Performance Evaluation, Volume 63

Volume 63, Number 1, January 2006

• Kimberly M. Wasserman, George Michailidis, Nicholas Bambos:
  Optimal processor allocation to differentiated job flows. 1-14
  
• Yoav Nebat, Moshe Sidi:
  Parallel downloads for streaming applications - a resequencing analysis. 15-35
  
• Zhen Liu, Laura Wynter, Cathy H. Xia, Fan Zhang:
  Parameter inference of queueing models for IT systems using end-to-end measurements. 36-60
  

Volume 63, Number 2, February 2006

• Polychronis Koutsakis, Michael Paterakis:
  A bandwidth reservation mechanism for prioritized multimedia integrated access with very high channel throughput in beyond 3G TDMA-based wireless networks. 61-78
  
• Atul Gupta, Vinod Sharma:
  A unified approach for analyzing persistent, non-persistent and ON-OFF TCP sessions in the Internet. 79-98
  
• Y. C. Tay, Min Zou:
  A page fault equation for modeling the effect of memory size. 99-130
  
• Nail Akar:
  Solving the ME/ME/1 queue with state-space methods and the matrix sign function. 131-145
  

Volume 63, Number 3, March 2006

• John C. S. Lui, Dan Rubenstein, Vishal Misra:
  P2P Computing Systems. 147-148
  
• Rossano Gaeta, Marco Gribaudo, Daniele Manini, Matteo Sereno:
  Analysis of resource transfers in peer-to-peer file sharing applications using fluid models. 149-174
  
• Xiangying Yang, Gustavo de Veciana:
  Performance of peer-to-peer networks: Service capacity and role of resource sharing policies. 175-194
  
• Haiying Shen, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Guihai Chen:
  Cycloid: A constant-degree and lookup-efficient P2P overlay network. 195-216
  
• Sonesh Surana, Brighten Godfrey, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Richard M. Karp, Ion Stoica:
  Load balancing in dynamic structured peer-to-peer systems. 217-240
  
• Christos Gkantsidis, Milena Mihail, Amin Saberi:
  Random walks in peer-to-peer networks: Algorithms and evaluation. 241-263
  

Volume 63, Numbers 4-5, May 2006

• Eduardo Javier Huerta Yero, Marco Aurélio Amaral Henriques:
  Contention-sensitive static performance prediction for parallel distributed applications. 265-277
  
• Johan van Leeuwaarden, Dee Denteneer, Jacques Resing:
  A discrete-time queueing model with periodically scheduled arrival and departure slots. 278-294
  
• Ana da Silva Soares, Guy Latouche:
  Matrix-analytic methods for fluid queues with finite buffers. 295-314
  
• Faouzi Kamoun:
  Performance analysis of a discrete-time queuing system with a correlated train arrival process. 315-340
  
• Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith:
  End-to-end latency of a fault-tolerant CORBA infrastructure. 341-363
  
• Samuel Kounev, Alejandro P. Buchmann:
  SimQPN - A tool and methodology for analyzing queueing Petri net models by means of simulation. 364-394
  
• Samuli Aalto, Janne Aaltonen, Jouni Karvo:
  Quantitative performance comparison of different content distribution modes. 395-422
  
• Ahmad Khonsari, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua:
  A performance model of compressionless routing in k-ary n-cube networks. 423-440
  
• Zhifei Li, Sukumar Nandi, Anil K. Gupta:
  Modeling the short-term unfairness of IEEE 802.11 in presence of hidden terminals. 441-462
  
• Mustafa Yuzukirmizi, J. MacGregor Smith:
  A customer threshold property for closed finite queueing networks. 463-492
  
• Andrzej Chydzinski:
  Duration of the buffer overflow period in a batch arrival queue. 493-508
  
• Vijay Sivaraman, Fabio M. Chiussi, Mario Gerla:
  Deterministic end-to-end delay guarantees with rate controlled EDF scheduling. 509-519
  

Volume 63, Number 6, June 2006

• Peter Kemper, William H. Sanders:
  Modelling techniques and tools for computer performance evaluation. 521-523
  
• Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter:
  Closed form solutions for mapping general distributions to quasi-minimal PH distributions. 524-552
  
• Armin Heindl, Kenneth Mitchell, Appie van de Liefvoort:
  Correlation bounds for second-order MAPs with application to queueing network decomposition. 553-577
  
• Gianfranco Ciardo, R. L. Jones III, Andrew S. Miner, Radu Siminiceanu:
  Logic and stochastic modeling with S m A r T. 578-608
  

Volume 63, Number 7, July 2006

• Nikolaos Laoutaris, Hao Che, Ioannis Stavrakakis:
  The LCD interconnection of LRU caches and its analysis. 609-634
  
• Andreas Mielke:
  Elements for response-time statistics in ERP transaction systems. 635-653
  
• De-An Wu, Hideaki Takagi:
  M/G/1 queue with multiple working vacations. 654-681
  
• Fumio Ishizaki:
  Loss probability in a finite queue with service interruptions and queue length distribution in the corresponding infinite queue. 682-699
  
• Cliff Changchun Zou, Donald F. Towsley, Weibo Gong:
  On the performance of Internet worm scanning strategies. 700-723
  

Volume 63, Number 8, August 2006

• Stefan Rank, Hans-Peter Schwefel:
  Transient analysis of RED queues: A quantitative analysis of buffer-occupancy fluctuations and relevant time-scales. 725-742
  
• B. M. M. Gijsen, Robert D. van der Mei, P. Engelberts, J. L. van den Berg, K. M. C. van Wingerden:
  Sojourn time approximations in queueing networks with feedback. 743-758
  
• Fernando Rodríguez Salazar, John R. Barker:
  Hamming hypermeshes: High performance interconnection networks for pin-out limited systems. 759-775
  
• Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, A. Krishnamoorthy, V. C. Joshua:
  Analysis of a multi-server retrial queue with search of customers from the orbit. 776-798
  
• Geert Jan Franx, Ger Koole, Auke Pot:
  Approximating multi-skill blocking systems by HyperExponential Decomposition. 799-824
  
• Xiuli Xu, Zhe George Zhang:
  Analysis of multi-server queue with a single vacation (e, d)-policy. 825-838
  

Volume 63, Numbers 9-10, October 2006

• Raphael Rom, Moshe Sidi, Hwee Pink Tan:
  Design and analysis of a class-aware recursive loop scheduler for class-based scheduling. 839-863
  
• Niklas Carlsson, Derek L. Eager, Mary K. Vernon:
  Multicast protocols for scalable on-demand download. 864-891
  
• Khalid Abdulaziz Alnowibet, Harry G. Perros:
  Nonstationary analysis of circuit-switched communication networks. 892-909
  
• Antonio Gómez-Corral, M. E. Martos:
  Performance of two-stage tandem queues with blocking: The impact of several flows of signals. 910-938
  
• Tsai Chi Huang, Linda M. Wills, Roy W. Melton, Cecil O. Alford:
  Predicting communication protocol performance on superscalar architectures using instruction dependency. 939-955
  
• Luciano Lenzini, Linda Martorini, Enzo Mingozzi, Giovanni Stea:
  Tight end-to-end per-flow delay bounds in FIFO multiplexing sink-tree networks. 956-987
  
• Josep Domènech, José A. Gil, Julio Sahuquillo, Ana Pont:
  Web prefetching performance metrics: A survey. 988-1004
  
• Xian Liu, Yupo Chan, Wilsun Xu:
  Stochastic programming methods applied to network optimization. 1005-1015
  
• Takuji Tachibana, Shoji Kasahara:
  Performance analysis of timer-based burst assembly with slotted scheduling for optical burst switching networks. 1016-1031
  
• Marco Gribaudo, Rossano Gaeta:
  Efficient steady-state analysis of second-order fluid stochastic Petri nets. 1032-1047
  

Volume 63, Number 11, November 2006

• Mohamed Ould-Khaoua:
  Performance modelling and evaluation of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. 1049-1050
  
• Luciano Bononi, Marco Di Felice, Lorenzo Donatiello, Danilo Blasi, Vincenzo Cacace, Luca Casone, Salvatore Rotolo:
  Design and performance evaluation of cross layered MAC and clustering solutions for wireless ad hoc networks. 1051-1073
  
• Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Athanasios Kinalis, Sotiris E. Nikoletseas:
  Adaptive techniques for proactive collision avoidance for multi-path data propagation in wireless sensor networks. 1074-1093
  
• Azzedine Boukerche, Khalil El-Khatib, Li Xu, Larry Korba:
  Performance evaluation of an anonymity providing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. 1094-1109
  
• Gang Ding, Xiaoxin Wu, Bharat K. Bhargava:
  Performance evaluation of multiple-rate mobile ad hoc networks. 1110-1126
  
• Mustafa Özdemir, A. Bruce McDonald:
  On the performance of ad hoc wireless LANs: A practical queuing theoretic model. 1127-1156
  

Volume 63, Number 12, December 2006

• Daniel C. Lee, Stephen L. Spitler:
  On the M(n)/G/infinity steady-state distribution. 1157-1164
  
• Juan A. Carrasco:
  Two methods for computing bounds for the distribution of cumulative reward for large Markov models. 1165-1195
  
• Hao Zhang, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Modeling and performance analysis of ad hoc broadcasting schemes. 1196-1215
  
• Amit Bose, Xiaoyue Jiang, Bin Liu, Gang Li:
  Analysis of manufacturing blocking systems with Network Calculus. 1216-1234
  
• Tom Maertens, Joris Walraevens, Herwig Bruneel:
  On priority queues with priority jumps. 1235-1252
  
• Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf:
  How many servers are best in a dual-priority M/PH/k system? 1253-1272