2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Technical Program

The program schedule is tentative and Will change!!!

October 23, 2007 [Tuesday]

08:15 AM

Registration starts

08:50 AM - 09:00

Opening, Best paper and best student paper awards

09:00 AM - 10:00

Keynote Talk, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Peter Glynn (Stanford University, USA)

Equilibrium in Allocation Games, and What it Takes to Get There. Slides.

Bruce Hajek (UIUC, USA) Bio and abstract.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 12:30 Noon: Parallel Session

Optimization and games I, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Corinne Touati (INRIA, France)

(1967) Decentralized control of large-scale networks as a game with local interactions: cross-layer TCP/IP optimization
Vladimir Marbukh (NIST), Stephan Klink (NIST)

(1939) Stackelberg Approach for Pricing Differentiated Services
Eitan Altman (INRIA), Richard Marquez (Cinvestav-IPN, Sección de Mecatrónica), Rachid El-Azouzi (Universite d'Avignon), David Ros (GET/ENST Bretagne), Bruno Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA)

(1953) Optimal Cluster-head Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks with Redundant Link Requirements
Xu Ning (Boston University), Christos Cassandras (Boston University)

(1970) Cooperative and Non-cooperative control for Slotted Aloha with random power level selections
Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon), Sabir Es Saïd (Université Mohammed V, Rabat-Agdal), Tania Jimenez (Université d'Avignon, LIA), Bouyakhf El Houssine (Université Mohammed V, Rabat), Souad Benarfa (Université Mohammed V, Rabat)

10:30 AM - 12:30 Noon: Parallel Session

Traffic models and measurements, Lecture room E, Lower foyer
Chair: Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, New-Zealand)

(1782) Enhanced Skype Traffic Identification
Marcell Perényi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, dept. of telecommunications and media informatics), Sándor Molnár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, dept. of telecommunications and media informatics)

(1797) Quantifying ILP by means of Graph Theory
Rafael Rico (Universidad de Alcala), Virginia Escuder (Universidad de Alcala), Raul Duran (Universidad de Alcala)

(1935) Estimating Markov-Modulated Compound Poisson Process
Hiroyuki Okamura (Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University), Yuya Kamahara (Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University), Tadashi Dohi (Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University)

(1892) An overview of Network Traffic Engineering and Analysis: Characteristics, Simulation, Modelling and Control
Karim Rezaul (NEWI, University of wales), Vic Grout (NEWI, University of Wales)

12:30 Noon - 14:00: Lunch at Le Lieu Unique restaurant

14:00 - 16:30

Petri and Automata networks, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Simonetta Balsamo (University Foscari di Venezia, Italy)

(1946) A Toolkit for Performability Evaluation Based on Stochastic UML State Machines
Jan Trowitzsch (Technische Universität Berlin), Armin Zimmermann (Technische Universität Berlin), Dan Jerzynek (Technische Universität Berlin)

(1812) Modeling and Evaluation of Supply Chains with GSPN Components
Gabriel Alves (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)), Ricardo Lima (Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE)), Paulo Maciel (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE))

(1980) Product form for Stochastic Automata Networks
Jean-Michel Fourneau (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble and PRiSM, University of Versailles), Brigitte Plateau (INRIA Project MESCAL, LIG, CNRS UMR 5217), William Stewart (North Carolina State University)

(1774) Representing LCFSPR BCMP service center with Coxian service time by GSPN
Simonetta Balsamo (Università Ca‘ Foscari di Venezia), Andrea Marin (Universita‘ Ca‘ Foscari di Venezia)

(1945) A Binomial Measure Method for Traffic Modeling
Lingbo Pei (PLA University OF Science and Technology), Ming Chen (PLA University OF Science and Technology), Jun Zhou (PLA University OF Science and Technology)

16:30 - 17:00: Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:30

Optimization and games II, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Christos Cassandras (Boston University, USA)

(1966) Utility Maximization for Resolving Throughput/Reliability Trade-offs in an Unreliable Network with Multipath Routing
Vladimir Marbukh (NIST)

(1981) Asymmetric Delay in Evolutionary Games
Tembine Hamidou (LIA-CERI, University of Avignon), Eitan Altman (INRIA), Rachid ElAzouzi (LIA-CERI, University of Avignon)

SEPCOM: Customizable Zero Copy Model
Kai Chen (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Purui Su (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yingjun Zhang (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Dengguo Feng (State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

19:30: Welcome Reception: Wine and Cheese Party at the Machines de l'île de Nantes. Some pictures

October 24, 2007 [Wednesday]

09:00 AM - 10:00

Invited Speaker, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, UK)

A Generic Mean Field Convergence Result for Systems of Interacting Objects. Slides.

