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Individual papers are available as PDFs, linked below. Entire proceedings as one file (402 pages, 36 MB); Front matter, End matter.

Research papers

Performance Prediction and Procurement in Practice: Assessing the Suitability of Commodity Cluster Components for Wavefront Codes

S.D. Hammond, G.R. Mudalige, J.A. Smith and S.A. Jarvis

Restart in Competitive Environments

Katinka Wolter and Phillip Reinecke

A PEPA model of a threshold policy sleeping server

Nigel Thomas

A Middleware for Activating the Global Open Grid

Jeremy Cohen, Colin Richardson and John Darlington

The performance of locality-aware topologies for peer-to-peer live streaming

Richard G. Clegg, David Griffin, Raul Landa, Eleni Mykoni and Miguel Rio

Terminating Passage-Time Calculations on Uniformised Markov Chains

Allan Clark and Stephen Gilmore

Which battery model to use?

Marijn R. Jongerden and Boudewijn R. Haverkort

Analytical TCP Throughput Model for HSDPA

Levente Bodrog, Gabor Horvath and Csaba Vulkan

Rare Event Simulation of Stochastic Activity Networks Using Partition of the Region Technique

Amir Jalaly Bidgoly and Mohammed Abdollahi Azgomi

From architecture to SWN models for compositional performance analysis of Component Based Systems: application to CCM based systems

Nabila Salmi, Patrice Moreaux and Malik Ioualalen

Mapping WSLA on Reward Constructs in Moebius

Rouaa Yassin Kassab and Aad van Morsel

Representative Intervals for trace-based Performance Analysis of Mobile Phones

Lukas Pustina, Simon Schwarzer and Peter Martini

Fluid flow analysis of a model of a secure key distribution centre

Nigel Thomas and Yishi Zhao

Queueing Networks for the Performance Evaluation of Database Designs

Rasha Osman, Irfan Awan and Michael E. Woodward

Construction of novel continuous time Markovian queues for exact solution

David Thornley

A System for Dynamic Server Allocation in Application Server Clusters

A.P. Chester, J.W.J. Xue, L. He and S.A. Jarvis

The role of client behaviour in the performance analysis of eCommerce systems

D.R.W. Holton, I.U. Awan and M. Younas

Fine Grain Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Low Power Portable Devices with Dynamic Power Management

Yuan Chen, Fei Xia, Delong Shang and Alex Yakolev

A New Distributed Duty-cycle Management Technique for Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks

Jin Wu and Zhili Sun

Validation of Large Zoned RAID Systems

Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle and William J. Knottenbelt

Response time distributions via reversed processes

Peter G. Harrison and Maria G. Vigliotti

Multipath Distance Vector Zone Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks MDVZRPA

Idris Skloul Ibrahim , A. Etorban and Dr Peter J.B King

A Guided Subsystem Performance Assessment Architecture for Grid Service

Jin Wu, Yichao Yang, Yanbo Zhou, Linghang Fan and Zhili Sun

RAD Analysis of Adjusted Counter Based Broadcast in MANETs

Sarah O. al-Humoud, Lewis M. Mackenzie, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua and Jamaldeen Abdulai

Simulation of a tandem router system for mobile network traffic with different source traffic distributions

Aisha Khan

Parallelization of a Simulation of a peer to peer market for Grid Computing

Fernando Martinez Ortuno

On the componentization of queue solution methods

David Thornley

State-Space Size Estimation By Least-Squares Fitting

Nicholas J. Dingle and William J. Knottenbelt

Hypercube Communication Structures Analysis Via Parametric Petri Nets

D.A Zaitsev and T.R. Shmeleva

Keynotes

Capacity Management views

Adam Grummitt

Large-Scale Parallel Computing on Grids

Henri Bal

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