Technical Program

The program of co-located workshops can be found at the website of each workshop.

October 20, Tuesday

18:15 - 20:15: Guided tour of the city center
 

October 21, Wednesday

October 22, Thursday

Session 1: Queueing 1
Session Chair: Thomas Bonald, Orange Labs, France

• Omer Czerniak, Eitan Altman and Uri Yechiali. Analysis of a TCP System under Polling-Type Decrease-Signal Procedures
• Abigail Lebrecht, Nicholas Dingle, William Knottenbelt, Peter Harrison and Soraya Zertal. Using Bulk Arrivals to Model I/O Request Response Time Distributions in Zoned Disks and RAID systems
• Jean-Paul Haddad and Ravi Mazumdar. Heavy traffic steady state approximations in stochastic networks with Levy inputs
• Arzad Kherani, Skanda Muthaiah, Smruti Padhy and Debojyoti Bhattacharya. Reliable and Secure Broadcast Communication Over Resource Constrained Systems 

Session 2: Complex Networks (invited papers selected by Jose' Mendes, University of Aveiro)
Session Chair: Jose' Mendes, University of Aveiro, Portugal

• (invited) Marija Mitrovic, Bosiljka Tadic, Finding Strucure in Blogs: Bipartite Network Analysis
• (invited) Santo Fortunato, Andrea Lancichinetti, Community Detection Algorithms: a comparative analysis
• Hannu Reittu and Ilkka Norros. A power-law graph as a distributed hash table with quick search and small tables

Session 3: Simulation 1
Session Chair: Giuliana Franceschinis, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy

• Rafael Rico, Virginia Escuder, Raul Duran, Luis-Emilio, Garcia-Castillo, Ignacio Gomez-Revuelto and Juan-Antonio Acebron. Parallelising a simulator for the analysis of electromagnetic radiation using MUMPS library
• Tuan Vu, Carey Williamson and Rei Safavi-Naini. Simulation Modeling of Secure Wireless Sensor Networks
• Martin Mroz and Gregory Franks. A Performance Experiment System Supporting Fast Mapping of System Issues

Session 4: Networking
Session Chair: Patrick Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland

• Kazutomo Kobayashi, Yukio Takahashi and Hiroyuki Takada. Asymptotic End-to-end Stochastic Evaluation for Tandem Networks with Many Flows
• Ben Tahar Abdelghani and Alain Jean-Marie. Population Effects in Multiclass Processor Sharing Queues
• Ayalvadi Ganesh and Moez Draief. A model for infection on graphs

Session 5: Network Calculus (invited papers selected by Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa)
Session Chair: Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy

• (invited) Anne Bouillard, Bertrand Cottenceau, Bruno Gaujal, Laurent Hardouin, Sebastien Lagrange, Mehdi Lhommeau, Eric Thierry. COINC Library : A toolbox for Network Calculus
• (invited) Florin Ciucu End-to-End Delay Analysis for Networks with Partial Assumptions of Statistical Independence
• (invited) Yuming Jiang. Network Calculus and Queueing Theory: Two Sides of One Coin
• Jozsef Biro. New Stochastic Network Calculus for Loss Analysis

Session 6: Optimisation and control of queues
Session Chair: Pierre L'Ecuyer, University of Montreal, Canada

• Nicolas Gast and Bruno Gaujal. A Mean Field Approach for Optimization in Particle Systems and Applications
• Carri Chan and Nick Bambos. Throughput Loss in Task Scheduling due to Server State Uncertainty
• Fern Hunt and Vladimir Marbukh. Measuring the Utility/Path Diversity Tradeoff in Multipath Protocols

Session 7: Petri nets
Session Chair: Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy

• Hongkun Yang. Hybrid Simulation of Biochemical Systems Using Hybrid Adaptive Petri Nets
• Souheib Baarir, Marco Beccuti, Claude Dutheillet and Giuliana Franceschinis. From partially to fully lumped Markov chains in Stochastic Well Formed Petri Nets
• Francesco Moscato, Valeria Vittorini, Stefano Marrone, Mauro Iacono, Giuliana Franceschinis and Marco Gribaudo. Interfaces and Binding in Component Based Development of Formal Models

Session 8: Simulation 2 (invited papers selected by Olivier Dalle, INRIA)
Session Chair: Olivier Dalle, INRIA, France

• (invited) Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, Hans-Jorg Schulz, Heidrun Schumann, Lars Schwabe, Dirk Timmermann, Regenerative Systems - Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization
• (invited) Pierre L'Ecuyer, A Practical View of Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo
• Dinesh Kumar, Li Zhang and Asser Tantawi. Enhanced Inferencing: Estimation of a Workload Dependent Performance Model
• Stephan Kraft, Sergio Pacheco-Sanchez, Giuliano Casale and Stephen Dawson. Estimating Service Resource Consumption From Response Time Measurements

Session 9: Markovian networks
Session Chair: Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA, France

• Peter Harrison and Maria Grazia Vigliotti. Perturbation of a non-product-form network into a new product-form: equilibrium state probabilities and response time density
• Thu Ha Dao Thi and Jean-Michel Fourneau. Complex Synchronizations in Markovian Models: a Tensor-based Proof of Product Form
• Peter van de Ven, Johan van Leeuwaarden, Dee Denteneer and Augustus Janssen. Spatial fairness in wireless multi-access networks
• Dario Bruneo, Marco Scarpa, Andrea Bobbio, Davide Cerotti and Marco Gribaudo. Analytical modeling of swarm intelligence in Wireless Sensor Networks

Session 10: Queueing 2 (invited papers selected by Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research)
Session Chair: Alexandre Proutiere, Microsoft Research, UK

• (invited) Florian Simatos, Lasse Leskela, Philippe Robert, Stability properties of linear file-sharing networks
• (invited) Neil Walton, Utility Optimization arising in Congested Queueing Networks
• (invited) James Cruise, A Scaling Framework for the Many Flows Asymptotic, through Large Deviations
• (invited) Thomas Bonald, A Recursive Formula for Estimating the Packet Loss Rate in IP Networks

Session 11: Queueing and Game Theory
Session Chair: Jean Mairesse, University of Paris 7, France

• Eitan Altman, Jocelyne Elias and Fabio Martignon. A Game Theoretic Framework for joint Routing and Pricing in Networks with Elastic Demands
• Elena Veronica Belmega and Samson Lasaulce. An information-theoretic look at mimo energy-efficient communications
• Sandeep Juneja and Rahul Jain. The Concert/Cafeteria Queueing Problem: a Game of Arrivals