papers-ext-refereed

Journals

X. Yu, K. Ergun, L. Cherkasova, T. Rosing: Optimizing Sensor Deployment and Maintenance Cost for Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (TCAD), 2020.

F. Yan, L. Cherkasova, Z. Zhang, E.Smirni: DyScale: a MapReduce Job Scheduler for Heterogeneous Multicore Processors. IEEE Journal Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2017.

Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Exploiting Cloud Heterogeneity to Optimize Performance and Cost of MapReduce Processing. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, (PER), Special Issue on Performance and Resource Management in Big Data Applications, March, 2015.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Profiling and Evaluating Hardware Choices for MapReduce Environments: an Application-Aware Approach. Performance Evaluation (PEVA), Volume 79, September 2014, Special Issue: Performance 2014.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Parameterizable Benchmarking Framework for Designing a MapReduce Performance Model. Special Issue of Journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience" (CCPE), published by Wiley, 2014.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, A. Verma, B. T. Loo: Performance Modeling and Optimization of Deadline-Driven Pig Programs. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, (TAAS), 8(3), September, 2013.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Orchestrating an Ensemble of MapReduce Jobs for Minimizing Their Makespan. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, (TDSC), Special Issue on Cloud Computing Assessment, 10(5), Sept/Oct, 2013.
G. Casale, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Dealing with Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Models. Journal of Internet Services and Application (JISA), Special Issue: Middleware, vol 1(2), 2010, p.117-134.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Parameterizable Benchmarking Framework for Designing a MapReduce Performance Model. Special Issue of Journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience" (CCPE), published by Wiley, 2014.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, A. Verma, B. T. Loo: Performance Modeling and Optimization of Deadline-Driven Pig Programs. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, (TAAS), 8(3), September, 2013.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Orchestrating an Ensemble of MapReduce Jobs for Minimizing Their Makespan. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, (TDSC), Special Issue on Cloud Computing Assessment, 10(5), Sept/Oct, 2013.
G. Casale, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Dealing with Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Models and Their Parameterization. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (TSE), Sept/Oct., 2012.
N. Mi, G. Casale, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Sizing Multi-Tier Systems with Temporal Dependence: Benchmarks and Analytic Models. Journal of Internet Services and Application (JISA), Special Issue: Middleware, vol 1(2), 2010, p.117-134.
L. Cherkasova, K. Ozonat, N. Mi, J. Symons, and E. Smirni: Automated Anomaly Detection and Performance Modeling of Enterprise Applications. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, (TOCS), Volume 27 , Issue 3, November, 2009.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and A. Kemper: Resource Pool Management: Reactive versus Proactive or Let's be Friends. J. Computer Networks (ComNet), Special Issue on Virtualized Data Centers, Elsevier, Dec. 2009.
X. Zhu, D. Young, B. Watson, Z. Wang, J. Rolia, S. Singhal, B. McKee, C. Hyser, D.Gmach, R. Gardner, T. Christian, L. Cherkasova: 1000 Islands: An Integrated Approach to Resource Management for Virtualized Data Centers. J. Cluster Computing, (CC), Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Volume 12, Number 1, March, 2009.
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, N. Mi and E. Smirni: A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Capacity Planning of Multi-Tier Applications. J. Cluster Computing, (CC), Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Volume 11, Number 3, September, 2008.
L. Cherkasova, D. Gupta, A. Vahdat: Comparison of the Three CPU Schedulers in Xen. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, (PER), Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 42-51, September 2007.
W. Tang, Y. Fu, L. Cherkasova, A. Vahdat: Modeling and Generating Realistic Streaming Media Server Workloads. J. Computer Networks (ComNet), Elsevier, Vol. 51, Issue 1, 2007.
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang, A. Vahdat. A Unified Benchmarking and Model-Based Framework for Building QoS-aware Streaming Media Services. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Springer-Verlag, July, 2006.
J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, M. Arlitt, Vijay Machiraju: Supporting Application Quality of Service in Shared Resource Pools. J. Communication of ACM (CACM), vol. 49, No. 3, March, 2006.
L. Cherkasova, M. Gupta: Analysis of Enterprise Media Server Workloads: Access Patterns, Locality, Content Evolution, and Rates of Change. ACM/IEEE J. Transactions on Networking, (TON), vol. 12, Oct, p. 781-794, 2004.
L. Cherkasova, Y. Fu, W. Tang, A. Vahdat: Measuring and Characterizing End-to-End Internet Service Performance. Journal ACM/IEEE Transactions on Internet Technology, (TOIT), November, 2003.
L. Cherkasova, P. Phaal: Session Based Admission Control: a Mechanism for Peak Load Management of Commercial Web Sites. IEEE J. Transactions on Computers, (TOC), Vol. 51, No. 6, June 2002.
M. Arlitt, L. Cherkasova, J. Dilley, R. Friedrich and T. Jin: Evaluating Content Management Techniques for Web Proxy Caches. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, (PER), Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 3-11, March 2000.
G. Ciardo, L. Cherkasova, V. Kotov, T. Rokicki: Modeling a fibre channel switch with stochastic Petri nets. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, (PER), Vol. 23 Issue 1, May 1995.

Conferences

X. Yu, X. Song, L. Cherkasova, T. Simunic Rosing: Automating Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Design of LoRa-based IoT Networks. In Proc. of 17th Intl. Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM’2021), Izmir, Turkey, 25-29 October, 2021. Best Paper Award.
P. K. Gadepalli, S. McBride, G. Peach, L. Cherkasova, G. Parmer: Sledge: a Serverless-first, Light-weight Wasm Runtime for the Edge. In Proc. of ACM/IFIP/USENIX the 21st Intl. Middleware Conference (Middleware'2020), Delft, Netherlands, December 7–11, 2020.
X. Yu, X. Song, L. Cherkasova, T. Simunic Rosing: Reliability-Driven Deployment in Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks. In Proc. of 16th Intl. Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM’2020), Izmir, Turkey, 2-6 November, 2020.
G. Peach, R. Pan, Z. Wu, G. Parmer, C. Haster, L. Cherkasova: eWASM: Practical Software Fault Isolation for Reliable Embedded Devices. In Proc. of Intl. Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT'2020), as a part of Embedded Systems Week, September 20-25, 2020.
X. Yu, K. Ergun, L. Cherkasova, T. Simunic Rosing: Optimizing Sensor Deployment and Maintenance Costs for Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring. In Proc. of Intl. Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS'2020), as a part of Embedded Systems Week, September 20-25, 2020.
K. Ergun, X. Yu, N. Nagesh, L. Cherkasova, P. Mercati, R. Ayoub, T. Rosing: RelIoT: Reliability Simulator for IoT Networks. In Proc. of Intl. Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT’2020), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 12-14, 2020.
J. V. Jeyakumar, L. Cherkasova, S. Lajevardi, M. Allan, Y. Zhao, J. Fry, M. Srivastava: Combining Individual and Joint Networking Behavior for Intelligent IoT Analytics. In Proc. of Intl. Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT’2020), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 12-14, 2020.
K. Ergun, X. Yu, N. Nagesh, L. Cherkasova, P. Mercati, R. Ayoub, T. Rosing: Simulating Reliability of IoT Networks with RelIoT. In Proc. of the 50th IEEE/IFIP Intl. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'2020), Industrial Track, Valencia, Spain, June 29-July 2, 2020.
P. K. Gadepalli, G. Peach, L. Cherkasova, R. Aitken, G. Parmer: Challenges and Opportunities for Efficient Serverless Computing at the Edge. Proc. of the 38th Intl. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2019), Lyon, France, October 1-4, 2019.
P. Amin, L. Cherkasova, R. Aitken, V. Kache: Automating Energy Demand Modeling and Forecasting Using Smart Meter Data. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT'2019), Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.
P. Amin, L. Cherkasova, R. Aitken, V. Kache: Analysis Demand Forecasting of Residential Energy Consumption at Multiple Time Scales. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'2019), Washington DC, USA, April 8-12, 2019.
S. Wen, L. Cherkasova, F. X. Lin, X. Liu: ProfDP: A Lightweight Profiler to Guide Data Placement in Heterogeneous Memory Systems. The 32^nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2018), June 12-15, Beijing, China.

L. Yang, L. Cherkasova, R. Badgujar, J. Blancaflor, R. Konde, J. Mills, E. Smirni: Evaluating Scalability and Performance of a Security Management Solution in Large Virtualized Environments. Proc. of the 10th ACM/SPEC Intl. Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'18), Mumbai, India, April 7-11, 2016.

