@InProceedings{spand,
  author = 	 "Srinivasan Seshan and Mark Stemm and Randy H. Katz",
  title = 	 "{SPAND}: Shared Passing Network Performance Discovery",
  pages =	 "135--46",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies 
                    and Systems",
  year =	 1997,
  month =	 "December",
  annote =	 "passively discover the network conditions by
		  monitoring connections with a promiscuous machine on
		  the local network"
}
@InProceedings{quake,
  author = 	 "D.R. {O'Hallaron} and J. R. Shewchuk and T. Gross",
  title = 	 "Architectural Implications of a Family of Irregular Applications",
  pages =	 "80--89",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on
		  High Performance Computer Architecture",
  year =	 1998,
  month =	 "February",
  annote =       "analysis of compute/communicate ratios and
		  implications for efficiency on different execution
		  environments, using quake as motivating example"
}
@InProceedings{nws,
  author = 	 "Rich Wolski",
  title = 	 "Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance to
		  Support Dynamic Scheduling Using the Network Weather
		  Service",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the 6th High-Performance Distributed
		  Computing Conference (HPDC)",
  year =	 1997,
  month =	 "August"
}
@InProceedings{remos,
  author = 	 "Bruce Lowekamp and Nancy Miller and Dean Sutherland
		  and Thomas Gross and Peter Steenkiste and Jaspal
		  Subhlok",
  title = 	 "A Resource Monitoring System for
		  Network-Aware Applications",
  pages =	 "189--196",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the 7th {IEEE} International
		  Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing ({HPDC})",
  year =	 1998,
  organization = "{IEEE}",
  month =	 "July"
}
@Article{poisson-failure,
  author = 	 "Vern Paxson and Sally Floyd",
  title = 	 "Wide-Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling",
  journal =	 "{IEEE/ACM} Transactions on Networking",
  year =	 1995,
  volume =	 3,
  number =	 3,
  pages =	 "226--244",
  month =	 "June",
  annote =	 "discusses different traffic sources (pre www) and
		  demonstrates that they are not poisson.  detailed
		  discussion of pareto distribution"
}

@InProceedings{bolliger-passive,
  author = 	 "J. Bolliger and T. Gross and U. Hengartner",
  title = 	 "Bandwidth Modelling for Network-Aware Applications",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of Infocomm'99",
  year =	 1999,
  note =	 "to appear",
  annote =	 "discusses monitoring of TCP connections (various
		  ranges, including transatlantic) using TCP built-in
		  measurements.  Includes ``fixed'' TCP protocols such
		  as SACK"
}

@InProceedings{wan-olympics,
  author = 	 "Hari Balakrishnan and Mark Stemm and Srinivasan
		  Seshan and Randy H. Katz",
  title = 	 "Analyzing Stability in Wide-Area Network Performance",
  pages =	 "2--12",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of SIGMETRICS'97",
  year =	 1997,
  publisher =	 "{ACM}",
  annote =	 "Study of traffic to olympic web site during
		  olympics.  finds spatial and temporal correlation in
		  performance.  log-normal throughput distribution"
}