MAMA 2007
the ninth annual workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis

June 13, 2007
San Diego, CA

Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS
Held in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS '07 and FCRC '07

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Opening Remarks (Wednesday, June 13, 8:30 - 8:45)

Session 1 (Wednesday, June 13, 8:45 - 9:45)

Poisson-Noise Suppression in Self-Similarity Studies Based on Packet-Counting
Gabriele Gianini and Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan)

Towards Understanding of Complex Communication Networks: Performance, Phase Transitions & Control
Vladimir Marbukh (US National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Coffee Break (9:45 - 10:15)

Session 2 (Wednesday, June 13, 10:15 - 11:15)

Accuracy of Measured Throughputs and Mean Response Times
Taka Osogami (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory)

Quantifying the Effect of Higher Moments of Job Size Distribution on the Performance of an M/G/s Queueing System
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University), Jim Dai, Bert Zwart (Georgia Institute of Technology)

FCRC Plenary (Wednesday, June 13, 11:30 - 12:30)

The Art of Reduction
Avi Wigderson (Princeton University)

Lunch (12:30 - 1:30)

Session 3 (Wednesday, June 13, 1:30 - 3:30)

Modeling and Evaluation of an Online TV Recording Service
Tobias Hossfeld (University of Wurzburg) and Kenji Leibnitz (Osaka University)

Capacity Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks
Peng Wang and Stephan Bohacek (University of Delaware)

Exponential Supermartingales for Evaluating End-to-End Backlog Bounds
Florin Ciucu (University of Virginia)

Insensitivity Properties for PS Server Farms with JSQ Routing
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon Univerity), Karl Sigman, Ward Whitt (Columbia University)

Coffee Break (3:30 - 4:00)

Session 4 (Wednesday, June 13, 4:00 - 6:30)

Characterization of Moments and Autocorrelation in MAPs
Giuliano Casale, Eddy Zhang, Evgenia Smirni (College of William & Mary)

Approximate Analysis of a Network of Fluid Queues
Tony Field and Pete Harrison (Imperial College London)

The Time-Correlated Update Problem
Josh Reich, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)

Product Form Stationary Distributions for Diffusion Approximations to a Flow-Level Model Operating under a Proportional Fair Sharing Policy
Weining Kang (Carnegie Mellon University), Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge), Nam Lee, Ruth Williams (University of California, San Diego)

Optimal Capacity Planning in Stochastic Loss Networks
Yingdong Lu, Ana Radovanovic, Mark Squillante (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)