Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
June 17 - 21, 2013

 Schedule

The schedule for the conference program is now available. Click on the schedule below to see the full version.

 Program

Session 1: WiFi and Cellular Networks (Tuesday 11:00am to 12:30pm)
Session Chair: Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)

Practical Conflict Graphs for Dynamic Spectrum Distribution
Xia Zhou (UC Santa Barbara)
Zengbin Zhang (UC Santa Barbara)
Gang Wang (UC Santa Barbara)
Xiaoxiao Yu (Tsinghua University)
Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara)
Haitao Zheng (UC Santa Barbara)

A First Look at Cellular Network Performance during Crowded Events
M. Zubair Shafiq (Michigan State University)
Lusheng Ji (AT&T Labs -- Research)
Alex X. Liu (Michigan State University)
Jeffrey Pang (AT&T Labs -- Research)
Shobha Venkataraman (AT&T Labs -- Research)
Jia Wang (AT&T Labs -- Research)

Characterizing and Modeling the Impact of Wireless Signal Strength on Smartphone Battery Drain
Ning Ding (Purdue University)
Daniel Wagner (Cambridge University)
Xiaomeng Chen (Purdue University)
Abhinav Pathak (Purdue University)
Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University)
Andrew Rice (Cambridge University)

Session 2: Resource Allocation and Generation (Tuesday 2:00pm to 3:30pm)
Session Chair: Ton Dieker (Georgia Institute of Technology

A large-scale service system with packing constraints: minimizing the number of occupied servers
Alexander L. Stolyar (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
Yuan Zhong (University of California, Berkeley)

Online Energy Generation Scheduling for Microgrids with Intermittent Energy Sources and Co-Generation
Lian Lu (Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jinlong Tu (Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute)
Minghua Chen (Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Xiaojun Lin (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

Defragmenting the Cloud Using Demand-based Resource Allocation
Ganesha Shanmuganathan (VMware Inc.)
Ajay Gulati (VMware Inc.)
Peter Varman (Rice University)

Session 3: Applications of Machine Learning (Tuesday 4:00pm to 5:30pm)
Session Chair: Anwar Walid (Bell Labs)

Efficient crowd-sourcing
David R. Karger (MIT)
Sewoong Oh (UIUC)
Devavrat Shah (MIT)

Root cause detection in a service-oriented architecture
Myunghwan Kim (Stanford University)
Roshan Sumbaly (LinkedIn Corp)
Sam Shah (LinkedIn Corp)

The Design Space of Probing Algorithms for Network-Performance Measurement
Aaron D. Jaggard (Rutgers University)
Swara Kopparty (Harvard University)
Vijay Ramachandran (Colgate University)
Rebecca N. Wright (Rutgers University)

Session 4: MAC and Wireless Access Networks (Wednesday 11:00am to 12:30pm)
Session Chair: Gil Zussman (Columbia University)

Delays and Mixing Times in Random-Access Networks
Niek Bouman (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology & Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
Johan van Leeuwaarden (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Scheduling of Users with Markovian Time-Varying Service Rates
Fabio Cecchi (University of Pisa and BCAM)
Peter Jacko (BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)

Lingering Issues in Distributed Scheduling
Florian Simatos (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Niek Bouman (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology & Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)

Session 5: Queueing Theory (Wednesday 2:00pm to 3:00pm)
Session Chair: Urtzi Ayesta (LAAS-CNRS)

Exact Analysis of the M/M/k/setup Class of Markov Chains via Recursive Renewal Reward
Anshul Gandhi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sherwin Doroudi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University)
Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University)

Queueing System Topologies with Limited Flexibility
John N. Tsitsiklis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kuang Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session 6: Nonvolatile Memories (Wednesday 3:30pm to 5:30pm)
Session Chair: Christopher Stewart (Ohio State University)

Stochastic Modeling of Large-Scale Solid-state Storage Systems: Analysis, Design Tradeoffs and Optimization
Yongkun Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Patrick P.C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

A mean field model for a class of garbage collection algorithms in flash-based solid state drives
Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp)

Revisiting Widely Held SSD Expectations and Rethinking System-Level Implications
Myoungsoo Jung (The Pennsylvania State University)
Mahmut Kandemir (The Pennsylvania State University)

Characterizing the Impact of Process Variation on Write Endurance Enhancing Techniques for Non-Volatile Memory Systems
Marcelo Cintra (Intel)
Niklas Linkewitsch (Intel)

Session 7: On Co-Optimizing Content Placement and Traffic Routing (Thursday 9:30am to 10:30am)
Session Chair: Y. C. Tay (National University of Singapore)

Distributing Content Simplifies ISP Traffic Engineering
Abhigyan Sharma (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Arun Venkataramani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ramesh Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Akamai Technologies)

Quantifying the Benefits of Joint Content and Network Routing
Vytautas Valancius (Georgia Tech)
Bharath Ravi (Georgia Tech)
Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech)
Alex C. Snoeren (UC San Diego)

Session 8: Computer Architectures and Systems (Thursday 11:00am to 12:30pm)
Session Chair: Bhuvan Urgaonkar (The Pennsylvania State University)

High-Throughput Low-Latency Fine-Grained Disk Logging
Dilip Simha (Stony Brook University and Industrial Technology Research Institute)
Ganesh Karuppur Rajagopalan (Stony Brook University)
Pallav Bose (Stony Brook University)
Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook University and Industrial Technology Research Institute)

On Understanding the Energy Consumption of ARM-based Multicore Servers
Bogdan Marius Tudor (National University of Singapore)
Yong Meng Teo (National University of Singapore)

Reuse-based Online Models for Caches
Rathijit Sen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
David A. Wood (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Session 9: Optimizing Paths down a Tree or a Network (Thursday 2:00pm to 3:30pm)
Session Chair: Florin Ciucu (TU Berlin)

Probabilistic Optimal Tree Hopping for RFID Identification
Muhammad Shahzad (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University)
Alex X. Liu (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University)

Multipath TCP Algorithms: Theory and Design
Qiuyu Peng (EE, California Institute of Technology)
Anwar Walid (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent)
Steven H. Low (CMS & EE, California Institute of Technology)

Trap Array: A Unified Model for Scalability Evaluation of Geometric Routing
Guang Tan (SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Zhimeng Yin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Hongbo Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)