IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2008

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

September 8-10, 2008

***** PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM *****

Monday, September 8

Tuesday, September 9

Wednesday, September 10

Papers: Monday, September 8

Session 1: Enterprise Systems (10:30am-noon)

• Profiling, Prediction, and Capping of Power Consumption in Consolidated Environments
  Jeonghwan Choi, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam (Pennsylvania State University)
• On Impact of Dynamic Virtual Machine Reallocation on Data Center Efficiency
  Andrzej Kochut (IBM Research)
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Information Extraction in Real-World Storage Management
  Aameek Singh, Sandeep Uttamchandani (IBM Almaden Research Center), and Yin Wang (University of Michigan)

Session 2A: Performance Modeling, Methodology, and Applications (1:30-3:00pm)

• Runtime Prediction Models for Internet-based Systems
  Sara Casolari, Mauro Andreolini, Michele Colajanni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
• A Performance Model of Multi-Version Concurrency Control
  Pierangelo di Sanzo, Bruno Ciciani, Francesco Quaglia (Universita di Roma La Sapienza), and Paolo Romano (INESC-ID)
• Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less
  Risi Thonangi, Vamsidhar Thummala, and Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

Session 2B: Data Dissemination Models (1:30-3:00pm)

• Multi-Torrent: A Performance Study
  Yan Yang, Alix L.H. Chow, and Leana Golubchik (University of Southern California)
• Optimal Layered Multicast with Network Coding: Mathematical Model and Empirical Studies
  Ajay Gopinathan and Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)
• Controlled Epidemic Routing Schemes for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks
  Muhammad Abdulla and Robert Simon (George Mason University)

Session 3: Storage and Energy Management (3:30-5:00pm)

• Sensitivity Based Power Management of Enterprise Storage Systems
  Sriram Sankar, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, and Mircea Stan (University of Virginia)
• An Analysis of Hard Drive Energy Consumption
  Anthony Hylick, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, and Brian Jones (University of Cambridge)
• GRAID: A Green RAID Storage Architecture with Improved Energy Efficiency and Reliability
  Bo Mao, Dan Feng, Suzhen Wu, Lingfang Zeng, Jianxi Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), and Hong Jiang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Papers: Tuesday, September 9

Session 4: Workload Characterization and Modeling (10:30am-noon)

• Modelling and Validation of Response Times in Zoned RAID
  Abigail Lebrecht, Nicholas Dingle, and William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)
• A Novel and Generic Model for Synthesizing Disk I/O Traffic Based on The Alpha-stable Process
  Qiang Zou, Dan Feng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Yifeng Zhu (University of Maine), and Hong Jiang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Characterization of Large-Scale SMTP Traffic: The Coexistence of the Poisson Process and Self-Similarity
  Youngjae Lee and Jin-Soo Kim (KAIST)

Session 5A: Performance Modeling (1:30-3:00pm)

• Allocation and Admission Policies for Service Streams
  Michele Mazzucco, Isi Mitrani (Newcastle University), Mike Fisher, and Paul McKee (BT Group)
• Network Information Flow in Network of Queues
  Phillipa Gill, Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary), Anirban Mahanti (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Jingxiang Luo, and Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)
• Bounding the Performance of BCMP Networks with Load-Dependent Stations
  Jonatha Anselmi and Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano)

Session 5B: Reliable Storage (1:30-3:00pm)

• Failure Prediction Models for Proactive Fault Tolerance Within Storage Environments
  Benjamin Eckart, Xin Chen, and Xubin He (Tennessee Technological University)
• Increased Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts
  Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University), Jehan-Francois Paris (University of Houston), Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz), and Ahmed Amer (University of Pittsburgh)
• PEARL: Performance, Energy, and Reliability Balanced Dynamic Data Redistribution for Next Generation Disk Arrays
  Tao Xie (San Diego State University) and Yao Sun (Teradata Corporation)

Session 6: Systems Performance (4:30-6:00pm)

• Quantifying Temporal and Spatial Localities Due to File System Caching
  Cory Fox, Dragan Lojpur, and Andy Wang (Florida State University)
• A Large-scale and Decentralized Infrastructure for Multiple Queries Optimization and Aggregation
  Xiaoyu Yang and Yiming Hu (University of Cincinnati)
• Operational Analysis of Parallel Servers
  Terence Kelly (HP Labs), Kai Shen (University of Rochester), Alex Zhang (HP Labs), and Chris Stewart (HP Labs/University of Rochester)

Papers: Wednesday, September 10

Session 7A: Processor Performance (8:30am-10:00am)

