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MAMA 2009: Program

Program Updated May 28, 2009

The Eleventh Workshop on MAthematical Performance Modeling and Analysis
June 15, 2009 - Seattle, WA

*Subject to Change*

Monday, June 15, 2009
08:00 -- 08:30		Who Said That? -- The Send-Receive Correlation Problem in Network Log Analysis B. Scheuermann, W. Kiess (Heinrich Heine University)
08:30 -- 09:00		Selectively Retrofitting Monitoring in Distributed Systems A. Anandkumar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), C. Bisdikian, T. He, D. Agrawal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
09:00 -- 09:30		Performance Modeling of Distributed Multi-Tier Enterprise Systems A. Dubey (Vanderbilt University), R. Mehrotra, S. Abdelwahed (Mississippi State University), A. Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
09:30 -- 10:00		Deriving Cramer-Rao Bounds and Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Traffic Matrix Inference C. Wang, X. Ma (Georgia Institute of Technology)
10:00 -- 10:30		COFFEE BREAK
10:30 -- 11:00		Greedy Forwarding in Scale-Free Networks Embedded in Hyperbolic Metric Spaces D. Krioukov, F. Papadopoulos (University of California, San Diego), M. Boguna (Universitat de Barcelona), A. Vahdat (University of California, San Diego)
11:00 -- 11:30		Basic Theorems on the Backoff Process in 802.11 J.-W. Cho, Y. Jiang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
11:30 -- 12:00		Optimal Job/File Fragmentation J. Nair, S.H. Low (California Institute of Technology)
12:00 -- 13:00		LUNCH
13:00 -- 13:30		Extending Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era E. Yao, Y. Bao, G. Tan, M. Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
13:30 -- 14:00		A Local Equilibrium Model for P2P Resource Ranking D. Korzun, A. Gurtov (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
14:00 -- 14:30		Modeling Chunk Availability in P2P Swarming Systems D.S. Menasche (University of Massachusetts), A.A.A. Rocha, E. de Souza e Silva, R.M. Meri Leao (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), D. Towsley, A. Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts)
14:30 -- 15:00		Viewing Impaired Video Transmissions From a Modeling Perspective O. Hohlfeld, F. Ciucu (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories)
15:00 -- 15:30		COFFEE BREAK
15:30 -- 16:00		Workload Optimality in Switches Without Arrivals G.R. Gupta, S. Sanghavi (Purdue University), N.B. Shroff (The Ohio State University)
16:00 -- 16:30		Optimal Speed Scaling Under Arbitrary Power Functions L.L.H. Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology), A. Wierman (California Institute of Technology), A. Tang (Cornell University)
16:30 -- 17:00		Heavy-Traffic Analysis of the M/PH/1 Discriminatory Processor Sharing Queue with Phase-Dependent Weights I.M. Verloop (CWI), U. Ayesta (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics & Universite de Toulouse), R. Nunez-Queija (CWI & University of Amsterdam)
17:00 -- 17:30		Improved Approximations for Stochastic Loss Networks J. Anselmi (INRIA and LIG Laboratory), Y. Lu, M. Sharma, M.S. Squillante (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
18:00 -- 19:00		Informal Reception in Visions Lounge (on the top floor of the Renaissance Seattle Hotel)