Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges

1. Front Matter

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2. Milestones and Evolutions

   1. Disappointments and Delights, Fears and Hopes Induced by a Few Decades in Performance Evaluation

      • Raymond A. Marie

      Pages 1-9

   2. Model Interoperability for Performance Engineering: Survey of Milestones and Evolution

      • Connie U. Smith, Catalina M. Lladó

      Pages 10-23

   3. Tools for Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Historical Evolution and Perspectives

      • Giuliano Casale, Marco Gribaudo, Giuseppe Serazzi

      Pages 24-37

3. Trends: Green ICT and Virtual Machines

   1. Energy: A New Criteria for Performances in Large Scale Distributed Systems

      • Jean-Marc Pierson

      Pages 38-48

   2. From the Origins of Performance Evaluation to New Green ICT Performance Engineering

      • Carlos Juiz, Ramon Puigjaner

      Pages 49-60

   3. Predicting Disk Scheduling Performance with Virtual Machines

      • Robert Geist, Zachary H. Jones, James Westall

      Pages 61-72

4. Modeling

   1. Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Using Finite-Source Retrial Queues with Unreliable Orbit

      • Patrick Wüchner, János Sztrik, Hermann de Meer

      Pages 73-86

   2. Markov Chains and Spectral Clustering

      • Ning Liu, William J. Stewart

      Pages 87-98

   3. On the Analysis of Queues with Heavy Tails: A Non-Extensive Maximum Entropy Formalism and a Generalisation of the Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution

      • Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Salam A. Assi

      Pages 99-111

   4. Performance Evaluation with Hidden Markov Models

      • E. de Souza e Silva, R. M. M. Leão, Richard R. Muntz

      Pages 112-128

   5. Network Protocol Performance Bounding Exploiting Properties of Infinite Dimensional Linear Equations

      • Ioannis Stavrakakis

      Pages 129-140

5. Mobility and Mobile Networks

   1. Modelling Social-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks

      • Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella

      Pages 141-152

   2. On Lookahead Strategy for Movement-Based Location Update: A General Formulation

      • Vicente Casares-Giner

      Pages 153-166

   3. Bayesian Estimation of Network-Wide Mean Failure Probability in 3G Cellular Networks

      • Angelo Coluccia, Fabio Ricciato, Peter Romirer-Maierhofer

      Pages 167-178

   4. Time Is Perception Is Money – Web Response Times in Mobile Networks with Application to Quality of Experience

      • Markus Fiedler, Patrik Arlos, Timothy A. Gonsalves, Anuraag Bhardwaj, Hans Nottehed

      Pages 179-190

6. Communication and Computer Networks

   1. On Traffic Domination in Communication Networks

      • Walid Ben-Ameur, Pablo Pavon-Marino, Michał Pióro

      Pages 191-202

   2. Improving Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Thinning Process

      • Monique Becker, Ashish Gupta, Michel Marot, Harmeet Singh

      Pages 203-214

7. Load Balancing, Analysis, and Management

   1. AWPS – An Architecture for Pro-active Web Performance Management

      • Gabriele Kotsis, Martin Pinzger

      Pages 215-226

   2. Analysis of Web Logs: Challenges and Findings

      • Maria Carla Calzarossa, Luisa Massari

      Pages 227-239

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Günter Haring on the occasion of his emerital celebration and contains invited papers by key researchers in the field of performance evaluation presented at the workshop Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems - Milestones and Future Challenges, PERFORM 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, in October 2010. Günter Haring has dedicated most of his scientific professional life to performance evaluation and the design of distributed systems, contributing in particular to the field of workload characterization. In addition to his own contributions and leadership in international research projects, he is and has been an excellent mentor of young researchers demonstrated by their own brilliant scientific careers. The 20 thoroughly refereed papers range from visionary to in-depth research papers and are organized in the following topical sections: milestones and evolutions; trends: green ICT and virtual machines; modeling; mobility and mobile networks; communication and computer networks; and load balancing, analysis, and management.

• Web services
• graph theory
• model interoperability
• quality of experience
• self-organization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Research Group Entertainment, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Karin Anna Hummel, Helmut Hlavacs

• Research Group Theory and Applications of Algorithms, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Wilfried Gansterer

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