SIGMETRICS 1999: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Network Performance

• Vinay J. Ribeiro, Rudolf H. Riedi, Matthew S. Crouse, Richard G. Baraniuk:
  Simulation of nonGaussian Long-Range-Dependent Traffic Using Wavelets. 1-12
  
• Wei Zhao, Satish K. Tripathi:
  Bandwidth-Efficient Continuous Media Streaming Through Optimal Multiplexing. 13-22
  

Systems Performance and Simulation

• Sanjeev Kumar, Dongming Jiang, Rohit Chandra, Jaswinder Pal Singh:
  Evaluating Synchronization on Shared Address Space Multiprocessors: Methodology and Performance. 23-34
  
• Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia:
  Availability and Utility of Idle Memory in Workstation Clusters. 35-46
  
• Scott F. Kaplan, Yannis Smaragdakis, Paul R. Wilson:
  Trace Reduction for Virtual Memory Simulations. 47-58
  

File and I/O Systems

• John R. Douceur, William J. Bolosky:
  A Large-Scale Study of File-System Contents. 59-70
  
• Richard P. Martin, David E. Culler:
  NFS Sensitivity to High Performance Networks. 71-82
  
• Rakesh D. Barve, Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Phillip B. Gibbons, Bruce Hillyer, Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter:
  Modeling and Optimizing I/O Throughput of Multiple Disks on a Bus. 83-92
  

Queueing Analysis

• Jay Sethuraman, Mark S. Squillante:
  Optimal Stochastic Scheduling in Multiclass Parallel Queues. 93-102
  
• Elizabeth Varki:
  Mean Value Technique for Closed Fork-Join Networks. 103-112
  

Memory Systems

• Peter A. Franaszek, Philip Heidelberger, Michael E. Wazlowski:
  On Management of Free Space in Compressed Memory Systems. 113-121
  
• Yannis Smaragdakis, Scott F. Kaplan, Paul R. Wilson:
  EELRU: Simple and Effective Adaptive Page Replacement. 122-133
  
• Donghee Lee, Jongmoo Choi, Jong-Hun Kim, Sam H. Noh, Sang Lyul Min, Yookun Cho, Chong-Sang Kim:
  On the Existence of a Spectrum of Policies that Subsumes the Least Recently Used (LRU) and Least Frequently Used (LFU) Policies. 134-143
  

TCP and Network Performance

• Reiner Ludwig, Bela Rathonyi, Almudena Konrad, Kimberly Oden, Anthony D. Joseph:
  Multi-Layer Tracing of TCP over a Reliable Wireless Link. 144-154
  
• Farooq Anjum, Leandros Tassiulas:
  On the Behavior of Different TCP Algorithms over a Wireless Channel With Correlated Packet Losses. 155-165
  
• Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Andy Myers, Hui Zhang:
  A Third-Party Value-Added Network Service Approach to Reliable Multicast. 166-177
  

Web Performance

• Li Fan, Pei Cao, Wei Lin, Quinn Jacobson:
  Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies: Potential and Performance. 178-187
  
• Paul Barford, Mark Crovella:
  A Performance Evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols. 188-197
  

Extended Abstracts: Posters

• Huican Zhu, Ben Smith, Tao Yang:
  Hierarchical Resource Management for Web Server Clusters with Dynamic Content. 198-199
  
• Cheng Liao, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clark:
  An Adaptive Globally-Synchronizing Clock Algorithm and its Implementation on a Myrinet-based PC Cluster. 200-201
  
• Cheng-Fu Chou, Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui:
  A Performance Study of Dynamic Replication Techniques in Continuous Media Servers. 202-203
  
• Constantinos Dovrolis, Dimitrios Stiliadis:
  Relative Differentiated Services in the Internet: Issues and Mechanisms. 204-205
  
• Gretta Bartels, Anna R. Karlin, Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, Henry M. Levy, Geoffrey M. Voelker:
  Potentials and Limitations of Fault-Based Markov Prefetching for Virtual Memory Pages. 206-207
  
• Patrick Crowley, Jean-Loup Baer:
  On the Use of Trace Sampling for Architectural Studies of Desktop Applications. 208-209
  
• Sumeer Bhola, Mustaque Ahamad:
  Workload Modeling for Highly Interactive Applications. 210-211
  
• Narayanan Venkitaraman, Tae-eun Kim, Kang-Won Lee:
  Design and Evaluation of Congestion Control Algorithms in the Future Internet. 212-213
  
• E. N. Elnozahy:
  Address Trace Compression Through Loop Detection and Reduction. 214-215
  
• Erich M. Nahum, Tsipora P. Barzilai, Dilip D. Kandlur:
  Performance Issues in WWW Servers. 216-217
  
• T. S. Eugene Ng, Donpaul C. Stephens, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang:
  Supporting Best-Effort Traffic With Fair Service Curve. 218-219
  
• Jitendra Padhye, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsley, Rajeev Koodli:
  A TCP-Friendly Rate Adjustment Protocol for Continuous Media Flows over Best Effort Networks. 220-221
  
• Allen B. Downey:
  Using Pathchar to Estimate Internet Link Characteristics. 222-223
  
• Yuval Hershko, Daniel Segal, Hadas Shachnai:
  Self-Tuning Synchronization Mechanisms in Network Operating Systems. 224-225
  

Extended Abstracts: Industrial Experiences

• Pradip Bose:
  Performance Evaluation and Validation of Microprocessors. 226-227
  
• Shikharesh Majumdar, Dale Streibel, Bruce Beninger, Brian Carroll, Neveenta Verma, Minru Liu:
  Controlling Memory Contention on a Scalable Multiprocessor-Based Telephone Switch. 228-229
  
• Eugenio Cervetto:
  Model-Based Performance Analysis of an EDP/ERP-Oriented Wide Area Network. 230-231
  
• Srinivas Ramanathan, Edward H. Perry:
  The Value of a Systematic Approach to Measurement and Analysis: An ISP Case Study. 232-233
  
• Janet Siebert:
  Improving Performance of Data Analysis in Data Warehouses: A Methodology and Case Study. 234-235