Advance Program
                 International Workshop on Modeling,
               Analysis and Simulation of  Computer and
                Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96)

      Co-sponsored by the IEEE (Computer Society, TCCA,  TCSIM)
      In Cooperation with the ACM (SIGSIM, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS),
                           IFIP WG 7.3, and
                                 SCS

                       February 1 -- 3,  1996 
            Hyatt Sainte Claire, San Jose, California, USA



                      Thursday 1 February 1996
                      =========================

Continental Breakfast (7:30 -8:00) 

MASCOTS'96 Welcome Address from General and Program Chairs
Dharma Agrawal (NC State) and Xiaodong Zhang (UTSA)
Invited Session 
Chair: Xiaodong Zhang 
(8:00AM - 10:00AM)

Building Parallel Simulations from Serial Simulators
P. Heidelberger IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; and
D. Nicol, College of William and Mary

I/O, Performance Analysis, and Performance Data Immersion
D. A. Reed, University of Illinois

Coffee Break (10:00AM - 10:30AM)  

Session 1a: Networks I  
Chair: Philip Heidelberger, IBM T.J. Watson Researcg Center  
(10:30AM - 12:00PM)

Performance Analysis and Simulation, Validation Tests: A Comparative
Case Study About FDDI for Network Management
S. Meunier and O. Sercan, Universite Paul Sabatier, France

Tuning the Performance of Fast Resource Management
for Bursty Traffic in ATM-based Networks
H. Augsten, M. Mateescu and A. Wolisz, GMD, Germany

Zone-Bit-Recording-Enhanced Video Data Layout Strategies
S. Chen and M. Thapar, HP Research Labs

Session 1b: Instrumentation and Trace 
Chair: Evangelos P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece 
(10:30AM - 12:00AM)

The Inaccuracy of Trace-Driven Simulation Using Incomplete
Multiprogramming Trace Data
J. K. Flanagan, Brigham Young University

Bridge: A Retargetable Extensive Profiling Tool
J. Chen, M. Rabb and V. Taylor, Northwestern University

Annai/PMA Instrumentation Intrusion Presentation
A. Endo and B. J. N. Wylie, NEC European Supercomputer Systems, Switzerland
 
Lunch on Own (12:00PM - 1:30PM) 

Session 2a: Distributed Systems I  
Chair: Dan Reed, University of Illinois  
(1:30PM - 3:00PM)

Simulation of Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations  
Z. Xu, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Performance Modeling of Heterogeneous Distributed Applications
Cosimo Anglano, Universita di Torino, Italy

Using Remote Memory to Avoid Disk Thrashing: A Simulation Study
E. P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

Session 2b: Performance Modeling I  
Chair: Peter Wilke, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany  
(1:30PM - 3:00PM)

A Multinomial Formulation for Monte Carlo Simulation Using Importance
Sampling
J. A. Freebersyser and J. K. Townsend, North Carolina State University

Two New Fair and Efficient Algorithms for Slot Reuse in DQDB Mans
M. A. Marsan and F. Saluta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Two New Algorithms to Compute Steady-state Bounds for Markov
Models with Slow Forward and Fast Backward Transitions
J. A. Carrasco, A. Calderon and J. Escriba,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Coffe Break (3:00PM - 3:30PM)  

Session 3a: Parallel Systems I  
Chair: Keith Townsend, North Carolina State University    
(3:30 - 5:00PM)

Performance Estimation in a Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
M. J. Serrano, IBM Santa Teresa Lab

A Simulation Platform for Multi-threaded Architectures
V. Vlassov, H. Ahmed, L-E Thorelli and Rassul Ayani, Royal Institute
of Technology, Sweden

Measurement and Modeling of EARTH_MANNA Multithreaded Architecture
S. S. Nemawarkar and G. R. Gao, McGill University, Canada

Session 3b: Network Simulation 
Chair: Patrick Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo  
(3:30PM - 5:00PM)

A Comparison of Methodologies for the Stationary Analysis of Data
Gathered in the Simulation of Telecommunication Networks
A. Francini and F. Neri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Network Simulator
W-S. E. Chen, C-H. Lin and Y-T. Chen, National Chung-Hsing University,
Taiwan

Object Oriented Simulation of Multimedia-On-Demand Services over ATM
Network
A. Srivastava, A. Singru, A. Kumar and K. A. Kamel, University of Lousville
 

Workshop Reception 
(6:00PM - 8:00PM) 


                      Friday 2 February 1996
                      =========================
Continental Breakfast (7:30AM - 8:00AM) 

Session 4a: Networks II  
Chair: Nita Sharma, Hitachi Data Systems 
(8:00AM - 9:30AM)

Analysis of Buffer Design for Adaptive Routing in Direct Networks
A. Lagman and W. A. Najjar, Colorado State University

On the Design of Efficient Multistage Interconnection Networks
Y. R. Potlapalli and D. P. Agrawal, North Carolina State University

Performance Analysis of WDM Networks with Wavelength Conversion,
J-C Chen and P. W. Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo

Session 4b: Workloads and Benchmarks  
Chair: Anup Kumar, University of Louisville    
(8:00AM - 9:30AM)

Transaction Processing Workloads - A Comparison to the SPEC
Benchmarks Using Memory Hierarch Performance Analysis
B. E. Nelson and G. D. Thompson, Brigham Young University

The Design and Simulation of the PACE Prototype Architecture
F. Z. Ieromnimon, T. J. Reynolds and M. E. Waite, University of Essex, UK
 
A Quantitative Method for Design of Benchmark Suites
J. J. Dujmovic, San Francisco State University

Coffe Break (9:30AM - 10:00AM) 

Session 5a: Parallel Simulation I  
Chair: Samir Das, University of Texas at San Antonio  
(10:00AM - 11:30AM)

A Model for Parallel Simulation of Mobile Telecommunication Systems
M. Liljenstam and R. Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 
Parallelizable Execution-Driven Simulation of Threaded Distributed
Memory Parallel Computations
D. N. Nicol and J. X. Liu, College of William and Mary

A Model for Parallel Simulation of Distributed Shared Memory
L. Barriga, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; M. Brorsson, Lund
University, Sweden; and R. Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
 
Session 5b: TOOL -- Performance Analysis 
Chair: Thomas Braunl, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
(10:00AM - 11:30AM)

The Annai/PMA Performace Monitor and Analyzer
A. Endo, B. Wylie, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, Switzerland

Vista: A Framework for Instrumentation System Design
for Multidisplinary Applications
Abdul Waheed, Diane Rover, Michigan State University 

Building Models for Performance Analysis
Doug Neuse, SES, Inc. 

Workshop Lunch and Invited Session 
Chair: Dharma Agrawal  
(12:00PM - 2:00PM) 

Fair Queueing Architectures for High Speed Networks
Albert Greenberg, AT&T Bell Labs

Session 6a: Distributed Systems II  
Chair: Mark Squillante, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center  
(2:30PM - 4:30PM)

Analyzing and Tuning the Distributed Coordination Function in the
IEEE802.11 DFWMAC Draft Standard
J. Weinmiller, H. Woesner, J-P Ebert and A. Wolisz, Technical University
Berlin, Germany

Issues of Reliable Network Memory Paging
E. P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

Performability Management in Distributed Database Systems:
An Adaptive Concurrency Control Protocol
A. T. Tai, University of Califirnia at Los Angeles; and
J. F. Meyer, University of Michigan

Performance Analysis and Optimization of Search and Selection
Algorithm for Highly Parallel Associative Memories
B. Parhami, University of California at Santa Barbara

Session 6b: TOOL --- Networks and Parallel Systems 
Chair: Guenter Mamier, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
(2:30PM - 4:30PM)

VISTA: A Configurable Visualization and Simulation Tool
for ATM Switches
N. Tummala, K. Robbins, University of Texas at San Antonio 

TimeNET - A Toolkit for Evaluationg Non-Markovian Stochsastic Petri Nets
R. German et. al., Technische University Berlin, Germany 

MVPE: Visual Design of Parallel Simulation Models
R. Meyer, R. Bagrodia, University of California at Los Angeles 

Simulation of Data-Parallel Programs in Parallaxis-III
T. Braunl, H. Keller, and J. Stippa, University of Stuttgart, Germany

                      Saturday 3 February 1996
                      =========================

Continental Breakfast (7:30AM - 8:00AM)  

Invited Session  
Chair: Santosh G. Abraham, HP Lab  
(8:00AM - 9:00AM)

Evaluation of Cache Consistency Algorithm Performance
Alan Smith and J. D. Gee, University of California at Berkeley

Coffee Break (9:00AM - 9:30AM) 

Session 7a: Parallel Systems II  
Chair: Alan Smith, University of California at Berkeley  
(9:30AM - 11:30AM)

A Performance Debuger for Eliminating Excess Synchronization in
Shared-Memory Parallel Programs
R. Rajamony and A. L. Cox, Rice University

Event-based Study of the Effect of Execution Environments on Parallel
Program Performance
S. R. Sarukkai and J. C. Yan, NASA Ames Research Center

Modeling and Analysis of Task Migration in Shared-Memory Computer Systems
R. D. Nelson, OTA Limited Partnership; and M. S. Squillante,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
 
Performance Evaluation of an Integrated Instrumentation System
A. Waheed and D. T. Rover, Michigan State University


Session 7b: Performance Modeling II 
Chair: Dipak Ghosal, U of California at Davis 
(9:30AM - 11:30AM)

Comparing the Performance Parameters of Two Network Structures for
Scalable Massively Parallel Processors
D-M. Kwai and B. Parhami, University of California at Santa Barbara

Well-defined Stochastic Petri Nets
G. Ciardo, College of William and Mary; and R. Zijal, Technical University
of Berlin, Germany

A New Methodology for Performance Evaluation
J. Martins and J.-P. Hubaux, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Response time analysis of two server fork-join systems
E. Varki and L. W. Dowdy, Vanderbilt University

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                  R E G I S T R A T I O N   F O R M


                 International Workshop on Modeling,
               Analysis and Simulation of  Computer and
                Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96)

      Co-sponsored by the IEEE (Computer Society, TCCA,  TCSIM)
      In Cooperation with the ACM (SIGSIM, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS)
                           IFIP WG 7.3, and
                                 SCS

                       February 1 -- 3,  1996 
                        San Jose, California 

The early registration fee for IEEE/ACM members is $275, $345 for non-members,  
and $175 for full-time students by January 10. Late and on-site registration 
for IEEE/ACM members is $330, $410 for non-members, and $210 for students.  
This includes the Proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press, 
continental breakfasts, the workshop reception, the workshop lunch,  
and coffee breaks. Additional copies of the Proceedings may be  
purchased at the conference. In order to publish a paper in the proceedings, 
one of the authors must regist for the workshop by November 20. 


                  Please send your registration to: 

                  Professor Anup Kumar
                  EMACS Dept
                  University of Louisville
                  Louisville, KY 40292
                  Tel: 502-852-0471
                  e-mail address:
                  a0kuma01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu



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GENERAL CHAIR

Dharma Agrawal
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC  27695-7911

PROGRAM CHAIR

Xiaodong Zhang
High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas 78249

TOOLS FAIR CHAIRs
 
Thomas Braunl and Gunter Mamier
IPVR
University of Stuttgart, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22
D-70565 Stuttgart, Germany

PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION CHAIR

Samir R. Das
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas 78249, U.S.A.

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR

Tse-Yu Yeh
Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119

TREASURER AND REGISTRATION CHAIR

Anup Kumar
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Santosh Abraham (HP Lab, USA)
Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA)
Thomas Braunl (U Stuttgart, Germany)
Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy)
Gianfranco Ciardo (College William and Mary, USA)
James M. Conrad (U Arkansas, USA)
Chita Das (Penn State, USA)
Sajal Das (U of North Texas, USA)
Samir R. Das (UTSA, USA)
Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)
Larry Dowdy (Vanderbilt U, USA)
Paul Fishwick (U Florida, USA)
Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, USA)
Erol Gelenbe (Duke U, USA)
Dipak Ghosal (UC Davis, USA)
Albert Greenberg (AT&T, USA)
Guenter Haring (U Vienna, Austria)
Philip Heidelberger (IBM, USA)
Guy Juanole (LAAS, France)
Bob Jump (Rice U, USA)
Jason Lin (National C.K. University, Taiwan)
Darrell Long (UCSC, USA)
Guenter Mamier (U Stuttgart, Germany)
M Ajmone Marsan (Poly Torino, Italy)
Richard Muntz (UCLA, USA)
David Nicol (College William and Mary, USA)
Ken Sevcik (U Toronto, Canada)
Nita Sharma (Hitachi Data Systems, USA)
Alan J. Smith (UC Berkeley, USA)
Keith Townsend, (NCSU, USA)
Satish Tripathi (U Maryland, USA)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA)
Peter Wilke (U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Yong Yan (HuaZhong U, P. R. China)
 
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

Dharma Agrawal (NC State, USA) 
Kallol Bagchi (Consultant) 
Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy) 
Doug DeGroot (Texas Ins., USA) 
Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)   
Herb Schwetman (Mesquite, USA) 
Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA) 
Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA)