CONFERENCE PROGRAM

(with page numbers in the Conference Proceedings)

 

Networks 1

Faster IP Lookups using Controlled Prefix Expansion.....1

Srinivasan Venkatachary, George Varghese, Washington University at St. Louis

 

On Calibrating Measurements of Packet Transit Times.....11

Vern Paxson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Modeling Communication Pipeline Latency....22

Randolph Y. Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Richard P. Martin, University of California at Berkeley; Thomas E. Anderson, University of Washington; David E. Culler, University of California at Berkeley

 

Storage Scheduling

 Implementing Cooperative Prefetching and Caching in a Globally-Managed Memory System....33

Geoffrey M.Voelker, Eric J.Anderson, University of Washington; Tracy Kimbrel, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Michael J. Feeley, University of British Columbia; Jeffrey S. Chase, Duke University; Anna R. Karlin, Henry Levy, University of Washington

 

Cello: A Disk Scheduling Framework for Next Generation Operating Systems.....44

Prashant J. Shenoy, Harrick M. Vin, University of Texas at Austin

 

The Impact of I/O on Program Behavior and Parallel Scheduling.....56

Emilia Rosti, Università degli Studi di Milano; Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano; Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary; Mark S. Squillante, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 

Networks 2

Is Service Priority Useful in Networks?.....66

Sandeep Bajaj, Lee Breslau, Scott Shenker, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

 

Improving TCP Throughput over Two-Way Asymmetric Links: Analysis and Solutions....78

Lampros Kalampoukas, Bell Laboratories; Anujan Varma, University of California, Santa Cruz; K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research

 

Asymptotic Behavior of Global Recovery in SRM.....90

Suchitra Raman, Steven McCanne, University of California at Berkeley; Scott Shenker, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

 

Queueing

The Busy Period in the Fluid Queue.....100

Onno Boxma, CWI, Amsterdam; V. Dumas, MAB - Université Bordeaux I

 

Transient Loss Performance of a Class of Finite Buffer Queueing Systems.....111

Guang-Liang Li, Jun-Hong Cui, Academia Sinica; Fang-Ming Li, Shengyang University; Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

Queueing-Based Analysis of Broadcast Optical Networks.....121

Martin W. McKinnon, Georgia Tech Research Institute; George N. Rouskas, Harry G. Perros, North Carolina State University

 

Workload characterization

Predicting MPEG Execution Times.....131

Andy C. Bavier, A. Brady Montz, Larry L. Peterson, The University of Arizona

 

Self-Similarity in File Systems.....141

Steven D. Gribble, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Drew Roselli, Eric A. Brewer, University of California at Berkeley; Timothy J. Gibson, Ethan L. Miller, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

Generating Representative Web Workloads for Network and Server Peformance Evaluation.....151

Paul Barford, Mark Crovella, Boston University

 

Tools and Benchmarking

Performance Measurements for Multithreaded Programs....161

Minwen Ji, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li, Princeton University

 

A Methodology and an Evaluation of the SGI Origin2000.....171

Dongming Jiang, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Princeton University

 

Device Models

An Analytic Behavior Model for Disks Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering.....182

Elizabeth Shriver, Lucent/Bell Labs; Arif Merchant, John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

 

Modeling Set Associative Caches Behavior for Irregular Computations.....192

Basilio B. Fraguela, Ramón Doallo, Univ. da Coruña; Emilio L. Zapata, Univ. de Málaga

 

Networks 3

Inter-Receiver Fairness: A Novel Performance Measure for Multicast ABR Sessions.....202

Tianji Jiang, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Application and Evaluation of Large Deviation Techniques for Traffic Engineering in Broadband Networks.....212

Costas Courcoubetis, Vasilios A. Siris, George D. Stamoulis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

 

The Concept of Relevant Time Scales and Its Application to Queuing Analysis of Self-Similar Traffic (or Is Hurst Naughty or Nice?).....222

Arnold L. Neidhardt, Jonathan L. Wang, Bellcore

 

Cluster Scheduling

Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems......233

Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Alan M. Mainwaring, University of California, Berkeley

 

Scheduling Policies to Support Distributed 3D Multimedia Applications.....244

Thu D. Nguyen, John Zahorjan, University of Washington

 

LoGPC: Modeling Network Contention in Message-Passing Programs.....254

Csaba Andras Moritz, Matthew I. Frank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Poster papers (extended abstracts)

Modeling and Optimizing I/O Throughput of Multiple Disks on a Bus.....264

Rakesh Barve, Duke University; Elizabeth Shriver, Phillip B. Gibbons, Bruce Hillyer, Bell Labs; Yossi Matias, Tel-Aviv University; Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Duke University

 

The Performance of Work Stealing in Multiprogrammed Environments.....266

Robert D. Blumofe, Dionisios Papadopoulos, University of Texas at Austin

 

Task Assignment in a Distributed System: Improving Performance by Unbalancing Load.....268

Mark E. Crovella, Boston University; Mor Harchol-Balter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cristina D. Murta, Boston University

 

A Self-Scaling and Self-Configuring Benchmark for Web Servers.....270

Stephen Manley, Network Appliance; Margo Seltzer, Harvard University; Michael Courage, Microsoft Corporation

 

On Performance of Caching Proxies.....272

Alex Rousskov, Valery Soloviev, North Dakota State University

 

Total Acknowledgements: A Robust Feedback Mechanism for End-to-End Congestion Control.....274

J. Waldby, U. Madhow, University of Illinois, Urbana; T. V. Lakshman, Bell Laboratories

 

Portable, Continuous Recording of Complete Computer Behavior With Low Overhead.....276

Thomas E. Willis, George B. Adams III, Purdue University

 

Using Idle Memory for Data-Intensive Computations.....278

Anurag Acharya, University of California, Santa Barbara; Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University

 

Temporally Determinate Disk Access: An Experimental Approach.....280

Mohamed Aboutabl, Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland at College Park; Jean-Dominique Decotignie, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne