The special issue of Performance Evaluation is available here.
Session 1: Parallel Servers
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:30
1. Delay Asymptotics and Bounds for Multi-Task Parallel Jobs.
Weina Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University), Haotian Jiang (Tsinghua University), Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University), R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
2. SRPT for Multiserver Systems.
Isaac Grosof (Carnegie Mellon University), Ziv Scully (Carnegie Mellon University), Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University).
3. Flexible Load Balancing with Multi-dimensional State-space Collapse: Throughput and Heavy-traffic Delay Optimality.
Xingyu Zhou (The Ohio State University), Jian Tan (The Ohio State University), Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University).
Session 2: Models and Analysis of Novel Technologies I
Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:30
1. Joint User Association, Content Caching, and Recommendations in Wireless Edge Networks.
Livia Elena Chatzieleftheriou (Athens University of Economics and Business), George Darzanos (Athens University of Economics and Business), Merkouris Karaliopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business), Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business).
2. Hidden semi-Markov models for electricity load disaggregation.
Yung Fei Wong (Monash University), Lachlan Andrew (Monash University), Y. Ahmet Şekercioğlu (Sorbonne Université).
3. Information Market for Web Browsing: Design, Usability and Incremental Adoption.
Arash Molavi Kakhki (ThousandEyes), Vijay Erramilli (Salesforce), Phillipa Gill (U. Mass Amherst), Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University), Konstantina Papagiannaki (Google), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Research).
Session 3: Limiting regimes
Wednesday, 16:00 - 17:30
1. Size Expansions of Mean Field Approximation: Transient and Steady-State Analysis.
Nicolas Gast (INRIA), Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste), Mirco Tribastone (IMT)
2. Degree-Greedy Algorithms on Large Random Graphs.
Paola Bermolen (Universidad de la República), Matthieu Jonckheere (University of Buenos Aires- Conicet), Federico Larroca (Universidad de la República), Manuel Saenz (University of Buenos Aires-Conicet).
3. A central limit theorem for a Markov-modulated infinite-server queue with batch Poisson arrivals and binomial catastrophes.
Moeko Yajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Tuan Phung-Duc (University of Tsukuba).
Session 4: Caching and storage
Thursday, 09:00 – 10:30
1. Weighted Fair Caching: Occupancy-Centric Allocation for Space-Shared Resources.
Lianjie Shi (National University of Singapore), Xin Wang (National University of Singapore), Richard T. B. Ma (National University of Singapore), Y. C. Tay (National University of Singapore).
2. Worst-case Bounds and Optimized Cache on $M^{th}$ Request Cache Insertion Policies under Elastic Conditions.
Niklas Carlsson (Linkoping University), Derek Eager (University of Saskatchewan).
3. WOJ: Enabling Write-Once Full-data Journaling in SSDs by Using Weak-Hashing-based Deduplication.
Fan Ni (University of Texas at Arlington), Xingbo Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Weijun Li (Shenzhen Dapu Microelectronics Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, China), Lei Wang (Beihang University), Song Jiang (University of Texas at Arlington).
Session 5: Network Economics
Thursday, 11:00 – 12:30
1. Efficiency of High Playing Rates in Best Response Dynamics.
Stephane Durand (INRIA), Federica Garin (INRIA), Bruno Gaujal (INRIA).
2. Auction mechanisms for Licensed Shared Access: reserve prices and revenue-fairness tradeoffs.
Ayman Chouayakh (Orange), Aurélien Bechler (Orange), Isabel Amigo (IMT Atlantique), Loutfi Nuaymi (IMT Atlantique), Patrick Maillé (IMT Atlantique).
3. Towards an Efficient Market Mediator for Divisible Resources.
Mao Zou (University of Science and Technology of China), Richard T.B. Ma (National University of Singapore), Yinlong Xu (University of Science and Technology of China).
Session 6: Scheduling and resource sharing
Friday, 10:30 – 12:00
1. Temporal starvation in multi-channel CSMA networks: an analytical framework.
Alessandro Zocca (California Institute of Technology).
2. The Mean-field Behavior of Processor Sharing Systems with General Job Lengths Under the SQ($d$) Policy.
Thirupathaiah Vasantam (University of Waterloo), Arpan Mukhopadhyay (EPFL), Ravi R. Mazumdar (University of Waterloo).
3. Minimal-variance distributed deadline scheduling in a stationary environment.
Yorie Nakahira (California Institute of Technology), Andres Ferragut (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology).
Session 7: Models and Analysis of Novel Technologies II
Friday, 13:30 – 15:00
1. Achieving fairness for EV charging in overload: a fluid approach.
Martin Zeballos (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Andres Ferragut (Universidad ORT Uruguay), Fernando Paganini (Universidad ORT Uruguay).
2. Fairness in Online Social Network Timelines: Measurements, Models and Mechanism Design.
Eduardo Hargreaves (UFRJ), Claudio Agosti (University of Amsterdam), Daniel Sadoc Menasché (UFRJ), Giovanni Neglia (Inria), Alexandre Reiffers-Masson (Indian Institute of Science), Eitan Altman (Inria).
3. Hierarchical Beamforming: Resource Allocation, Fairness and Flow Level Performance.
Julien Floquet (Orange Labs), Richard Combes (Centrale-Supelec), Zwi Altman (Orange Labs).
Session 8: Redundancy Models
Friday, 15:30 – 17:00
1. Delta probing policies for redundancy.
Youri Raaijmakers (Eindhoven University of Technology), Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology), Onno Boxma (Eindhoven University of Technology).
2. Analysis of Redundancy(d) with Identical Replicas.
Tim Hellemans (University of Antwerp), Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp).
3. On a unifying product form framework for redundancy models.
Urtzi Ayesta (CNRS & Ikerbasque-EHU), Tejas Bodas (CNRS, LAAS), Ina Maria Verloop (CNRS, IRIT).
The following paper received the best student paper award in IFIP WG PERFORMANCE 2018. Congratulations!
SRPT for Multiserver Systems.
Isaac Grosof (Carnegie Mellon University), Ziv Scully (Carnegie Mellon University), Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University).
