SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 46

Volume 46, Number 1, June 2018

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  Konstantinos Psounis, Aditya Akella, Adam Wierman:
  Abstracts of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2018, Irvine, CA, USA, June 18-22, 2018. ACM 2018 [contents]

Volume 46, Number 2, September 2018

Special Issue on the Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2018)

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  Mark S. Squillante:
  Special Issue on The Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2018). 2
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  Hong Xie, John C. S. Lui:
  A Markov Decision Process Approach to Analyze Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems. 3-5
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  Yudong Yang, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein:
  A Modeling Approach to Classifying Malicious Cloud Users via Shuffling. 6-8
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  Isaac Grosof, Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter:
  SRPT for Multiserver Systems. 9-11
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  Yorie Nakahira, Andrés Ferragut, Adam Wierman:
  Minimal-variance distributed scheduling under strict demands and deadlines. 12-14
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  Xin Liu, Lei Ying:
  A Simple Steady-State Analysis of Load Balancing Algorithms in the Sub-Halfin-Whitt Regime. 15-17
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  Debankur Mukherjee, Alexander L. Stolyar:
  Join-Idle-Queue with Service Elasticity. 18-20
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  Xiao Sun, Tan N. Le, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Zhenhua Liu:
  Fair Allocation of Heterogeneous and InterchangeableResources. 21-23
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  Urtzi Ayesta:
  On redundancy-d with cancel-on-start a.k.a Join-shortest-work (d). 24-26
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  Nitish K. Panigrahy, Prithwish Basu, Don Towsley, Ananthram Swami, Kevin S. Chan, Kin K. Leung:
  A queueing-theoretic model for resource allocation in one-dimensional distributed analytics network? 27-29
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  Nicolas Gast, Diego Latella, Mieke Massink:
  A Refined Mean Field Approximation for Synchronous Population Processes. 30-32
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  Seva Shneer, Alexander L. Stolyar:
  Stability of a standard decentralised medium access. 33-35
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  Anirudh Sabnis, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Donald F. Towsley:
  OCCAM: An Optimization Based Approach to Network Inference. 36-38
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  Junjie Qin, Ram Rajagopal, Shai Vardi, Adam Wierman:
  Convex Prophet Inequalities. 39-41
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  Gautam Goel:
  Smoothed Online Convex Optimization via Online Balanced Descent. 42-44
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  Soumyadip Ghosh, Mark S. Squillante, Ebisa D. Wollega:
  On Min-Max Optimization Over Large Data Sets. 45-47

Special Issue on the Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security (CINS) 2018

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  My T. Thai, Arunabha Sen, Arun Das:
  ACM SIGMETRICS International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security. 48-49
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  Saleh Soltan, Mihalis Yannakakis, Gil Zussman:
  REACT to Cyber-Physical Attacks on Power grids (Extended Abstract). 50-51
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  Linan Huang, Quanyan Zhu:
  Adaptive Strategic Cyber Defense for Advanced Persistent Threats in Critical Infrastructure Networks. 52-56
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  Linqi Guo, Chen Liang, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman:
  Failure Localization in Power Systems via Tree Partitions. 57-61
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  Jorik Oostenbrink, Fernando A. Kuipers, Poul E. Heegaard, Bjarne E. Helvik:
  Evaluating Local Disaster Recovery Strategies. 62-66
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  Hana Khamfroush, Samuel Lofumbwa Iloo, Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini:
  Vulnerability of Interdependent Infrastructures Under Random Attacks. 67-71
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  Andjelka Kelic:
  Cyber Risk in Critical Infrastructure. 72-75

Special Issue on the Work-In-Progress session at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2018 Conference

