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21th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) 14-16 August 2013 San Francisco Marriott Union Square 80 Sutter Street San Francisco California 94108 USA ************************************************************************* MASCOTS will hold its annual meeting in San Francisco, CA, at the San Francisco Marriott Union Square hotel. The three-day technical program includes papers on a wide range of topics on measurement, modelling, and performance analysis of computer systems and networks, including new aspects of performance engineering such as cloud infrastructure, cloud services, mobile computing, and multimedia streaming, and more traditional ones such as memory systems, queuing theory, wireless networks, and workload characterisation. Please visit http://www.cvent.com/d/kcqy8s to register for MASCOTS 2013. Take advantage of early bird discount by registering by July 13, 2013. Preliminary Program for IEEE MASCOTS 2013: ************************************************************************* August 13, 2013 ************************************************************************* 16:00 17:30 Registration desk open 18:00 20:00 Reception ************************************************************************* August 14, 2013 ************************************************************************* 07:30 08:30 Registration desk open 08:30 08:45 Opening Remarks 08:45 09:45 Keynote address by David R Jefferson. Session 1: 09:45 10:45 Best paper candidates I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A VoD System for Massively Scaled, Heterogeneous Environments: Design and Implementation K. Lee, L. Yan, A. Parekh, and K. Ramchandran (UC Berkeley) Towards Machine Learning-Based Auto-tuning of MapReduce N. Yigitbasi, T. Willke, and G. Liao (Intel Labs) and D. Epema (Delft University of Technology) Session 2: 11:15 12:15 Best paper candidates II ------------------------------------------------------------------------- An offline demand estimation method for multi-threaded applications J. F. Perez (Imperial College London), S. Pacheco-Sanchez (SAP HANA Cloud Systems), and G. Casale (Imperial College London) On Optimal Policies for Energy-Aware Servers Authors: Vincent Maccio and Douglas Down (McMaster University) Session 3a: 13:30 15:00 Cloud infrastructure and services I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Self-tuning Batching with DVFS for Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency in Servers D. Cheng, Y. Guo, and X. Zhou (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) #221 Managing Network Reservation for Tenants in Oversubscribed Clouds M. Mishra (IIT Bombay, India) and P. Dutta, P. Kumar, and V. Mann (IBM Research, India) #180 Dynamic Balanced Configuration of Multi-Resources in Virtualized Clusters Y. Wei and C. Xu (Wayne State University) Session 3b: 13:30 15:00 Web performance ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #189 Making JavaScript Better By Making It Even Slower M. Swiech and P. Dinda (Northwestern University) #168 The Continued Evolution of Web Traffic B. Newton, K. Jeffay, and J. Aikat (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) HTTP adaptive streaming in mobile networks:characteristics and caching opportunities A. Gouta (Orange), D. Hong (N2NSoft), A. Kermarrec (Inria), and Y. Lelouedec (Orange) Session 4a: 15:30 17:00 Memory and storage systems I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAB: Parallelism-Aware Buffer Management Scheme for Nand-based SSDs X. Guo, J. Tan, and Y. Wang (Tsinghua University) LiU: Hiding Disk Access Latency for HPC Applications with a New SSD-Enabled Data Layout D. Huang (Ohio State University), X. Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), W. Shi (Tsinghua University), M. Zheng (Ohio State University), S. Jiang (Wayne State University), and F. Qin (Ohio State University) I/O Performance Modeling of Virtualized Storage Systems Q. Noorshams, K. Rostami, and S. Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), P. Tuma (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), and R. Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Session 4b: 15:30 17:00 Theory ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network of order independent queues with signals D. Ha and J. Fourneau (PRiSM, UVSQ, France) and T. Anh (LACL, UPEC, France) Improved Rate-Based Pull and Push Strategies in Large Distributed Networks W. Minnebo and B. V. Houdt (University of Antwerp) Autoreversibility: exploiting symmetries in Markov chains A. Marin and S. Rossi (University Ca¹ Foscari of Venice) 18:30 20:30 Banquet ************************************************************************* August 15, 2013 ************************************************************************* Session 5a: 08:30 10:00 Multimedia systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Zipf Models for Probabilistic Piece Selection in P2P Stored Media Streaming C. Williamson (University of Calgary) and N. Carlsson (Linkoping University) Camera Shooting Location Recommendations for Landmarks in Geo-Space Y. Zhang and R. Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Helping Hand or Hidden Hurdle: Proxy-assisted HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming Performance V. Krishnamoorthi and N. Carlsson (Linkoping University), D. Eager (University of Saskatchewan), A. Mahanti (NICTA), and N. Shahmehri (Linkoping University) Session 5b: 08:30 10:00 Memory and storage systems II ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploiting Spatial Locality to Improve Disk Efficiency in Virtualized Environments X. Ling (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), S. Ibrahim (INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique), and H. Jin, S. Wu, and S. Tao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Makespan-optimal cache partitioning P. Lai and R. Fan (Nanyang Technological University) Measuring and Analyzing Write Amplification Characteristics of Solid State Disks H. Sun and C. Xie (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and X. Qin (Auburn University) and F. Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Session 6a: 10:30 12:00 Cloud infrastructure and services II ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Improving the Revenue, Efficiency and Reliability in Data Center Spot Market: A Truthful Mechanism K. Song, Y. Yao, and L. Golubchik (University of Southern California) Carbon-aware Load Balancing for Geo-distributed Cloud Services Z. Zhou, F. Liu, Y. Xu, and R. Zou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), H. Xu (University of Toronto), J. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and H. Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Architecting Efficient Peak Power Shaving Using Batteries in Data Centers B. Aksanli (UCSD), E. Pettis (Google Inc.), and T. Rosing (UCSD) Session 6b: 10:30 12:00 Mobile computing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance and Energy Consumption of Lossless Compression/Decompression Utilities on Mobile Computing Platforms A. Milenkovic and A. Dzhagaryan (The University of Alabama in Huntsville) and M. Burtscher (Texas State University-San Marcos) #132 Introducing Geographic Restrictions to the SLAW Human Mobility Model Matthias Schwamborn and Nils Aschenbruck (University of Osnabrück Institute of Computer Science) GPP Vs DSP: A Performance/Energy Characterization and Evaluation of Video Decoding Y. Benmoussa (University of M¹hamed Bougara Boumerdes), J. Boukhobza (University of Western Britanny), E. Senn (University of South Britanny), and D. Benazzouz (University of M¹hamed Bougara Boumerdes) Session 7a: 13:15 15:00 Short papers I (15 minutes each) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Automatic Meter-Reading Simulation through Power Line Communication J. Matanza and S. Alexandres (Pontifical University of Comillas) and C. Rodriguez-Morcillo (Institute for Research in Technology) Transforming System Load to Throughput for Consolidated Applications A. Podzimek and L. Y. Chen (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) Effect of Latent Errors on the Reliability of Data Storage Systems V. Venkatesan and I. Iliadis (IBM Research Zurich) A Versatile Performance and Energy Simulation Tool for Composite GPU Global Memory B. Wang, Y. Jiao, and W. Yu (Auburn University), X. Shen (College William and Mary), and D. Li and Jeffrey S. Vetter (Oak Ridge National Lab) Path Extension Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Communications in 6LoWPAN/RPL Networks F. Melakessou and T. Engel (SnT, University of Luxembourg) A fix-and-relax model for heterogeneous LTE-based networks F. Malandrino, C. Casetti, and C. Chiasserini (DET, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy) Configuring Cloud Admission Policies under Dynamic Demand M. Unuvar, Y. Doganata, and A.Tantawi (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Session 7b: 13:15 15:00 Short papers II (15 minutes each) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analytic Models of Applications in Multi-core Computers D. Menasce and S. Bardhan (GMU) An approximate analysis of fluid queue networks A. J. Field, P. Harrison, and G. Jones (Imperial College London) Towards Improving MapReduce Task Scheduling Using Online Simulation Based Predictions G. Wang, A. Khasymski, Krish K. R., and A. R. Butt (Virginia Tech) Three-Dimensional Redundancy Codes for Archival Storage J. Paris (University of Houston), D. Long (University of California, Santa Cruz), and W. Litwin (Universite Paris-Dauphine) A Novel Simulation Methodology For Accelerating Reliability Assessment of SSDs L. Jiang (University of Virginia) and S. Gurumurthi (AMD Research and University of Virginia) Single-Snapshot File System Analysis A. Wildani, I. Adams, and E. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz) Spectrum Sensing with Receive Diversity for Cognitive Radio Operating over Wideband Channel T. An, I. Song, S. Lee, and H. Min (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) Session 8a: 15:30 17:15 Short papers III (15 minutes each) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analysis of a Simple Approach to Modeling Performance for Streaming Data Applications J. Beard and R. Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis) Revisiting Popularity Characterization and Modeling for User-generated Videos M. Islam and D. Eager (University of Saskatchewan), N. Carlsson (Linkoping University), and A. Mahanti (NICTA) ³The tail wags the dog²: A study of anomaly detection in commercial application performance R. Gow, S. Venugopal, and P. Ray (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) DeltaNC: Efficient File Updates for Network-Coding-Based Cloud Storage Systems M. Zakerinasab and M. Wang (University of Calgary) Detection and Root Cause Analysis of Memory-Related Software Aging Defects by Automated Tests F. Langner and A. Andrzejak (Heidelberg University) Characterization Analysis of Resource Utilization Distribution R. Birke and L. Chen (IBM Research Zurich Lab) and M. Gribaudo and P. Piazzolla (Politecnico di Milano) A Study of the Effect of Partitioning on Parallel Simulation of Multicore Systems Z. Dong, J. Wang, G. Riley, and S. Yalamanchili (Georgia Institute of Technology) Session 8b: 15:30 17:15 Short papers IV (15 minutes each) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the accuracy of trace replay methods for file system evaluation T. Pereira, L. Sampaio, and F. Brasileiro (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande) Modeling Anomalies Prevalent In Sensor Network Deployments: A Representative Ground Truth G. Abuaitah and B. Wang (Wright State University) Performance Analysis of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) A. Gelberger, N. Yemini, and R. Giladi (Department of Communication Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University Beer-Sheva, Israel) Channel and Receiver Contention in Circuit Switching Network J. Kim, Y. Jayabal, M. Razo, M. Tacca, and A. Fumagalli (UTDallas) Impact of Multi-Access Links on the Internet Topology Modeling M. Akgun and M. Gunes (University of Nevada Reno) Evaluating Approaches for Performance Prediction in Virtualized Environments F. Brosig, F. Gorsler, N. Huber, and S. Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Symbolic Solution of Kronecker-based Structured Markovian Models P. Fernandes and L. Lopes (PUCRS University) and S. Yeralan (University of Florida) ************************************************************************* August 16, 2013 ************************************************************************* Session 9a: 08:30 10:00 Cloud infrastructure and services III ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accelerating Batch Analytics with Residual Resources from Interactive Clouds R. Clay and Z. Shen (North Carolina State University) and X. Ma (North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Online Energy Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers M. Islam, Shaolei Ren, and G. Quan (Florida International University) Resource Estimation for Network Virtualization through Users and Network Interaction Analysis B. Wang (University of Southern California), Y.C. Tay (National University of Singapore), and L. Golubchik (University of Southern California) Session 9b: 08:30 10:00 Wireless networks I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capacity of simple MIMO wireless networks in uniform or fractal maps P. Jacquet (Bell Labs France) Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks L. Sun, W. Zheng, N. Rawat, V. Sawant, and D. Koutsonikolas (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Link-Quality Aware Object Replication and Placement for Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks Z. Al-Arnaout, Q. Fu, M. Frean, and J. Hart (Victoria University of Wellington) Session 10a: 10:30 12:00 Wireless networks II ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Towards Instruction Level Record and Replay of Sensor Network Applications L. Wan and Q. Cao (University of Tennessee) Synergistic Link Correlation-Aware and Network Coding-Based Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Network S. Iftekharul Alam, S. Sultana, Y. Hu, and S. Fahmy (Purdue University) A novel energy efficient broadcast leader election P. Jacquet (Bell Labs France), P. Muhlethaler (Inria France), and D. Milioris (Bell Labs France) Session 10b: 10:30 12:00 Tools and method I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overcoming Limitations of Off-the-shelf Priority Schedulers in Dynamic Environments F. Yan and S. Hughes (College of William and Mary), A. Riska (EMC Corporation), and E. Smirni (College of William and Mary) Validating Storage System Instrumentation I. Adams (UC Santa Cruz), M. Storer (NetApp), and A. Wildani, E. Miller, and B. Madden (UC Santa Cruz) Supporting Parallel Soft Real-Time Applications in Virtualized Environment L. Zhou, S. Wu, H. Sun, H. Jin, and X. Shi (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Session 11: 13:15 15:15 Tools and methods II ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introducing DVFS-Management in a Full-System Simulator V. Spiliopoulos (Uppsala University), A. Bagdia, A. Hansson, and P. Aldworth (ARM, Cambridge, UK), and S. Kaxiras (Uppsala University) On Modeling Low-Power Wireless Protocols Based on Synchronous Packet Transmissions M. Zimmerling and F. Ferrari (ETH Zurich), L. Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and Swedish Institute of Computer Science), and L. Thiele (ETH Zurich) DistCL: A Framework for the Distributed Execution of OpenCL Kernels T. Diop, S. Gurfinkel, J. Anderson, and N. Jerger (University of Toronto) Bayesian Service Demand Estimation Using Gibbs Sampling W. Wang and G. Casale (Imperial College London) 15:15 15:30 Closing remarks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. 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