Jean-Yves Le Boudec (EPFL, Switzerland) Bio and abstract: see the page on keynote and invited speakers.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon: Parallel Session

Statistical physics models for communication systems, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research, UK)

(1791) Vector Precoding in Wireless Communications: A Replica Symmetric Analysis
Ralf Müller (NTNU), Dongning Guo (Northwestern University), Aris Moustakas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

(2018) Cross-system resource allocation based on random matrix theory
Samson Lasaulce (CNRS), Alberto Suarez (Eurecom), Raul De Lacerda (Eurecom), Merouane Debbah (Supelec)

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon: Parallel Session

Simulation I, Lecture room E, Lower foyer
Chair: Armin Zimmermann (Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany)

(1916) Hybrid Simulation of a FIFO Queuing System with Trace-Driven Background Traffic
Ben Lauwens (RMA), Bart Scheers (RMA), Antoine Van de Capelle (KULeuven), Jan Potemans (KULeuven)

(1936) Using Parallel Replications for Sequential Estimation of Multiple Steady State Quantiles
Mirko Eickhoff (University of Canterbury, COSC Department), Don McNickle (University of Canterbury, Management Department), Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, COSC Department)

(1937) Detecting the Duration of Initial Transient in Steady State Simulation of Arbitrary Performance Measures
Mirko Eickhoff (University of Canterbury, COSC Department), Don McNickle (University of Canterbury, Management Department), Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, COSC Department)

12:00 Noon - 13:30: Lunch at Le Lieu Unique restaurant

13:30 - 16:00

Queueing systems I, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Italy)

(1920) Aggregated bounding Markov processes applied to the analysis of tandem queues
Hind Castel-Taleb (INT), Lynda Mokdad (Lamsade Paris Dauphine), Nihal Pekergin (LACL, Universite Paris 12)

(1972) A Histogram-Based Stochastic Process for Finite Buffer Occupancy Analysis
Enrique Hernandez-Orallo (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), Joan Vila-Carbo (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia)

(1775) Approximate Queueing Network Analysis of Patient Treatment Times
Susanna Au-Yeung (Imperial College London), Peter Harrison (Imperial College London), William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)

(1985) Level Crossing Ordering of Markov Chains: Proving Convergence and Bounding End to End Delays in an All Optical Network
Ana Busic (PRiSM, University of Versailles), Tadeusz Czachorski (IITIS-PAN), Jean-Michel Fourneau (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble and PRiSM, University of Versailles), Krzysztof Grochla (IITIS-PAN)

(1803) The Twin Measure for Queueing System Predictability
David Raz (School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Hanoch Levy (School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Benjamin Avi-Itzhak (RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA)

16:00 - 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 - 18:15

Grid computing, performance tuning and repairable systems, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Samuel Kounev (University of Cambridge)

(1983) Autonomic QoS-Aware Resource Management in Grid Computing using Online Performance Models
Samuel Kounev (University of Cambridge), Ramon Nou (Technical University of Catalonia), Jordi Torres (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

(1919) A Productivity Centered Framework for Application Performance Tuning
I-Hsin Chung (IBM Research), Simone Sbaraglia (IBM Research), Hui-Fang Wen (IBM Research), Seetharami Seelam (IBM Research), Guojing Cong (IBM Research), David Klepacki (IBM Research), Ekanadham Kattamuri (IBM Research)

(1952) Fast Evaluation of the Moments of the Interval Availability of Large Markov Models
Reinaldo Vallejos (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

(1913) The software architecture of the OsMoSys Multisolution Framework
Francesco Moscato (University of Naples Federico II - Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica), Francesco Flammini (University of Naples Federico II - Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica), Giusy Di Lorenzo (University of Naples Federico II - Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica), Valeria Vittorini (University of Naples Federico II - Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica), Stefano Marrone (Second Univ. of Naples, Dip. Ingegneria dell‘Informazione), Mauro Iacono (Second Univ. of Naples, Dip. di Studi Europei e Mediterranei)

19:00: Banquet: Brasserie La Cigale - Nantes

October 25, 2007 [Thursday]

09:00 AM - 10:00

Invited Speaker, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France)

Epidemic Dissemination and Efficient Broadcasting in Peer-to-Peer Systems. Slides.

Laurent Massoulié (Thomson Research Paris, France) Abstract: see the page on keynote and invited speakers.

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 12:30: Parallel Session

Queueing systems II, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Jean-Michel Fourneau (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble and PRiSM, University of Versailles, France)

(2001) Stationary Delays for a Multiclass Priority Queue with Impatient Customers
Oualid Jouini (Ecole Centrale Paris), Yves Dallery (Ecole Centrale Paris)

(1969) Interest of kernel density in the use of strong stability method to precise the proximity of G/M/1 and M/M/1 systems
Aïcha Bareche (Laboratory of Modelization and optimization of Systems), Djamil Aïssani (Laboratory of Modelization and optimization of Systems)

(2021) Continuous PEPA Queues: Individual behaviour in continuous queueing networks
Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London), Ashok Argent-Katwala (Imperial College London)

(1987) Finite-buffer bulk service queue under Markovian service process:~$GI/MSP^{(a,b)}/1/N$
Abhijit Banik (IRISA, Rennes), Umesh Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology), Mohan Chaudhry (Royal Military college of Canada)

10:30 AM - 12:30: Parallel Session

Performance and design of wireless networks, Lecture room E, Lower foyer
Chair: Ralf Müller (NTNU, Norway)

(1944) Cellular network with continuum priority set
Jean-Marc Kelif (France Telecom Research and Development), Eitan Altman (INRIA)

(1965) Maximum Delay-Constrained Source Rate over a Wireless Channel
Beatriz Soret (Departamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Málaga), J) Tomás Entrambasaguas (Departamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Málaga), M. Carmen Aguayo-Torres (Departamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Málaga)

(1928) Joint uplink and downlink capacity considerations in admission control in multiservice CDMA/HSDPA systems
Tijani Chahed (GET/INT), Eitan Altman (INRIA-Sophia Antipolis), Salah-Eddine Elayoubi (France Telecom R&D)

(1968) Distributed Subchannel Assignment in an OFDMA Relay
Tiina Heikkinen (University of Helsinki), Ari Hottinen (Nokia Research Center)

12:30 Noon - 14:00: Lunch at Le lieu Unique restaurant

14:00 - 15:30

Network calculus, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Bruno Gaujal (INRIA)

(1804) CyNC - a MATLAB/SimuLink Toolbox for Network Calculus
Henrik Schioler (Aalborg University), Hans Schwefel (Section for Network Security, Aalborg University), Martin Hansen (Mathematical Institute, Aalborg University)

(1912) End-to-end Delay Bounds in FIFO-multiplexing Tandems
Giovanni Stea (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell‘Informazione, University of Pisa), Enzo Mingozzi (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell‘Informazione, University of Pisa), Luciano Lenzini (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell‘Informazione, University of Pisa)

(1949) Optimal routing for end-to-end guarantees: the price of multiplexing
Anne Bouillard (ENS Cachan / IRISA), Bruno Gaujal (INRIA), Sébastien Lagrange (Université d'Angers), Eric Thierry (ENS Lyon, IXXI)

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00

Simulation II, Lecture room BC, Lower foyer
Chair: Markus Siegle (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany)

(1807) Simulation versus Analytic-Numeric Methods: Illustrative Examples
Bruno Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA), Pawan Choudhary (Duke University), Christophe Hirel (Duke University), Kishor Trivedi (Duke University)

(1817) Detecting Non-Ergodic Simulation Models of Logistics Networks
Jan Kriege (Universitaet Dortmund), Falko Bause (Universitaet Dortmund)

(1933) Perfect Simulation and Monotone Stochastic Bounds
Imane Yamina Kadi (PRiSM, University of Versailles), Jean-Michel Fourneau (INRIA Project MESCAL, LIG, CNRS UMR 5217), Nihal Pekergin (Marin Marsenne Laboratory), Jerome Vienne (INRIA project MESCAL, Laboratoire informatique de Grenoble), Jean-marc Vincent (INRIA project MESCAL Laboratoire informatique de Grenoble)

(1986) Tool-Based Performance Evaluation of the BlackBoard Communication System
Volker Remuss (Techniche Universität Berlin), Armin Zimmermann (Technische Universität Berlin)