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MASCOTS 2007 - Final Program

 

 

 

 

15'th Annual Meeting of the IEEE / ACM International Symposium

on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of

Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 24-26, 2007

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

 

 

 

 

http://www.mascots-conference.org/
mascots @cmpe.boun.edu.tr
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/mascots07/

 

 

Day 1

October 24, 2007 Wednesday

Time

Room Asia

Room Europe

09:00-10:00

Opening Remarks:

Fatih Alagöz, Local Organization Committee, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

M. Ufuk Çağlayan, Tony Field, Program Chairs, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and Imperial College, London

Erol Gelenbe, Conference Chair, Imperial College, London

Keynote Lecture: Peter Harrison, Imperial College, London, Approaches to Handling Exploding State Spaces

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Session 1-1: Performance of Wireless/Sensor Networks – (Alagöz)

  • P. S. Sausen, J. R. Sousa, M. A. Spohn, A. Perkusich, A. M. N. Lima, Dynamic Power Management with Scheduled Switching Modes in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • François Ingelrest, Nathalie Mitton and David Simplot-Ryl, A Turnover based Adaptive HELLO Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Arunchandar Vasan, A. Udaya Shankar, Timestepped Stochastic Simulation of 802.11 WLANs
  • Yu Dong, Wing-Kai Hon, David K. Y. Yau and Jren-Chit Chin, Distance Reduction in Mobile Wireless Communication: Lower Bound Analysis and Practical Attainment

Session 1-2: Applications and Tools – 1 (Riley)

  • Walter A. Burkhard, Efficient External Table Reordering
  • Georgios Kastaniotis, Elias Maragos, Vasileios Dimitsas, Christos Douligeris, Dimitris K. Despotis, Web Proxy Caching Object Replacement: Frontier Analysis to Discover the Good-Enough Algorithms
  • Novella Bartolini, Giancarlo Bongiovanni, Simone Silvestri, An autonomic admission control policy for distributed web systems
  • Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan and Jesus Labarta, Modeling the impact of resource sharing in Backfilling Policies using the Alvio Simulator

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

14:00-15:30

Session 1-3: Performance of Wireless/Sensor Networks – 2 (Tuğcu)

  • Despina Triantafyllidou and Khaldoun Al Agha, Evaluation of TCP Performance in MANETs using an Optimized Scalable Simulation Model
  • Nitya Sundareswaran, George F.Riley, Ken Boyd, Improving Quality of Service in MAC 802.11 Layer
  • Dheeraj Reddy and George Riley,Measurement--Based Physical Layer Modeling for Wireless Network Simulations

Session 1-4: Computer Systems (Levi)

  • Xiaolong Jin and Geyong Min, Queue Length Distribution and Loss probability of Generalized Processor Sharing Systems under Multi-Class Self-Similar Traffic
  • Melhem Tawk, Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Smail Niar, Adaptive Sampling for Efficient MPSoC Architecture Simulation
  • Andrzej Kochut, Kirk Beaty, On Strategies for Dynamic Resource Management in Virtualized Server Environments

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:00-18:00

Session 1-5: Performance and Methodology – 1 (Çağlayan)

  • Rukma P. Verlekar, Varsha Apte, Prakhar Goyal, Bhavish Agarwal, PerfCenter: A Methodology and Tool for Performance Analysis of Application Hosting Centers
  • Enrique Hernandez-Orallo, Joan Vila-Carbo, Network Performance Analysis based on Histogram Workload Models
  • Jing Fu, Olof Hagsand and Gunnar Karlsson, Queueing Behavior and Packet Delays in Network Processor Systems
  • Jonatha Anselmi, Giuliano Casale, Paolo Cremonesi, Approximate Solution of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Region Constraints

Session 1-6: Parallel and Distributed Systems (Özturan)

  • Edi Shmueli, Dror G. Feitelson,Uncovering the Effect of System Performance on User Behavior from Traces of Parallel Systems
  • Georges Da Costa, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Salvatore Orlando, Nine months in the life of EGEE: a look from the South
  • Andreolini Mauro, Casolari Sara, Colajanni Michele, Trend-based load balancer for a multi-tier distributed system
  • Francesco Lelli, Gaetano Maron, Salvatore Orlando, Client Side Estimation of a Remote Service Execution

18:30

Reception and Dinner, Kennedy Lodge



Day 2

October 25, 2007 Thursday

Time

Room Asia

09:00-10:00

Keynote Lecture:

Gilles Bernot, Polytechnic of Nice School of Engineering & University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, A Discrete Approach to Model Biological Gene Regulatory Networks and the Use of Temporal Logic to Propose Wet Experiments

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Session 2-1: Performance of Wireless/Sensor Networks -3 (Field)

  • Renato M. de Moraes, Fagner P. de Araujo, Modeling Interference in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  • Deniz Çokuslu, Kayhan Erciyeş, A Hierarchical Connected Dominating Set Based Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
  • Marwen Abdennebi and Samir Tohme, Design and Analysis of a WiMAX Mesh Based Cellular Radio Access Network
  • Pinar Sarisaray, Gurkan Gur, Sebnem Baydere and Emre Harmanci, Performance Comparison of Error Compensation Techniques with Multipath Transmission in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:30

Session 2-3: Performance of Wireless/Sensor Networks -4 (Alagöz)

  • Nicos Gollan, Jens Schmitt, Energy-Efficient TDMA Design Under Real-Time Constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Jia Hu, Geyong Min, Mike E Woodward, Performance Modelling of IEEE 802.11e Contention Free Bursting Scheme with Heterogeneous Stations
  • Shamim Begum, Sandeep Gupta, Ahmed Helmy, Performance analysis of Wireless MAC Protocols using a Search based Framework.