M. Kim, J. Li, H. Volos, M. Marwah, A. Ulanov, K. Keeton, J. Tucek, L. Cherkasova, L.Xu, P. Fernando: Sparkle: Optimizing Spark for Large Memory Machines and Analytics. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2017 (SoCC 2017), Santa Clara, 2017, Sept. 25-27, 2017.

M. Kim, J. Li, H. Volos, M. Marwah, A. Ulanov, K. Keeton, J. Tucek, L. Cherkasova, L.Xu, P. Fernando: Sparkle: Optimizing Spark for Large Memory Machines and Analytics. CoRR abs/1708.05746, 2017.

S. Medya, L. Cherkasova, A. Singh. Predictive Modeling and Scalability Analysis for Large Graph Analytics. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'2017), Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-12, 2017.

D. Gupta, L. Cherkasova, R. Gardner, and A. Vahdat: Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen. Test of Time Award, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 17th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2016), Trento, Italy, Dec. 12 - 16, 2016.

A. Eisenman, L. Cherkasova, G. Magalhaes, Q. Cai, S. Katti. Parallel Graph Processing on Modern Multi-Core Servers: New Findings and Remaining Challenges. Proc. of the 24th IEEE Intl. International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2016), London, UK, September 19-21, 2016. Best Paper Runner-Up Award.
A. Eisenman, L. Cherkasova, G. Magalhaes, Q. Cai, P. Faraboschi, S. Katti. Parallel Graph Processing: Prejudice and State of the Art. Proc. of the 7th ACM/SPEC Intl. Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'16), Delft, the Netherlands, March 12-16, 2016.
S. Medya, L. Cherkasova, G. Magalhaes, K. Ozonat, C. Padmanabha, J. Sarma, I. Sheikh. Towards Performance and Scalability Analysis of Distibuted Memory Programs on Large-Scale Clusters. Proc. of the 7th ACM/SPEC Intl. Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'16), Delft, the Netherlands, March 12-16, 2016.
Q. Wang, L. Cherkasova, J. Li, H. Volos: Interconnect Emulator for Aiding Performance Analysis of Distributed Memory Applications. Proc. of the 7th ACM/SPEC Intl. Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'16), Delft, the Netherlands, March 12-16, 2016.
H. Volos, G. Magalhaes, L. Cherkasova, J. Li: Quartz: A Lightweight Performance Emulator for Persistent Memory Software. Proc. 16th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, (Middleware'2015), Vancouver, Canada, December 8-11, 2015.
Q. Wang, L. Cherkasova, J. Li, H. Volos: InterSense: Interconnect Performance Emulator for Future Scale-out Distributed Memory Applications Proc. of the 23th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2015), Atlanta, USA, Oct 5-7, 2015.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Automating Platform Selection for MapReduce Processing in the Cloud. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 21-24, 2015.
L. Cherkasova and A. Zhang: Optimizing QoS, Performance, and Power Efficiency of Backup Services. Proc. of the 4th IFIP/IEEE Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2015), Madrid, Spain, April 14-15, 2015.
D. Sengupta, Q. Wang, H. Volos, L. Cherkasova, J. Li, G. Magalhaes, K. Schwan: A Framework for Emulating Non-Volatile Memory Systems with Different Performance Characteristics. Proc. of the 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'15), Austin, TX, USA, Jan. 31- Feb. 4, 2015.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Profiling and Evaluating Hardware Choices for MapReduce Environments: an Application-Aware Approach. Proc. of the 32nd Intl. Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluation. (IFIP WG 7.3 Performance'2014), Turin, Italy, October 7-9, 2014.
L. Cherkasova The Enterprise and Big Data Systems: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Keynote at the 11th ACM/USENIX Intl Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2014), June 18-20, 2014, Philadelphia, USA
F. Yan, L. Cherkasova, Z. Zhang, E.Smirni: Optimizing Power and Performance Trade-offs of MapReduce Job Processing with Heterogeneous Multi-Core Processors. Proc. of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'2014), June 27 - July 2, 2014, Alaska, USA.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Optimizing Cost and Performance Trade-Offs for MapReduce Job Processing in the Cloud. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2014), Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014.
F. Yan, L. Cherkasova, Z. Zhang, E.Smirni: Heterogeneous Cores For MapReduce Processing: Opportunity or Challenge? In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2014), Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014.
