IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

PERFORM 2010: Vienna, Austria

Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges - IFIP WG 6.3/7.3 International Workshop, PERFORM 2010, in Honor of Günter Haring on the Occasion of His Emeritus Celebration, Vienna, Austria, October 14-16, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Karin Anna Hummel, Helmut Hlavacs, Wilfried N. Gansterer

Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6821, ISBN: 978-3-642-25574-8



Contents

Milestones and Evolutions

Disappointments and Delights, Fears and Hopes Induced by a Few Decades in Performance Evaluation.

Raymond A. Marie

 1-9

Model Interoperability for Performance Engineering: Survey of Milestones and Evolution.

Connie U. Smith, Catalina M. Lladó

 10-23

Tools for Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Historical Evolution and Perspectives.

Giuliano Casale, Marco Gribaudo, Giuseppe Serazzi

 24-37

Trends: Green ICT and Virtual Machines

Energy: A New Criteria for Performances in Large Scale Distributed Systems.

Jean-Marc Pierson

 38-48

From the Origins of Performance Evaluation to New Green ICT Performance Engineering.

Carlos Juiz, Ramón Puigjaner

 49-60

Predicting Disk Scheduling Performance with Virtual Machines.

Robert Geist, Zachary H. Jones, James Westall

 61-72

Modeling

Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Using Finite-Source Retrial Queues with Unreliable Orbit.

Patrick Wüchner, János Sztrik, Hermann de Meer

 73-86

Markov Chains and Spectral Clustering.

Ning Liu, William J. Stewart

 87-98

On the Analysis of Queues with Heavy Tails: A Non-Extensive Maximum Entropy Formalism and a Generalisation of the Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution.

Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Salam A. Assi

 99-111

Performance Evaluation with Hidden Markov Models.

Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Rosa Maria Meri Leão, Richard R. Muntz

 112-128

Network Protocol Performance Bounding Exploiting Properties of Infinite Dimensional Linear Equations.

Ioannis Stavrakakis

 129-140

Mobility and Mobile Networks

Modelling Social-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks.

Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

 141-152

On Lookahead Strategy for Movement-Based Location Update: A General Formulation.

Vicente Casares Giner

 153-166

Bayesian Estimation of Network-Wide Mean Failure Probability in 3G Cellular Networks.

Angelo Coluccia, Fabio Ricciato, Peter Romirer-Maierhofer

 167-178

Time Is Perception Is Money - Web Response Times in Mobile Networks with Application to Quality of Experience.

Markus Fiedler, Patrik Arlos, Timothy A. Gonsalves, Anuraag Bhardwaj, Hans Nottehed

 179-190

Communication and Computer Networks

On Traffic Domination in Communication Networks.

Walid Ben-Ameur, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, Michal Pióro

 191-202

Improving Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Thinning Process.

Monique Becker, Ashish Gupta 0006, Michel Marot, Harmeet Singh

 203-214

Load Balancing, Analysis, and Management

AWPS - An Architecture for Pro-active Web Performance Management.

Gabriele Kotsis, Martin Pinzger 0002

 215-226

Analysis of Web Logs: Challenges and Findings.

Maria Carla Calzarossa, Luisa Massari

 227-239

A Matrix-Analytic Solution for Randomized Load Balancing Models with PH Service Times.

Quan-Lin Li, John C. S. Lui, Yang Wang 0018

 240-253