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  Zhenhua Liu, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan:
  Special Issue on the Work-in-Progress (WIP) session at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2018 Conference. 76
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  Tan N. Le, Xiao Sun, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Zhenhua Liu:
  BoPF: Mitigating the Burstiness-Fairness Tradeoff in Multi-Resource Clusters. 77-78
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  Linqi Guo, Chen Liang, Alessandro Zocca, Steven H. Low, Adam Wierman:
  Failure Localization in Power Systems via Tree Partitions. 79-80
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  Daniela Hurtado-Lange, Siva Theja Maguluri:
  A Novel View of the Drift: Method for Heavy Traffic Limits of Queueing Systems. 81-82
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  Yichen Ruan, Carlee Joe-Wong:
  On the Economic Value of Vehicular Caching. 83-84
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  Junjie Qin, Ram Rajagopal, Shai Vardi, Adam Wierman:
  Convex Prophet Inequalities. 85-86
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  Tan N. Le, Xiao Sun, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Zhenhua Liu:
  AlloX: Allocation across Computing Resources for Hybrid CPU/GPU clusters. 87-88
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  Jinhang Zuo, Xiaoxi Zhang, Carlee Joe-Wong:
  Observe Before Play: Multi-armed Bandit with Pre-Observations. 89-90
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  Justin Wang, Benjamin Berg, Daniel S. Berger, Siddhartha Sen:
  Maximizing Page-Level Cache Hit Ratios in LargeWeb Services. 91-92
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  Zhihui Shao, Mohammad A. Islam, Shaolei Ren:
  A First Look at Thermal Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers. 93-94
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  Shan-Hsiang Shen:
  An Efficient Network Monitor for SDN Networks. 95-96

Volume 46, Number 3, December 2018

Keynote talk: Leandros Tassiulas

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  Leandros Tassiulas:
  Optimizing the network edge for flexible service provisioning. 1

Session 1: Parallel servers

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  Weina Wang, Mor Harchol-Balter, Haotian Jiang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, R. Srikant:
  Delay Asymptotics and Bounds for Multi-Task Parallel Jobs. 2-7
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  Isaac Grosof, Ziv Scully, Mor Harchol-Balter:
  SRPT for Multiserver Systems. 8-9
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  Xingyu Zhou, Jian Tan, Ness B. Shroff:
  Flexible Load Balancing with Multi-dimensional State-space Collapse: Throughput and Heavy-traffic Delay Optimality. 10-11

Session 2: Models and Analysis of Novel Technologies I

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  Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou, George Darzanos, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Iordanis Koutsopoulos:
  Joint User Association, Content Caching and Recommendations in Wireless Edge Networks. 12-17
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  Yung Fei Wong, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu:
  Hidden semi-Markov models for electricity load disaggregation. 18-23
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  Arash Molavi Kakhki, Vijay Erramilli, Phillipa Gill, Augustin Chaintreau, Balachander Krishnamurthy:
  Information Market for Web Browsing: Design, Usability and Incremental Adoption. 24

Session 3: Limiting regimes

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  Nicolas Gast, Luca Bortolussi, Mirco Tribastone:
  Size Expansions of Mean Field Approximation: Transient and Steady-State Analysis. 25-26
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  Paola Bermolen, Matthieu Jonckheere, Federico Larroca, Manuel Sáenz:
  Degree-Greedy Algorithms on Large Random Graphs. 27-32
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  Moeko Yajima, Tuan Phung-Duc:
  A central limit theorem for a Markov-modulated infinite-server queue with batch Poisson arrivals and binomial catastrophes. 33-34

Session 4: Caching and storage

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  Lianjie Shi, Xin Wang, Richard T. B. Ma, Y. C. Tay:
  Weighted Fair Caching: Occupancy-Centric Allocation for Space-Shared Resources. 35-36
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  Niklas Carlsson, Derek L. Eager:
  Worst-case Bounds and Optimized Cache on Mth Request Cache Insertion Policies under Elastic Conditions. 37-38
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  Fan Ni, Xingbo Wu, Weijun Li, Lei Wang, Song Jiang:
  WOJ: Enabling Write-Once Full-data Journaling in SSDs by Using Weak-Hashing-based Deduplication. 39-40

