15th International GI/ITG Conference on
"Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems" and
"Dependability and Fault Tolerance"

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¤   MMB & DFT 2010   ¤

ITG

Organized by GI/ITG Technical Committees on "Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (MMB)" and
"Dependability and Fault-Tolerance (DFT)"

March 15 - 17, 2010    ¤    Essen (Germany)

Program
Program of MMB & DFT 2010 (pdf) is available

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Monday, March 15, 2010

from 11:30

Registration at Lecture Hall S07 S00 D07 (Building S07, located in the north-east area of Campus Essen)

13.00 - 13.15

Opening Session

Chair: Bruno Müller-Clostermann (conference chair) & Markus Siegle (head of MMB)
13.15 - 14.15

Invited Talk

Chair: Klaus Echtle (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)
14.15 - 14.45

Coffee Break

14.45 - 16.15 Session: Dependability and Fault Tolerance Chair: Max Walter (TU Munich)
  • Klaus Echtle and Thorsten Kimmeskamp:
    Verification of a Control System Built Using Remote Redundancy by Means of Timed Automata and State Space Exploration
  • Sven Söhnlein, Francesca Saglietti, Frank Bitzer, Matthias Meitner and Siegfried Baryschew:
    Software Reliability Assessment Based on the Evaluation of Operational Experience
  • Klaus Echtle and Mohamed Soubhi:
    Clock Synchronization Issues in Multi-Cluster Time-Triggered Networks
16.15 - 16.45

Coffee Break

16.45 - 18.15

Industry Session

Chair: Wolfram Lautenschläger (Alcatel-Lucent)
18.15 - 20.00

Welcome Reception at Lecture Hall S07 S00 D07

19.30 - 20.30

Meeting of the MMB Steering Committee

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

09.00 - 10.30

Session: Networks 1

Chair: Joachim Charzinski (Nokia Siemens Networks)
  • Christian Hübsch, Christoph Mayer and Oliver Waldhorst:
    User-perceived Performance of the NICE Application Layer Multicast Protocol in Large and Highly Dynamic Groups
  • David Hock, Michael Menth, Matthias Hartmann and Christian Schwartz:
    Effectiveness of Link Cost Optimization for IP Rerouting and IP Fast Reroute
  • Andrey Kolesnikov and Martin Kulas:
    Load Modeling and Generation for IP-based Networks: A Unified Approach and Tool Support
10.30 - 11.00

Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.00

Session: Tools (Short Presentations)

Chair: Andreas Pillekeit (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)
  • David Hock, Michael Menth, Matthias Hartmann, Christian Schwartz and David Stezenbach:
    ResiLyzer: A Tool for Resilience Analysis in Packet-Switched Communication Networks
  • Michael Striewe, Moritz Balz and Michael Goedicke:
    SyLaGen – An Extendable Tool Environment for Generating Load
  • Falko Bause, Philipp Gerloff and Jan Kriege:
    ProFiDo – A Toolkit for Fitting Input Models
  • Sebastian Vastag:
    ProC/B for Networks: Integrated INET Models
  • Sascha Geeren, Axel Langhoff, Bruno Mueller-Clostermann, Andreas Pillekeit and Falk Hoppe:
    DELTA: A Web-based Simulation Training Environment Using JavaDEMOS
12.00 - 13.00

Lunch Break

13.00 - 14.00

Invited Talk

Chair: Erwin Rathgeb (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)
14.00 - 14.30

Coffee Break and Tool Demonstrations

14.30 - 15.30

Session: New Topics

Chair: Jens Schmitt (Univ. Kaiserslautern)
  • Haidi Yue, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Henrik Bohnenkamp:
    Analyzing Energy Consumption in a Gossiping MAC Protocol
  • Axel Böttcher, Till Fischer, Aaron C. Coday and Helena Liebelt:
    Defining and Measuring Performance Characteristics of Current Video Games
15.30 - 15.45

Coffee Break and Tool Demonstrations

15.45 - 16.45

Session: Networks 2

Chair: Michael Menth (Univ. Würzburg)
  • Joachim Charzinski:
    Traffic Properties, Client Side Cachability and CDN Usage of Popular Web Sites
  • Vittoria de Nitto Personè, Andreas Pillekeit and Matteo Iacari:
    Investigation of the Multimedia Adaptive Threshold Strategy for Mobile Integrated Services Networks
18.00 - 22.00

Dinner and Performance at GOP Varieté-Theater

Rottstraße 30, 45127 Essen (within 15 minutes walking distance from lecture hall)
http://www.variete.de/Essen and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOP_Varieté_Essen

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

09.00 - 10.00

Session: Networks 3

Chair: Ralf Lehnert (TU Dresden)
  • Anne Remke, Boudewijn Haverkort and Geert Heijenk:
    Setting the Parameters Right for Two-Hop IEEE 802.11e Ad-Hoc Networks
  • Simon Frohn, Sascha Gübner and Christoph Lindemann:
    CrossTrace: Cross-Layer Measurement for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Testbeds
10.00 - 10.30

Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.00

Session: Queueing Theory

Chair: Gerhard Haßlinger (T-Systems)
  • Lothar Breuer:
    The Total Overflow During a Busy Cycle in a Markov-additive Finite Buffer System
  • Hind Castel and Nihal Pekergin:
    Accuracy of Strong and Weak Comparisons for Networks of Queues
  • Andreas Kiefer, Nicos Gollan and Jens Schmitt:
    Searching for Tight Performance Bounds in Feed-forward Networks
12.00 - 13.00

Lunch Break

13.00 - 15.00

Session: Markov Techniques and Phase Type Distributions

Chair: Peter Buchholz (TU Dortmund)
  • Lothar Breuer and Alfred Kume:
    EM for Discretely Observed Markovian Arrival Processes
  • Jan Kriege and Peter Buchholz:
    An Empirical Comparison of MAP Fitting Algorithms
  • Philipp Reinecke, Miklos Telek and Katinka Wolter:
    Reducing the Cost of Generating APH-distributed Random Numbers
  • Ralf Wimmer and Bernd Becker:
    Correctness Issues of Symbolic Bisimulation Computation for Markov Chains
15.00 - 15.15

Coffee Break

15.15 - 16.00

MMB 2010 Diploma Awards and PhD Award

Chair: Markus Siegle (Univ. of the Armed Forces)
  • Jennifer Mylosz: Nicht-ergodische Jackson-Netze mit unzuverlässigen Knoten
  • Oliver Hohlfeld: Statistical Error Model to Impair an H.264 Decoder
  • Tobias Hoßfeld: Performance Evaluation of Future Internet Applications and Emerging User Behavior
16.00 - 16.15

Best Paper Award and Closing Session

Chair: Bruno Müller-Clostermann (Univ. of Duisburg-Essen)
16.15

End of the Conference