Monday, October 5, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n Note: R denotes regular paper, S denotes short paper.<\/em><\/p>\n 8:30-9:00 Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00-9:20 Welcome and opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:20-10:20 Keynote 1: \u00a0 The Cirrus Cloud Project: Opportunistic Mobile Cloud Computing\u00a0<\/strong>Mostafa Ammar<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10:20-10:50 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:50-12:00 Networking (R) \u00a0 TARS: A Traffic-Adaptive Receiver-Synchronized MAC Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks\u00a0<\/strong>Yu Han and Yunsi Fei<\/p>\n (S) \u00a0 \u00a0A Graph Theoretical Analysis of the Web Using DNS Traffic Traces\u00a0<\/strong>Sean Sanders and Jasleen Kaur<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 \u00a0evalBox: A Cross-Platform Evaluation Framework for Network Systems\u00a0<\/strong>Vineet Sinha and Mea Wang<\/p>\n (S) \u00a0 On the Fidelity of Single-Machine Network Emulation in Linux \u00a0<\/strong>Joseph D\u00a0 Beshay, Andrea Francini and Ravi Prakash<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00-13:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n 13:30-14:50 Memory I (R)\u00a0 Alleviating DRAM Refresh Overhead via Inter-rank Piggyback Caching\u00a0<\/strong>Yuhua Guo, Ping Huang, Benjamin Young, Tao Lu, Xubin He and Qing Gary Liu<\/p>\n (S) \u00a0\u00a0FAME: A Fast and Accurate Memory Emulator for New Memory System Architecture Exploration\u00a0<\/strong>Krishna T\u00a0 Malladi, Mu-Tien Chang, John Ping and Hongzhong Zheng<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 \u00a0Flash-Aware High-Performance and Endurable Cache\u00a0<\/strong>Qianbin Xia and Weijun Xiao<\/p>\n (R) \u00a0AYUSH: Extending Lifetime of SRAM-NVM Way-based Hybrid Caches Using Wear-leveling\u00a0<\/strong>Sparsh Mittal and Jeffrey Vetter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 14:50 -15:20 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n 15:20-16:25 Cloud I (R) \u00a0On Fair Attribution of Costs Under Peak-based Pricing to Cloud Tenants\u00a0<\/strong>Neda Nasiriani, Cheng Wang, George Kesidis, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Lydia Chen and Robert Birke<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Reducing Job Slowdown Variability for Data-Intensive Workloads\u00a0<\/strong>Bogdan Ghit and Dick Epema<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On Biasing towards Optimized Application Placement in the Cloud\u00a0<\/strong>Asser Tantawi<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 16:25-16:45 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 16:45-17:40 Architectures (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Energy Efficiency of Hierarchical Server Load Distribution Strategies\u00a0<\/strong>J\u00f3akim von Kistowski, John Beckett, Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hansfried Block, Jeremy Arnold and Samuel Kounev<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0An Approach to Discrete Parameter Design Space Exploration of Multi-core Systems using a Novel Simulation Based Interpolation Technique\u00a0<\/strong>Neha Karanjkar and Madhav Desai<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 To Co-Run, or Not To Co-Run: A Performance Study on Integrated Architectures\u00a0<\/strong>Feng Zhang, Jidong Zhai, Wenguang Chen, Bingsheng He and Shuhao Zhang<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuesday, October 6, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8:30-9:00 Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00-10:00 Keynote 2: Modeling and Optimization of Big Data Systems <\/strong>Li Zhang<\/p>\n 10:00-10:30 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:30-12:00 Memory II (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Characterization of Dynamic Memory Allocations in Real-World Applications: An Experimental Study\u00a0<\/strong>Diego Damasceno Costa and Rivalino Matias Jr<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I\/O-Cache: A Non-Volatile Memory Based Buffer Cache Policy to Improve Storage Performance\u00a0<\/strong>Ziqi Fan, Alireza Haghdoost, David Du and Doug Voigt<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0 \u00a0Characterizing the Overhead of Software-Managed Hybrid Main Memory\u00a0<\/strong>Santiago Bock, Bruce Childers, Rami Melhem and Daniel Mosse<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 InterSense: Interconnect Performance Emulator for Future Scale-out Distributed Memory Applications\u00a0<\/strong>Qi Wang, Lucy Cherkasova, Jun Li and Haris Volos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00-13:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n 13:30-14:50 Modeling and Workloads (R) \u00a0\u00a0Perfect sampling in stochastic Petri nets using decision diagrams\u00a0<\/strong>Simonetta Balsamo, Andrea Marin and Ivan Stojic<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 \u00a0A Case for Rigorous Workload Classification\u00a0<\/strong>Avani Wildani and Ian Adams<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0 \u00a0A Product-form Model for the Analysis of Systems with Aging Objects\u00a0<\/strong>Filippo Cavallin, Andrea Marin and Sabina Rossi<\/p>\n (S) \u00a0\u00a0Accelerating Graphics in the Simics Full-system Simulator \u00a0<\/strong>Eric Nilsson, Daniel Aarno, Erik Carstensen and H\u00e5kan Grahn<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 14:50 -15:20 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n 15:20-16:25 Cloud II (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Self-boosted Co-scheduling for SMP Virtual Machines\u00a0<\/strong>Kun Wang,\u00a0Yudi Wei, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Jia Rao<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0 \u00a0CloudScope: Diagnosing and Managing Performance Interference in Multi-tenant Clouds\u00a0<\/strong>Xi Chen, Lukas Rupprecht, Rasha Osman, Peter Pietzuch, Felipe Franciosi, and William Knottenbelt<\/p>\n (S)\u00a0 \u00a0MRemu: An Emulation-based Framework for Datacenter Network Experimentation using Realistic MapReduce Traffic\u00a0<\/strong>Marcelo Neves, Cesar De Rose and Kostas Katrinis<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 16:25-16:45 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n 16:45-17:35 Mobile and Social (R)\u00a0 \u00a0On Modeling and Impact of Geographic Restrictions for Human Mobility in Opportunistic Networks\u00a0<\/strong>Matthias Schwamborn and Nils Aschenbruck<\/p>\n (R)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0CPSys: A system for mobile video prefetching\u00a0<\/strong>Ali Gouta, David Hausheer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Christian Koch, Yannick Lelouedec and Julius R\u00fcckert<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday, October 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:00-10:30 Storage Systems (R)\u00a0 Preserving Row Buffer Locality for PCM Wear-Leveling Under Massive Parallelism\u00a0<\/strong>Xinning Wang, Bin Wang, Zhuo Liu and Weikuan Yu<\/p>\n (R) \u00a0Soothsayer: Predicting Capacity Usage in Backup Storage 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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Sparsh Mittal,\u00a0Oak Ridge National Lab, USA<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Niklas Carlsson,Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Marcelo Veiga Neves,Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Asser Tantawi,\u00a0IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Krishna Malladi,\u00a0Memory Solutions Lab, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., USA
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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Marco A. S. Netto,\u00a0\u00a0IBM Research, Brazil
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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Anshul Gandhi,\u00a0\u00a0Stony Brook University, USA
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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Andrea Marin,\u00a0Universita Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia, Italy
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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Avani Wildani,\u00a0\u00a0The Emory University, USA
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\n<\/strong>Session Chair: Bogdan Ghit,\u00a0\u00a0Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
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