Session 5: Network economics

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  Stéphane Durand, Federica Garin, Bruno Gaujal:
  Efficiency of Best Response Dynamics with High Playing Rates in Potential Games. 41-42
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  Ayman Chouayakh, Aurélien Bechler, Isabel Amigo, Loutfi Nuaymi, Patrick Maillé:
  Auction mechanisms for Licensed Shared Access: reserve prices and revenue-fairness trade offs. 43-48
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  Mao Zou, Richard T. B. Ma, Yinlong Xu:
  Towards An Efficient Market Mediator for Divisible Resources. 49-50

Keynote talk: Patrick Thiran

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  Patrick Thiran:
  Locating the Source of Diffusion in Large-scale and Random Networks. 51

Session 6: Scheduling and resource sharing

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  Alessandro Zocca:
  Temporal starvation in multi-channel CSMA networks: an analytical framework. 52-53
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  Thirupathaiah Vasantam, Arpan Mukhopadhyay, Ravi R. Mazumdar:
  The Mean-field Behavior of Processor Sharing Systems with General Job Lengths Under the SQ(d) Policy. 54-55
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  Yorie Nakahira, Andrés Ferragut, Adam Wierman:
  Minimal-Variance Distributed Deadline Scheduling in a Stationary Environment. 56-61

Session 7: Models and Analysis of Novel Technologies II

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  Martin Zeballos, Andrés Ferragut, Fernando Paganini:
  Achieving fairness for EV charging in overload: a fluid approach. 62-67
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  Eduardo M. Hargreaves, Claudio Agosti, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Giovanni Neglia, Alexandre Reiffers-Masson, Eitan Altman:
  Fairness in Online Social Network Timelines: Measurements, Models and Mechanism Design. 68-69
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  Julien Floquet, Richard Combes, Zwi Altman:
  Hierarchical Beamforming: Resource Allocation, Fairness and Flow Level Performance. 70-71

Session 8: Redundancy Models

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  Youri Raaijmakers, Sem C. Borst, Onno J. Boxma:
  Delta probing policies for redundancy. 72-73
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  Tim Hellemans, Benny Van Houdt:
  Analysis of Redundancy(d) with Identical Replicas. 74-79
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  Urtzi Ayesta, Tejas Bodas, Ina Maria Verloop:
  On a unifying product form framework for redundancy models. 80-81

Workshop ePerf: Performance and Modelling of Energy Systems

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  Catherine Rosenberg:
  Highlight Talk on Battery Modeling: Trade-offs between Accuracy and Complexity. 82-83
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  Omid Ardakanian:
  Leveraging Sparsity in Distribution Grids: System Identification and Harmonic State Estimation. 84-85
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  Dominik Danner, Hermann de Meer:
  State Estimation in the Power Distribution System. 86-88
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  Benoît Vinot, Florent Cadoux, Nicolas Gast:
  Congestion Avoidance in Low-Voltage Networks by using the Advanced Metering Infrastructure. 89-91
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  Yujie Tang, Emiliano Dall'Anese, Andrey Bernstein, Steven H. Low:
  A Primal-Dual Gradient Method for Time-Varying Optimization with Application to Power Systems. 92

