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Journals
- L. Cherkasova, K. Ozonat, N. Mi, J. Symons, and E. Smirni:
Automated Anomaly Detection and Performance Modeling of Enterprise
Applications. Will appear in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems,
(TOCS), 2010.
- D. Gmach, J. Rolia, L. Cherkasova, and A. Kemper: Resource
Pool Management: Reactive versus Proactive or Let's be Friends.
Will apppear in J. Computer Networks (ComNet), Special Issue
on Virtualized Data Centers, Elsevier, dec. 2009. You can ask me for a copy of this paper, but copyright forbids posting this paper.
- 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.
You can ask me for a copy of this paper, but copyright forbids posting this paper.
- 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
- 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.
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