UKPEW 2008

24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop

Proceedings

Queen's Tower at Imperial College London

Picture of Queen's Tower by Uli Harder, some rights reserved.

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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