Workshop PESN: Performance evaluation of satellite networks

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  Nader Alagha:
  Satellite Air Interface Evolutions in the 5G and IoT Era. 93-95
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  Maria Rita Palattella, Ridha Soua, André Stemper, Thomas Engel:
  Aggregation of MQTT Topics over Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks. 96-97
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  Doanh Kim Luong, Muhammad Ali, Fouad Benamrane, Ibrahim Ammar, Yim-Fun Hu:
  Seamless handover for video streaming over an SDN-based Aeronautical Communications Network. 98-99
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  Joan Bas, Màrius Caus, Ana Pérez, M. Reza Soleymani, Nazli Ahmad Khan Beigi:
  Interference Management Schemes for High Spectral Efficiency Satellite Communications. 100-103
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  Julio A. Medina-Caballero, M. Angeles Vazquez-Castro:
  Link Quality Optimization for Hybrid LEO-GSO Systems. 104-107
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  Philip Michael Asuquo, Haitham S. Cruickshank, Chibueze P. Anyigor Ogah:
  Securing Emergency Communications for the Next-Generation Networks: Performance Analysis of Distributed Trust Computing for Future Emergency Communications. 108-111
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  Nicolas Kuhn:
  Research trends in SATCOM. 112

Workshop SOCCA: Symposium on Cryptocurrency Analysis

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  Aad van Moorsel:
  Benchmarks and Models for Blockchain: Consensus Algorithms. 113
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  Eitan Altman, Alexandre Reiffers, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Mandar Datar, Swapnil Dhamal, Corinne Touati:
  Mining competition in a multi-cryptocurrency ecosystem at the network edge: a congestion game approach. 114-117
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  Manuel Zander, Tom Waite, Dominik Harz:
  DAGsim: Simulation of DAG-based distributed ledger protocols. 118-121
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  Saulo Ricci, Eduardo Ferreira, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Artur Ziviani, José Eduardo de Souza, Alex Borges Vieira:
  Learning Blockchain Delays: A Queueing Theory Approach. 122-125
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  Cyril Grunspan, Ricardo Pérez-Marco:
  On profitability of block withholding strategies. 126
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  Francesco Bruschi, Vincenzo Rana, Lorenzo Gentile, Donatella Sciuto:
  Mine with it or sell it: the superhashing power dilemma. 127-130
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  Nico Smuts:
  What Drives Cryptocurrency Prices?: An Investigation of Google Trends and Telegram Sentiment. 131-134
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  Maher Alharby, Aad van Moorsel:
  BlockSim: A Simulation Framework for Blockchain Systems. 135-138

Workshop WAIN: Workshop on AI in Networks

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  Vladyslav Fedchenko, Giovanni Neglia, Bruno Ribeiro:
  Feedforward Neural Networks for Caching: n Enough or Too Much? 139-142
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  Martino Trevisan, Idilio Drago:
  Robust URL Classification With Generative Adversarial Networks. 143-146
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  Gonzalo Marín, Pedro Casas, Germán Capdehourat:
  DeepSec meets RawPower - Deep Learning for Detection of Network Attacks Using Raw Representations. 147-150
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  Michal Piskozub, Riccardo Spolaor, Ivan Martinovic:
  MalAlert: Detecting Malware in Large-Scale Network Traffic Using Statistical Features. 151-154
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  Sarah Wassermann, Nikolas Wehner, Pedro Casas:
  Machine Learning Models for YouTube QoE and User Engagement Prediction in Smartphones. 155-158
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  Gaetano Manzo, Juan Sebastian Otálora Montenegro, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianluca Rizzo:
  A Deep Learning Strategy for Vehicular Floating Content Management. 159-162
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  Rui Li, Chaoyun Zhang, Paul Patras, Razvan Stanica, Fabrice Valois:
  Learning Driven Mobility Control of Airborne Base Stations in Emergency Networks. 163-166
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  Johan Garcia, Topi Korhonen:
  On Runtime and Classification Performance of the Discretize-Optimize (DISCO) Classification Approach. 167-170
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  Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, Sumit Jagdish Darak:
  Distributed Learning in Ad-Hoc Networks with Unknown Number of Players. 171-174

Volume 46, Number 4, March 2019

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  Ranjan Pal, Aditya Ahuja, Sung-Han Lin, Abhishek Kumar, Leana Golubchik, Nachikethas A. Jagadeesan:
  On the Economic Sustainability of Cloud Sharing Systems Are Dynamic Single Resource Sharing Markets Stable? 2-10