MASCOTS 1998: Montreal, Canada

MASCOTS 1998, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 19-24 July, 1998, Montreal, Canada. IEEE Computer Society 1998

Cache Performance

Dee A. B. Weikle, Sally A. McKee, William A. Wulf:
Caches as Filters: A New Approach to Cache Analysis. 2-12
B. Sonah, Mabo Robert Ito:
New Adaptive Object Replacement Policy for Video-on-Demand Systems. 13-18
Edward S. Tam, Jude A. Rivers, Gary S. Tyson, Edward S. Davidson:
mlcache: A Flexible Multi-Lateral Cache Simulator. 19-26
Atsuhiro Tanaka:
Extension of the Working Set for Modeling Spatial Locality in Program Behavior. 27-

Multicast Routing

Ahmed Helmy, Deborah Estrin:
Simulation-based 'STRESS' Testing Case Study: A Multicast Routing Protocol. 36-43
Honge Wang, Douglas M. Blough:
Tree-Based Fault-Tolerant Multicast in Multicomputer Networks. 44-49
Wladek Olesinski, Pawel Gburzynski:
Multicast in Deflection Networks. 50-55
Jim Mee Ng, Peoy Khee Ng:
Cost-Delay Path Selection Function for Real-Time Multicast Routing. 56-

TCP/IP Performance

P. Mishra, M. Saksena:
Effect of Gateway Buffer Management Policies on TCP over ATM Performance. 63-68
Haining Wang, Carey L. Williamson:
A New Scheme for TCP Congestion Control: Smooth-Start and Dynamic Recovery. 69-76
Bruce A. Mah, Peter E. Sholander, Luis Martinez, Lawrence Tolendino:
IPB: An Internet Protocol Benchmark using Simulated Traffic. 77-84
Nunzio N. Savino, Ramón Puigjaner:
Performance Modeling of OrbixTalk: A Message Delivery System based on Reliable Multicast Protocols. 85-

ATM Networks

M. Sivabalan, H. T. Mouftah:
Approaches to Link-State Alternate Path Routing in Connection-Oriented Networks. 92-100
Christiane Lemieux, Pierre L'Ecuyer:
An Empirical Comparison of Diffusion Approximations and Simulation in ATM Networks. 101-106
Luigi Alcuri, Giuseppe D'Acquisto:
Real Time Resource Allocation in an ATM Network. 107-111
James Aweya, Delfin Y. Montuno, Q. Zhang, Luis Orozco-Barbosa:
A Binary Feedback Flow Control Scheme using System Sensitivity Derivatives for Congestion Detection. 112-

Networks and Performance

Byron Bashforth, Carey L. Williamson:
Statistical Multiplexing of Self-Similar Video Streams: Simulation Study and Performance Results. 119-126
Jehan-François Pâris, Steven W. Carter, Darrell D. E. Long:
Efficient Broadcasting Protocols for Video on Demand. 127-132
Matthias Frank, Peter Martini:
Performance Analysis of an End-to-End Bandwidth Regulation Scheme. 133-138
O. Abuamsha, Nihal Pekergin:
Comparison of Fair Queuing Algorithms with a Stochastic Approach. 139-

Parallel and Distributed Systems I

Alois Ferscha, James Johnson, Gabriele Kotsis, Cosimo Anglano:
Pro-active Performance Management of Distributed Applications. 146-152
Govindan Ravindran, Michael Stumm:
Prioritized Multiprocessor Networks: Design and Performance. 153-160
Abdul Waheed, Jerry C. Yan:
Performance Modeling and Measurement of Parallelized Code for Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors. 161-166
Arun Iyengar, Edward A. MacNair, Mark S. Squillante, Li Zhang:
A General Methodology for Characterizing Access Patterns and Analyzing Web Server Performance. 167-

Parallel and Distributed Systems II

S. Takkar, Sivarama P. Dandamudi:
Performance of Hard Real-Time Transaction Scheduling Policies in Parallel Database Systems. 176-184
Jian Huang, David J. Lilja:
An Efficient Strategy for Developing a Simulator for a Novel Concurrent Multithreaded Processor Architecture. 185-191
Constantine Katsinis:
Distributed-Shared-Memory Support on the Simultaneous Optical Multiprocessor Exchange Bus. 192-197
L. Vekiarides, David Finkel:
NETCAP: A Tool for the Capacity Planning of Ethernet LANs. 198-

Modeling Techniques

Stefan Fischer, Hermann de Meer:
QoS Management: A Model-Based Approach. 205-210
Guang-Liang Li, Jun-Hong Cui, Bo Li, Fang-Ming Li:
A Novel Analysis Technique for Investigating Transient Performance of Queueing Systems. 211-216
K. Khan, Hassan Peyravi:
Delay and Queue Size Analysis of TDMA with General Traffic. 217-225
Wolfgang K. Giloi, Christoph Lindemann, S. Pletner:
Modeling Node Architectures. 226-

Simulation Techniques and Applications

David M. Nicol, Michael M. Johnson, Ann S. Yoshimura, Michael E. Goldsby:
IDES: A Java-based Distributed Simulation Engine. 233-240
Polly Huang, Deborah Estrin, John S. Heidemann:
Enabling Large-Scale Simulations: Selective Abstraction Approach to the Study of Multicast Protocols. 241-248
L. Tao:
An On-Line Simulator for Wormhole Routing Networks. 249-254
Mariela Curiel, Ramón Puigjaner:
A Measurement Methodology to Calibrate Analytical Models including Operating System Overhead. 255-

Wireless Networks

Richard A. Meyer, Rajive Bagrodia:
Improving Lookahead in Parallel Wireless Network Simulation. 262-267
Sem C. Borst, Sudheer A. Grandhi, Colin L. Kahn, Krishnan Kumaran, Boris D. Lubachevsky, Donna M. Sand:
Simulation of Self-Organizing Spectrum Management in Wireless Networks. 268-273
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Salvatore Marano, Carlo Mastroianni, Michela Meo:
Performance Analysis of Cellular Mobile Communication Networks Supporting Multimedia Services. 274-281
Cedric C. F. Fong, John C. S. Lui, Man Hon Wong, Edmundo de Souza e Silva:
Transient Performance Analysis for Location Update Protocols in Cellular Networks. 282-

Miscellaneous

M. Vuletic, G. Davidovic, V. Muilutinovic:
Suboptimal Detection of Telemetry Signals: Functional Simulation and VLSI Implementation. 289-294
Anurag Bhargava, Li Li, Dharma P. Agrawal, Prathima Agrawal:
D²PAMN: Distributed Dynamic Power and Error Control Algorithm for Mobile Networks. 295-300
Peter J. Ashenden, Philip A. Wilsey:
Extensions to VHDL for Abstraction of Concurrency and Communication. 301-308
Prabhakar Raghavan, Hadas Shachnai, Mira Yaniv:
Dynamic Schemes for Speculative Execution of Code. 309-