• On the Stability of Best Effort Flow Control Mechanisms in On-Chip Architectures
  Mohammad Talebi and Ahmad Khonsari (University of Tehran IPM)
• Modeling and Analyzing the Effect of Microarchitecture Design Parameters on Microprocessor Soft Error Vulnerability
  Chang-Burm Cho, Wangyuan Zhang, and Tao Li (University of Florida)
• Optimizing Galois Field Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures and Applications
  Kevin Greenan, Ethan Miller (University of California at Santa Cruz), and Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University)

Session 7B: Network Protocol Modeling (8:30am-10:00am)

• Taxis: Scalable Strong Anonymous Communication
  Andreas Hirt, Michael Jacobson Jr., and Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)
• Realistic Topology Modeling for the Internet BGP Routing Infrastructure
  Veena Raghavan, George Riley, and Talal Jaafar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• A Markov Chain Model to Account for Multi-Rate Transmission and Node Cooperative Behavior in IEEE 802.11 Data Link Protocol
  Lakshmi Narasimhan Kannan, Niraj Agarwal, Marco Tacca, and Andrea Fumagalli (University of Texas at Dallas)

Session 8A: Simulation Modeling (10:30am-noon)

• Tackling the Memory Balancing Problem for Large-Scale Network Simulation
  Hyojeong Kim and Kihong Park (Purdue University)
• Comparison of Single-Rate Multicast Congestion Control Protocols vs ASMP
  Christos Bouras (University of Patras/RACTI), Apostolos Gkamas (RACTI), and Georgios Kioumourtzis (University of Patras)
• Modeling Software Contention using Colored Petri Nets
  Nilabja Roy, Akshay Dabholkar, Nathan Hamm, Larry Dowdy, and Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University)

Session 8B: Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Networks (10:30am-noon)

• TCP over WiMAX: A Measurement Study
  Emir Halepovic, Qian Wu, Carey Williamson, and Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary)
• Geographic Constraint Mobility Model for Ad Hoc Network
  Sabbir Ahmed, Gour Karmakar, and Joarder Kamruzzaman (Monash University)
• AKCE: An Efficient and Accurate K-coverage Eligibility Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Meng-Chun Wueng, Shyh-In Hwang, and Chia-Hsuan Ho (Yuan Ze University)

Posters: Tuesday, September 9 (3:00-4:30pm)

• Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Competitive Scheme
  H. Alipour, M. Kashefi-Kia, M. Esmaeili, and M. Abbaspour (Shahid Beheshti University)
• Toward Statistically Controllable Dynamic Network Topology Generation: Network Reorganization Model
  Yan Li and Peter King (Heriot-Watt University)
• Distributed Computations over Wireless Sensor Networks through the Mutual Coupling of Data-Encoded Oscillators
  KeBo Deng (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
• Influence of Propagation Modeling on VoIP Quality Performance in Wireless Mesh Network Simulation
  Arlen Nascimento, Saulo Queiroz, Leandro Galvao, and Edjair Mota (Federal University of Amazonas)
• Using Non-Volatile RAM as a Write Buffer for NAND Flash Memory-based Storage Devices
  Sungmin Park, Hoyoung Jung, Hyoki Shim, Sooyong Kang, and Jaehyuk Cha (Hanyang University)
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of REDCAP to Recover the Locality Missed by Today's Linux Systems
  Pilar Gonzalez-Ferez, Juan Piernas (Universidad de Murcia), and Toni Cortes (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
• PRUN: Eliminating Information Redundancy for Large Scale Data Backup System
  Youjip Won, Jongmyeong Ban, Jaehong Min (Hanyang University), Jungpil Hur, Sangkyu Oh, and Jangsun Lee (Macro Impact)
• Power Optimization in Fault-Tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Oliviero Riganelli (Universita di Camerino), Radu Grosu, Samir Das, C. Ramakrishnan, and Scott Smolka (SUNY at Stony Brook)
• Energy Efficient Buffer Cache Replacement
  Jianhui Yue, Yifeng Zhu, and Zhao Cai (University of Maine)
• Lifetime Estimation of Large IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Wireless Sensor Networks
  Carol Fung (University of Waterloo) and Yanni Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba)
• Filtering Effects of Media Merging in a Cache Hierarchy
  Jean Cao and Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)
• A Discrete Event Simulation Model for Parallel Data Transfer Applications
  John Sherrell (Kansas State University), Jason Wertz (Sandia National Laboratories), and Don Gruenbacher (Kansas State University)
• Write-Buffer-Aware Address Mapping for NAND Flash Memory Devices
  Sungmin Park, Hoyoung Jung, Hyoki Shim, Sooyong Kang, and Jaehyuk Cha (Hanyang University)