Monday 8:30_10:00

Session 1: Keynote Address
Investing in the Simulation Profession
Dell Lunceford, Army Modeling & Simulation Office

Monday 10:30_12:00

Session 2: Interconnection Networks

An All-to-All Personalized Communication Algorithm for Faulty Hypercubes
Hiroshi Masuyama, Etsuko Masuyama, Tottori University, Japan

Message Latency of the Compressionless Adaptive Routing Algorithm
Ahmad Khonsari, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK

CLIC: A New Injection Limitation Mechanism to Improve the Performance of Fully Adaptive Routing in Wormhole Networks
M.S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
Z.H. Al-Awwami, M. Al-Mulhem, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

Job Preemption, Fast Subcube Compaction, or Waiting in Hypercube Systems? A Selection Methodology
Salma Ghoneim, Hossam Fahmy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Communication Latency in Wormhole-Routed Hypercubes
A. Shahrabi, M. Ould-Khaoua, L. Mackenzie, University of Glasgow, UK

Monday 1:30_3:00

Session 3: Distributed Systems I

On the Performance of Content Distribution Networks
Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, Dinesh Verma, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Simulating Parallel Program Performance with CLUE
Helmut Hlavacs, Dieter Kvasnicka, Christoph Ueberhuber, University of Vienna, Austria

On the Performance of Real-time Scheduling in a Parallel/Distributed Environment
Luís Friedrich, Rafael Cancian, Rômulo Oliveira, Thadeu Corso, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil

Distributed Algorithms for Spanning Tree Reconfigurations in Dynamic Networks
Kaliappa Ravindran, Makam Kumar, Gurdip Singh, City University of New York, USA

Monday 3:30_5:00

Session 4: Performance Modeling and Measurements

Software Based Tools for Accurately Testing the Performance of Data Networks
David Green, SRI, USA
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA

Performance Engineering of End-Systems for High Bandwidth Multimedia Communications
Kaliappa Ravindran, Kowshik Bhat, Dmitri Loguinov, Ting-Jian Gong, Kenneth Gould, City University of New York, USA

Experimental Evaluation by the Two-Dimensional Path-Based IP Performance Measurement
Takuo Nakashima, Kumamoto University, Japan

IP Packet Level vBNS Traffic Analysis and Modeling
Jian-Bo Gao, Vwani Roychowdhury, Ronn Ritke, Izhak Rubin, University of California - Los Angeles, USA

Continuous Network Monitoring for Fast Detection of Performance Problems
Hassan Hajji, Homayoun Behrouz, Saitama University, Japan