L. Cherkasova: The Present and Future of Big Data Systems and Their Management. Keynote at the 4th International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP'2014), co-located with EuroSys 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 13, 2014.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Exploiting Cloud Heterogeneity for Optimized Cost/Performance MapReduce Processing. In Proc. of the Fourth Intl. Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP'2014) co-located with EuroSys 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 13, 2014.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Performance Modeling of MapReduce Jobs in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments. Proc. of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'2013) Santa Clara, CA, USA , June 27-July 2, 2013.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: AutoTune: Optimizing Execution Concurrency and Resource Usage in MapReduce Workflows. Proc. of the 10th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2013), San Jose, CA, USA, June 26-28, 2013.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Getting More for Less in Optimized MapReduce Workflows. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013.
V. Garg, L. Cherkasova, S. Packirisami, J. Rolia: Workload Analysis and Demand Prediction of HP ePrint Service. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013.
V. Garg, L. Cherkasova, S. Packirisami, J. Rolia: ACE: Automated Capacity Evaluation of HP ePrint Service. Proc. of the Demo Track of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, B. T. Loo: Benchmarking Approach for Deriving a Performance Model of MapReduce Jobs. Proc. of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'13), April 21-24, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, A. Verma, B. T. Loo: Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs for Meeting Service Level Objectives. Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2012), Sept. 14-18, 2012, San Jose, CA, USA, Best Student Paper award.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Two Sides of a Coin: Optimizing the Schedule of MapReduce Jobs to Minimize Their Makespan and Improve Cluster Performance. Proc. of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2012), Washington DC, USA, August 7-9, 2012.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova: Selling T-shirts and Time Shares in the Cloud. Proc. of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid'2012), Ottawa, Canada, May 13-16, 2012.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, A. Verma, B. T. Loo: Optimizing Completion Time and Resource Provisioning of Pig Programs. Proc. of Cloud Computing Optimization Workshop (CCOPT'2012), collocated with CCGrid'2012, May 13-16, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell: Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Perfromance Puzzle. Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2012), Maui, Hawaii, USA, April, 16-20, 2012.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova: Comparing Efficiency and Costs of Cloud Computing Models. Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2012), Maui, Hawaii, USA, April, 16-20, 2012.
Z. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, A. Verma, B. T. Loo: Meeting Service Level Objectives of Pig Programs. Proc. of the 2nd Intl Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP'2012), in conjunction with EuroSys'2012, Bern, Switzerland, April 10, 2012.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals. Proc. of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2011), Lisboa, Portugal, December 12-16, 2011.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell: Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle. Poster at the 23d ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP'2011), Cascais, Portugal, Oct. 23-26, 2011. Presentation Poster pdf
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: Play It Again, SimMR! Proc. of the IEEE Cluster 2011 (Cluster'2011), Austin, Texas, USA, September 26-30, 2011.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: SLO-Driven Right-Sizing and Resource Provisioning of MapReduce Jobs. Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS'2011), held in conjunction with VLDB'2011, Seattle, Washington, Sept. 2-3, 2011.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova: Resource and Virtualization Costs up in the Cloud: Models and Design Choices. Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'20011), Hong Kong, China, June 27-30, 2011.
L. Cherkasova: Performance management of enterprise applications: are we there yet? Keynote at the 6th International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID'2011), June 14, 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.
A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell: ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments. Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2011), June 14-18, 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.
L. Cherkasova, R. Lau, H. Burose, S. V. Kalambur, B. Kappler, K. Veeranan: Run-time Performance Optimization and Job Management in a Data Protection Solution. Proc. of the 11th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2011), Dublin, Ireland, May 23-27, 2011.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova: Chargeback Model for Resource Pools in the Cloud. Proc. of the 11th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2011), Dublin, Ireland, May 23-27, 2011.
L. Cherkasova: Performance Modeling in MapReduce Environments: Challenges and Opportunities. Keynote at the 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'11), March 14-16, 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.
L. Cherkasova, A. Zhang, X. Li: DP+IP = Design of Efficient Backup Scheduling. Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM'2010), Niagara Falls, Canada, October 25-29, 2010.
A. Caniff, L. Lu, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, E. Smirni: Fastrack for Taming Burstiness and Saving Power in Multi-Tiered Systems. Proc. of the 22nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC'22), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept 7-9, 2010. Best Student Paper.
L. Lu, L. Cherkasova, V. de Nitto Person�, N. Mi and E. Smirni: AWAIT: Efficient Overload Management for Busy Multi-tier Web Services under Bursty Workloads. Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'2010), Vienna, Austria, July 5-9, 2010.
R. Kaushik, L. Cherkasova, R. Campbell, and K. Nahrstedt: Lightning: Self-Adaptive, Energy-Conserving, Multi-Zoned, Commodity Green Cloud Storage System. Proc. of the ACM High Performance Distributed Computing, (HPDC'2010), Chicago, Illinois, June 20-25, 2010. Best Short Student Paper.
A. Caniff, L. Lu, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, E. Smirni: Efficient Resource Allocation and Power Saving in Multi-Tiered Systems. Proc. of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2010), Posters Track, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-30, 2010.
L. Cherkasova: Disruptive Middleware: past, present and future. Keynote at Middleware'09 Doctoral Symposium, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, November 30, 2009.
L. Cherkasova, R. Lau, H. Burose, B. Kappler: Enhancing and Optimizing a Data Protection Solution. Proc. of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2009), London, UK, September 21-23, 2009. Nominee for Best Paper Award.
L. Cherkasova: Towards Automated Capacity Planning and Anomaly Detection for Enterprise Applications. Keynote at the 6th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST'2009), Budapest, Hungary, Septemebr 13-16, 2009.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova: Satisfying Service Level Objectives in a Self-Managing Resource Pool. Proc. of the Third IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'2009), San Francisco, California, September 14-18, 2009.
L. Cherkasova, K. Eshghi, C. B. Morrey, J. Tucek, A. Veitch: Applying Syntactic Similarity Algorithms for Enterprise Information Management. Proc. of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2009), Paris, France, June 28 - July 1, 2009.
N. Mi, G. Casale, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Injecting Realistic Burstiness to a Traditional Client-Server Benchmark. Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2009), Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009.
T. Wood, L. Cherkasova, K. Ozonat, P. Shenoy: Profiling and Modeling Resource Usage of Virtualized Applications. Proc. of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2008), Leuven, Belgium, December 1-5, 2008.
N. Mi, G. Casale, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models. Proc. of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2008), Leuven, Belgium, December 1-5, 2008. Best Paper Award.
L. Cherkasova, K. Ozonat, N. Mi, J. Symons, and E. Smirni: Anomaly? Application Change? or Workload Change? In Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 24-27, 2008.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, G. Belrose, T. Turicchi, and A. Kemper: An Integrated Approach to Resource Pool Management: Policies, Efficiency and Quality Metrics. Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 24-27, 2008.
G. Casale, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: How to Parameterize Models with Bursty Workloads. In Proc. of First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement \& Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics'2008), Annapolis, MD, June 6, 2008.
X. Zhu, D. Young, B. Watson, Z. Wang, J. Rolia, S. Singhal, B. McKee, C. Hyser, D. Gmach, R. Gardner, T. Christian, L. Cherkasova: 1000 Islands: Integrated Capacity and Workload Management for the Next Generation Data Center. Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2008), Chicago, IL, USA, June 2-6, 2008.
N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, K. Ozonat, J. Symons, and E. Smirni: Analysis of Application Performance and Its Change via Representative Application Signatures. Proc. of the 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2008), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, April, 7-11, 2008.
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, G. Mathews, W. Greene, and E. Smirni: R-Capriccio: A Capacity Planning and Anomaly Detection Tool for Enterprise Services with Live Workloads. Proc. of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2007), Newport Beach, CA, USA, November 26-30, 2007.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and A. Kemper: Workload Analysis and Demand Prediction of Enterprise Data Center Applications. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC'2007), Boston, MA, USA, September 27-29, 2007.
D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and A. Kemper: Capacity Management and Demand Prediction for Next Generation Data Centers. Proc. of the International IEEE Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007.
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications. Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'2007), Jacksonville, Florida, USA, June 11-15, 2007.
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, G. Mathews, W. Greene, and E. Smirni: A Capacity Planning Framework for Multi-tier Enterprise Services with Real Workloads. Proc. of the Tenth IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'2007), Munich, Germany, May 21-25, 2007.
J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and R. Friedrich: Performance Engineering for EA Systems in Next Generation Data Centres. Proc. of the Sixth International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP'2007), Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 5-8, 2007.
D. Gupta, L. Cherkasova, R. Gardner, and A. Vahdat: Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen. In Proc. of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2006), Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 27 - Dec.1,2006.
L. Cherkasova, D. Gupta, E. Ryabinkin, R. Kurakin, V. Dobretsov, and A. Vahdat: Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance with Virtual Machines. In Proc. of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '06), Seattle, November 5, 2006.
L. Cherkasova and J. Rolia: R-Opus: A Composite Framework for Application Performability and QoS in Shared Resource Pools. In Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'2006), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June, 2006.
J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and C. McCarthy: Configuring Workload Manager Control Parameters for Resource Pools. Proc. of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2006), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006.
Q. Zhang, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: FlexSplit: A Workload-Aware, Adaptive Load Balancing Strategy for Media Clusters. Proc. of Multimedia Computing and Networking.(MMCN'2006), San-Jose, CA, Jan, 2006.
J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, M. Arlitt, and Vijay Machiraju: An Automated Approach for Supporting Application QoS in Shared Resource Pools. IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Systems & Services, (SelfMan'05), France, Nice, May 19, 2005, co-located with IM 2005.
L. Cherkasova: Optimizing the Reliable Distribution of Large Files within CDNs. Proc.of the Tenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'2005) Cartagena, Spain, June 27-30, 2005.
J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, M. Arlitt, and A. Andrzejak: A Capacity Management Service for Resource Pools. Proc. of the Fifth International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP'2005/), Spain, July 11-15, 2005.
L. Cherkasova, R. Gardner: Measuring CPU Overhead for I/O Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor. In Proc. of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USA, Anaheim, April 10-15, 2005.
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang, A. Vahdat. MediaGuard: a model-based framework for building streaming media services. Proc. of Multimedia Computing and Networking, (MMCN'2005), San-Jose, CA, Jan, 2005.
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang, S. Singhal: An SLA-Oriented Capacity Planning Tool for Streaming Media Services. Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, (DSN'2004), Florence, Italy, June 28-July1, 2004.
Presentation slides available here.
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang: Sizing the Streaming Media Cluster Solution for a Given Workload In Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2004), Chicago, USA, April 19-22, 2004.
Presentation slides available here
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang: Providing Resource Allocation and Performance Isolation in a Shared Streaming-Media Hosting Service. In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (SAC'2004), March, 2004.
L. Cherkasova, W. Tang. Capacity Planning Tool for Streaming Media Services In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia'2003, Berkeley, CA, November 2-8, 2003.
W. Tang, Y. Fu, L. Cherkasova, A. Vahdat. MediSyn: A Synthetic Streaming Media Service Workload Generator. In Proceedings of of the 13th Int'l. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV'2003), Monterey, CA, June, 2003.
L. Cherkasova, L. Staley. Building a Performance Model of Streaming Media Applications in a Utility Data Center Environment. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2003), Tokyo, Japan, May 12-15, 2003.
L. Cherkasova, J. Lee. FastReplica: Efficient Large File Distribution within Content Delivery Networks. Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'2003), Seattle, Washington, March 26-28, 2003. Presentation slides available here
L. Cherkasova, L. Staley. Measuring the Capacity of a Streaming Media Server in a Utility Data Center Environment. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia'2002, Juan Les Pines, France, Dec. 1-6, 2002.
L. Cherkasova, M. Gupta: Characterizing Locality, Evolution, and Life Span of Accesses in Enterprise Media Server Workload. In Proceedings of of the 12th Int'l. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV'2002), Miami Beach, FL, May, 2002.
Y. Fu, L. Cherkasova, W. Tang, A. Vahdat: EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring. In Proceedings of 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 13-15, Monterey, CA, 2002. Best Student Paper Award. Presentation slides available here
W. Tang, L. Cherkasova, L. Russell, M. Mutka: Modular TCP Handoff Design in STREAMS-Based TCP/IP Implementation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 2094, pp. 71-80, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Networking (ICN-2001), Colmar, France, July 9-13, 2001.
L. Cherkasova, M. Karlsson: Dynamics and Evolution of Web Sites: Analysis, Metrics and Design Issues. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'01), Hammamet, Tunisia, July 3-5, 2001, p.64-71.
L.Cherkasova , G.Ciardo: Role of Aging, Frequency, and Size in Web Cache Replacement Policies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 2110, pp.114-123, Proceedings on High Performance Computing and Networking, (HPCN'01), Amsterdam, June 25-27, 2001.
