic", in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006. PDF.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo, "Workload-aware load balancing for clustered Web servers" , IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 16, No 3, pages 219-233, March 2005. PDF.

Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo, "AdaptLoad: effective balancing in clustered web servers under transient load conditions" , in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS), pages 104-112, Vienna, Austria, July 2002. PDF.

Gianfranco Ciardo, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "EquiLoad: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers" , Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 46, pages 101-124, 2001. PDF.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo, "Analytic Modeling of Load Balancing Policies with Heavy-tailed Distributions", in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software and Performance, pages: 147-157, Otawa, Canada, September 2000. PDF.

Matrix-analytic methods

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "Exact Aggregate Solutions for Infinite Markov Processes with Repetitive Structure", in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 19, No. 2, pages 215-228, Sprintg 2007 PDF.

Andreas Stathopoulos, Alma Riska, Zhili Hua, Evgenia Smirni, "Bridging ETAQA and Ramaswami's formula for the solution of M/G/1/ Processes", Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1-4, pages 331-348, September 2005. PDF.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo, "Exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type performability models", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 53, Number 2, pages 238-249, June 2004. (a shorter version appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 31, Issue 2, pages 28-30). PDF.

Gianfranco Ciardo, Weizhen Mao, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "ETAQA-MG1: An efficient technique for the analysis of a class of M/G/1-type processes by aggregation", Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 57, Issue 3, pages 235-260, 2004. PDF.

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, and Evgenia Smirni, "Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into phase-type distributions" , Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 55, pages 147-164, 2004 (a shorter version appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pages 6-8). PDF.

Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, and Evgenia Smirni, "Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into hyperexponential distributions" , in the Proceedings of the IEEE Internet Performance Symposium (GlobeCom 2002), IEEE Catalog Number 02CH37398C, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002. PDF.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "M/G/1-type processes: A tutorial" , in M. Calzarossa and S. Tucci (editors) Performance Evaluation of Complex Computer Systems; Techniques and Tools, LNCS 2459, pages 36-63, Springer-Verlag, 2002. PDF.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "Exact aggregate solutions for M/G/1-type Markov processes" , in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS'02 , pages 86-89, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2002. PDF.

Alma Riska, Mark Squillante, Shun-Zheng Yu, Zhen Liu, Li Zhang, "Matrix-Analytic Analysis of a MAP/PH/1 Queue fitted to web server data" , in "Matrix-Analytic Methods: Theory and Applications" G. Latouche and P. Taylor (editors), pages 335-356, World Scientific, Adelaide, Australia, July 2002. PDF.

Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "MAMSolver: A matrix-analytic methods tool" , in the Proceedings of the 12-th International Conference on Modeling Techniques and Tools for Computer and Communication Systems Performance Evaluation, T. Field et al. (editors), LNCS 2324, pages 205-211, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, April 2002. PDF.

Gianfranco Ciardo, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, "An aggregation solution method for M/G/1-type processes", in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Numerical solution of Markov Chains, pages 21-40, Zaragoza, Spain, September 1999. PDF.

Memory system susceptibility to transient errors

A. Messer, P.Bernadat, G. Fu, D. Chen, Z. Dimitrijevic, D. Lie, D. Mannaru, Alma Riska, D. Milojicic, "Susceptibility of Commodity Systems and Software to Memory Soft Errors", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 53, No 12, pages 1557-1568, Dec. 2004. PDF.

D. Chen, A. Messer, P.Bernadat, G. Fu, Z. Dimitrijevic, D. Lie, D. Mannaru, Alma Riska, D. Milojicic, "JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors", in Proceedings of the USENIX Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, pages 67-78, Monterey, CA, April 2001. PDF.