Tuesday (10 December)
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-11:00 Tutorial 1, Chair: Jean-Michel Fourneau
- Armin Zimmermann. Reliability Modelling and Evaluation of Dynamic Systems With Stochastic Petri Nets
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:30 Tutorial 2, Chair: Andrea Marin
- Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo, Pietro Piazzolla and Giuseppe Serazzi. Performance optimization with JMT: Java Modelling Tools
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Session 1 (4 regular, 20 minutes each + 2 tool, 10 minutes each)
Modeling and analysis methodologies and tools
Chair: Marco Gribaudo
- Alireza Pourranjbar and Jane Hillston. An Aggregation Technique for Large-scale PEPA Models With Non-uniform Population
- Luca Bortolussi and Mirco Tribastone. Differential Analysis of Interacting Automata with Immediate Actions
- Jane Hillston, Andrea Marin, Carla Piazza and Sabina Rossi. Contextual Lumpability
- Llorenc Cerda-Alabern. Closed Form Transient Solution of Continuous Time Markov Chains Through Uniformization
- Massimiliano De Pierro, Giuliana Franceschinis and Lorenzo Capra. A tool for symbolic manipulation of arc functions in Symmetric Net models (Tool Paper)
- Andrea Vandin and Stefano Sebastio. MultiVeStA: Statistical Model Checking for Discrete Event Simulators (Tool Paper)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Session 2 (3 regular, 20 minutes each + 1 tool, 10 minutes)
Network management
Chair: Sara Alouf
- Panayotis Mertikopoulos and Elena Veronica Belmega. Distributed Spectrum Management in MIMO-OFDM Cognitive Radio: An Exponential Learning Approach
- Sinem Kockan and David Starobinski. Admission Control and Profitability Analysis in Dynamic Spectrum Access Data Networks
- Kazutomo Kobayashi and Yukio Takahashi. Tractable Effective Bandwidths for End-to-end Evaluation and Fractional Brownian Motion Traffic
- Michael Frey, Friedrich Große and Mesut Günes. libARA: A framework for simulation and testbed based studies on ant routing algorithms in wireless multi-hop networks (Tool Paper)
Wednesday (11 December)
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:15 Keynote, Chair: Luca Muscariello
- Jim Roberts. Be fair to flows: a fair network is attractive and trustworthy and far more than just adequate
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Session 3 (3 regular, 20 minutes each + 1 tool, 10 minutes)
Content networking
Chair: Mirco Tribastone
- Nicaise Eric Choungmo Fofack and Sara Alouf. Modeling modern DNS caches
- Philippe Olivier and Alain Simonian. Performance of a cache with Random Replacement and Zipf document popularity
- Marily Nika, Gergana Ivanova and William J. Knottenbelt. On Celebrity, Epidemiology and the Internet
- Mattia Zeni, Daniele Miorandi and Francesco De Pellegrini. YOUStatAnalyzer: a Tool for Analysing the Dynamics of YouTube Content Popularity (Tool Paper)
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Session 4 (3 regular, 20 minutes each)
Network scheduling and congestion control
Chair: Yezekael Hayel
- Fabien Geyer, Stefan Schneele and Georg Carle. Practical Performance Evaluation of Ethernet Networks with Flow-Level Network Modeling
- Max Tschaikowski and Mirco Tribastone. Insensitivity to Service-time Distributions for Fluid Queueing Models
- Fabrice Guillemin and Alain Simonian. Analysis of the Shortest Queue First service discipline with two classes
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:15 Session 5 (4 regular, 20 minutes each) (Room 1)
Game theory applications in networking
Chair: Panayotis Mertikopoulos
- Nesrine Ben Khalifa, El-Azouzi Rachid, Yezekael Hayel and Habib Sidi. Evolutionary Stable Strategies in Interacting Communities
- Olivier Brun, Balakrishna J. Prabhu and Tatiana Seregina. On the convergence of the best-response algorithm in routing games
- Andrey Garnaev, Yezekael Hayel and Eitan Altman. Multilevel Pricing Schemes in a Deregulated Wireless Network Market
- Mohamed Lamine Lamali, Hélia Pouyllau, Johanne Cohen, Anne Bouillard and Dominique Barth. Risk-Aware SLA Negotiation
15:30-17:15 Special session (Room 2)
Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems
Chair: Andras Horvath
- Marcello Colledani. Analytical methods to support the configuration and reconfiguration of manufacturing and assembly systems
- Chanaka Senanayake. Decomposition based methods for the analysis of multiple part-type production lines with non-negligible set-up times in the production of LCDs
- Walter Terkaj and Marcello Urgo. Integrated Virtual Platform for Manufacturing Systems Design
19:00- Social Event
- Guided tour and buffet dinner at the Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana of Turin (Via della Consolata, 1bis, https://www.palazzosaluzzopaesana.it/)
Thursday (12 December)
08:30-10:30 Session 6 (4 regular, 20 minutes each + 2 tool, 10 minutes each)
Applications
Chair: Gabor Horvath
- Benny Van Houdt. Analysis of the d-choices garbage collection algorithm with memory in flash-based SSDs
- Laura Carnevali, Marco Paolieri, Fabio Tarani and Enrico Vicario. Quantitative evaluation of availability measures of gas distribution networks
- Hamed Ghasemieh, Anne Remke and Boudewijn Haverkort. Analysis of a sewage treatment facility using hybrid Petri nets
- Enrico Barbierato, Marco Gribaudo and Mauro Iacono. Modeling Apache Hive based applications in Big Data architectures
- Massimo Canonico, Andrea Lombardo and Irene Lovotti. CloudTUI: a multi Cloud platform Text User Interface (Tool Paper)
- Andrea Sansottera and Paolo Cremonesi. Optimal virtual machine scheduling with Anvik (Tool Paper)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Session 7 (4 regular, 20 minutes each + 2 tool, 10 minutes each)
Queueing Networks
Chair: Benny Van Houdt
- Dieter Fiems and Koen De Turck. A series expansion approach for finite-capacity processor sharing queues
- Thu Ha Dao Thi, Jean-Michel Fourneau and Minh-Anh Tran. Network of Queues with Inert Customers and Signals
- Simonetta Balsamo, Gian-Luca Dei Rossi and Andrea Marin. Queueing networks and conditional product-forms
- Dirk van Zwieten, Ivo Adan and Erjen Lefeber. Optimal steady-state and transient trajectories of a two queue switching server
- Michael Beck and Jens Schmitt. The DISCO Stochastic Network Calculator Version 1.0 - When Waiting Comes to an End (Tool Paper)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-16:15 Session 8 (4 regular, 20 minutes each + 2 tool, 10 minutes each)
Stochastic analysis and results
Chair: Peter Buchholz
- Jerome Casse and Muriel Medard. Only the source's and sink's neighborhood matters: convergence results for unicast and multicast connections on random graphs and hypergraphs
- Gabor Horvath. Matching marginal moments and lag autocorrelations with MAPs
- Esa Hyytia and Samuli Aalto. Round-Robin Routing Policy: Value Functions and Mean Performance with Job- and Server-specific Costs
- Alessio Angius and Marcello Colledani. Transient analysis of Asynchronous Markovian production lines by quasi product form
- Daniele Codetta-Raiteri and Luigi Portinale. A GSPN based tool to inference Generalized Continuous Time Bayesian Networks (Tool Paper)
- Leonardo Montecchi, Paolo Lollini and Andrea Bondavalli. Designing a Reusable Modular Toolchain for Automated Dependability Evaluation (Tool Paper)