L. Cherkasova, M. Karlsson: Scalable Web Server Cluster Design with WARD. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advanced issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS'01), San Jose, June 20-21, 2001, pp.212-221.
W. Tang, L. Cherkasova, L. Russell, M.W. Mutka: Customized Library of Modules for STREAMS-based TCP/IP Implementation to Support Content-Aware Request Processing for Web Applications In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advanced issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS'01), San Jose, June 20-21, 2001, p.202-211.
L. Cherkasova, M. DeSouza, S. Ponnekanti. Performance Analysis of ``Content-Aware'' Load Balancing Strategy FLEX: Two Case Studies. In Proceedings of Thirty-Fourth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), Software Technology Track, January 3-6, 2001.
L. Cherkasova, Shankar Ponnekanti: Optimizing a ``Content-Aware'' Load Balancing Strategy for Shared Web Hosting Service. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2000), 29 August - 1 September 2000, San Francisco, CA, USA.
L. Cherkasova, P. Phaal: Predictive Admission Control Strategy for Overloaded Commercial Web Server. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'2000), 29 August - 1 September 2000, San Francisco, CA, USA.
L. Cherkasova, Mohan DeSouza, Shankar Ponnekanti: Improving Performance of Shared Web Hosting Service on a Web Server Cluster. In Poster Proceedings, WWW9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 16-19, 2000, p.4-5.
L. Cherkasova, M.DeSouza, J.James: Shared Web Hosting Analysis Tool for Service Providers. In Poster Proceedings, WWW9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 16-19, 2000, p.6-7.
L. Cherkasova, M.DeSouza, J.James: Analysis Tool for Web Hosting Service Providers. In Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'2000), Las Vegas, June 26-29, 2000, p.47-54.
R. Carter, L. Cherkasova: Detecting Timed-Out Client Requests for Avoiding Livelock and Improving Web Server Performance". In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'00), Antibes, France, July 3-7, 2000, p.2-7.
L. Cherkasova: FLEX: Load Balancing and Management Strategy for Scalable Web Hosting Service. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'00), Antibes, France, July 3-7, 2000, p.8-13.
L. Cherkasova, M. DeSouza: WHAT: Web Hosting Analysis Tool. postscript or pdf
In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. Atlanta, Oct,1999.
L. Cherkasova, P. Phaal: Session Based Admission Control: a Mechanism for Improving Performance of Commercial Web Sites. postscript or pdf In Proceedings of Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service, (IWQoS'99), IEEE/IFIP event, London, May 31-June 4, 1999.
L. Cherkasova, P. Phaal: Session Based Admission Control: a Mechanism for Web QoS. postscript or pdf
In Poster Proceedings of WWW8 - Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May, 1999.
M. Arlitt, L. Cherkasova, J. Dilley, R. Friedrich, T. Jin: Evaluating Content Management Techniques for Web Proxy Caches. HP Laboratories Report No. HPL-98-173, 1998.
Also, in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Internet Server Performance, WISP'99, May, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.
L. Cherkasova: Scheduling Strategy to Improve Response Time for Web Applications. postscript or pdf
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 1401, pp. 305-314. Proceedings on High Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN'98, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21-23, 1998.
L. Cherkasova, V. Kotov, T. Rokicki: Fibre Channel Fabrics: Evaluation and Design. In Proceedings of 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'96. Best Paper Award in the Software Technology Track.
L. Cherkasova, A. Davis, R. Hodgson, V. Kotov, I. Robinson, T. Rokicki: Components of Congestion Control. In Proceedings of 8th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, SPAA'96, pp. 208-210, Padua, Italy, June 24-26, 1996.
G. Ciardo, L. Cherkasova, V. Kotov, T. Rokicki: Modeling A Scalable High-Speed Interconnect with Stochastic Petri Nets. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models - PNPM '95.
G. Ciardo, L. Cherkasova, V. Kotov, T. Rokicki: Modeling A Fibre Channel Switch with Stochastic Petri Nets. In Proceedings 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE'95,Ottawa, Canada, May, 1995, pp. 319-320.
L. Cherkasova, A. Davis, V. Kotov, I. Robinson, T. Rokicki: How Much Adaptivity is Required for Bursty Traffic? In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, (ICPDC'94), Las-Vegas, October, 1994, pp 208-213.