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-18:00

Session 2-5: Performance and Methodology - 2 (Karatza)

  • Dan Tsafrir, Keren Ouaknine, and Dror G. Feitelson, Reducing Performance Evaluation Sensitivity and Variability by Input Shaking
  • Arno Moonen, Marco Bekooij, Rene van den Berg, Jef van Meerbergen, Practical and Accurate Throughput Analysis with the Cyclo Static Dataflow Model
  • Qi Zou, PSOS: A Novel Protocol Simulation Platform for Satellite Networks
  • Parijat Dube, Hao Yu, Li Zhang, Jose E. Moreira, Performance Evaluation of a Commercial Application, Trade, in Scale-out Environments

Day 2

October 25, 2007 Thursday

Time

Room Europe

09:00-10:00

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:30

 

10:30-12:30

Session 2-2: Applications and Tools – 2 (Karatza)

  • Antonis Papadogiannakis, Demetres Antoniades, Michalis Polychronakis, and Evangelos P. Markatos, Improving the Performance of Passive Network Monitoring Applications using Locality Buffering
  • Humberto T. Marques-Neto, Virgilio A. F. Almeida, Jussara M. Almeida, Pricing Broadband Internet Adaptive Services
  • Yusuke Sakumoto, Ryouta Asai, Hiroyuki Ohsaki and Makoto Imase, Design and Implementation of Flow-Level Simulator for Performance Evaluation of Large Scale Networks
  • Naser Sedaghati-Mokhtari, Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi and Sied Mehdi Fakhraie, MDST: Multiprocessor DSP Simulation Toolkit for Voice Processing Applications

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:30

Session 2-4: Computer Networks – 1 (Field)

  • Ashok Khanal, Bahman S Motlagh, Taskin Kocak, Improving the Efficiency of Spam Filtering through Cache Architecture
  • Wei Li and Andrew W. Moore, A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Traffic Classification
  • Xiaoyu Yang, Yiming Hu, Search Enhanced by Distributed Semantic Clustering in Gnutella-like P2P Systems

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session 2-6: Computer Networks – 2 (Akar)

  • Grigorios Zachariadis, Javier A. Barria, Load distribution for telecommunications networks using revenue management
  • Nail Akar, Model-free Adaptive Hysteresis for Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation
  • Hao Wang, Dave Laurenson and Jane Hillston, PEPA Analysis of MAP Effects in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

 


Day 3

October 26, 2007 Friday

Time

Room Asia

Room Europe

09:00-10:00

Session 3-1: Performance and Methodology – 3 (Alagöz)

  • Ram Chakka, Enver Ever, Orhan Gemikonakli, Joint-State Modelling for Open Queuing Networks with Breakdowns, Repairs and Finite Buffers
  • Stefan Penz, Wireless Multicast Support for the NS-2 Emulation Environment

Session 3-2: Storage Systems (Çağlayan)

  • Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, Reducing Hybrid Disk Write Latency with Flash-Backed I/O Requests
  • Dong In Shin, Young Jin Yu, and Heon Y. Yeom, Shedding Light in the Black-Box : Structural Modeling of Modern Disk Drives

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Session 3-3: Optical Networks (Oktuğ)

  • F. Hormozdiari, A. Rajabi, A. Khonsari, Mathematical Analysis of Delay Line to Wavelength Allocation Algorithms in Optical Networking
  • Yoong Cheah Huei, Pung Hung Keng and Nikolai Krivulin, Average Network Blocking Probabilities for TDM WDM Optical Networks with OTSIs and without WC
  • Oto Pobiecky, Ivan Kotuliak, Daniel Popa, Tulin Atmaca, Gerard Hebuterne, LOCOMOTIVE: A Hybrid Access Protocol for Bus-Based Passive Optical Networks
  • Poul E. Heegaard and Werner Sandmann, Efficient Simulation of Optical Ring Networks with Intermittent Transceiver Faults

Session 3-4: Computer Networks – 3 (Gelenbe)

  • Erol Gelenbe, Michael Gellman, Can Routing Oscillations be Good? The benefits of route-switching in self-aware networks
  • Jung Ha Hong and Khosrow Sohraby, On the Asymptotic Analysis of Packet Aggregation Systems
  • Daniel Popa, Joanna Tomasik, On Markov Chain Modelling of Asynchronous Optical CSMA/CA Protocol
  • F. Lo Presti, C. Petrioli, C. Vicari, Distributed Dynamic Replica Placement and Request Redirection in Content Delivery Networks

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

14:00-15:30

 

 

 

14:00-16:00

(Session 3-6)

Session 3-5: Performance of Wireless/Sensor Networks – 5 (Ersoy)

  • Cristiana Gomes and Gurvan Huiban, Multiobjective Analysis in Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Petr Jurcík, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar, Zdenek Hanzálek, A Simulation Model for the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol: Delay/Throughput Evaluation of the GTS Mechanism
  • Rabun Koşar, Cem Ersoy, Enhancing The Performance of Nonuniformly Deployed Sensor Network by Locating Bottleneck Areas for Partial Redeployment

Session 3-6: Computer Networks – 4 (Atmaca)

  • Hind Castel, Lynda Mokdad, Nihal Pekergin, Stochastic bounds applied to the end to end QoS in communication systems
  • Mohammad S. Talebi, Fahimeh Jafari, Ahmad Khonsari, A Novel Flow Control Scheme for Best Effort Traffic in NoC Based on Source Rate Utility Maximization
  • Muhammad Abdulla and Robert Simon, Analysis of Core-Assisted Routing in Opportunistic Networks
  • Yulei Wu, Geyong Min, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, HaoYin, An Analytical Model for Torus Networks in the Presence of Hot-Spot Traffic with Batch Arrivals

End of the Symposium