Publications
Journal Publications
Asymptotic Behavior of Total Times For Jobs That Must Start Over If a Failure Occurs (with Soren Asmussen, Lester Lipsky, Robert Sheahan, and Tomaz Rolski, Math. Oper. Res., 2008.
A Dynamic Authentication Mechanism for Real-Time Network Security, (with Craig Bossie), Computing International Scientific Journal, 2007.
On Checkpointing and Heavy-Tails in Unreliable Computing Environments, (with Craig Bossie), Performance Evaluation Review, 2006.
Analytically Modeling Parallel Processing Systems with General Task Time Distributions and their Applications (with Robert W. Rowan), Computing International Scientific Journal, 2006.
On Unreliable Computing Systems when Heavy-Tails Appear as a Result of Recovery Procedures, (with Robert Sheahan and Lester Lipsky), Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 33(2), 2005.
Availability Versus Performance, (with Lester Lipsky), Computing International Scientific Journal, Vol. 2(1), August 2003.
Conference Publications
On Checkpointing and Heavy-Tails in Unreliable Computing Environments, (with Craig Bossie), Performance 2005, Juan-Les-Pins, France, 2005.
A Dynamic Authentication Mechanism for Real-Time Network Security, (with Craig Bossie), NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Sophia, Bulgaria,, September 2005.
The Effect of Different Failure Recovery Procedures on the Distribution of Task Completion Times, (with Robert Shea and Lester Lipsky), 10th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems, Denver, CO, March, 2005.
The Performance Impact of Security Attacks On Enterprise Computing Systems, (with Yiping Ding), Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘04, Las Vegas, NV, December, 2004.
Assessing the Performance of Unreliable Computing Systems with Non-Exponential Task Time Distributions, (with Robert W. Rowan), Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability Methodology and Practice, Santa Fe, NM, June 21-25, 2004.
A Performance Model for Unreliable SANs, (with Robert W. Rowan), 1st International Workshop Optical Networking Technologies for Global SAN Solutions, Dallas, TX, October, 2003.
A Performance Model for P2P Computing Systems (with Robert W. Rowan), 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Las Vegas, NV, August, 2003.
Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Parallel Systems: Design Paradigms for Extensible Solutions (with Colin Campbell), 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’03), Las Vegas, NV, June, 2003.
On the Performability of Computing Systems (with Yiping Ding), 28th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, Reno, NV, December, 2002.
An Analytic Approach to Assess the Performability of Parallel & Distributed Systems (with Colin Campbell and Lester Lipsky), 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (Special Session on Reliability and Fault Tolerance), Louisville, KY, September, 2002.
On Estimating the Probability Distributions of Performance Data with Applications to Satisfying Service Level Objectives, Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘01, Anaheim, CA,, December 2001.
Voice over IP (VoIP) for Networks: Performance Implications & Traffic Models, Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘00, Orlando, FL, December 2000.
Insights into WWW Performance using Busy-Period Analysis (with Yiping Ding and Jeffrey Dawson), Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘99, Reno, NV, December 1999.
On Detecting Power-Tail Behavior in Random Samples (with Yiping Ding), Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘99, Reno, NV, December 1999.
On the Busy-Period of WWW Servers with Heavy-Tailed Workloads, Second International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC ‘99) – Sponsored by INFORMS College on Information & Telecommunication Systems, Nashville, Tennessee, October 1999.
On Modeling Concurrent Heavy-Tailed Traffic Sources and its Impact upon QoS, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ‘99), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 1999.
Analytic Models of Performance in Telecommunication Systems Based upon ON-OFF Sources with Self-Similar Behavior (with Lester Lipsky and Hans-Peter Schwefel), 7th International Conference on Teletraffic Systems, Nashville, TN, March 1999.
On Modeling and Characterizing Self-Similar Data Traffic, (with Lester Lipsky and Yiping Ding), Computer Performance Measurement Group (CMG) ‘98, Anaheim, CA, December 1998.
On Modeling Concurrent Heavy-Tailed Traffic Sources and its Applications to Network Planning (with Lester Lipsky), 11th International Conference Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, Chicago, IL, November 1998.
A Heavy-Tailed ON/OFF Source Model and its Applications to Capacity Planning (with Lester Lipsky and Yiping Ding), 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Chicago, IL, September 1998.
Consequences of Ignoring Self-Similar Data Traffic (with Lester Lipsky and Mark Crovella), in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Chicago, IL, September 1997.
Comparison of Buffer Usage Utilizing Multiple Servers in Network Systems with Power-Tail Distributions (with John Hatem and Lester Lipsky), 9th Conference on Applied Probability (INFORMS ‘97), Boston, MA, June 1997.
Tractable Queueing Paradigms for Modeling Telecommunication Systems with Self-Similar Data Traffic (with Lester Lipsky), 9th Conference on Applied Probability (INFORMS ‘97), Boston, MA, June 1997.
Modeling Telecommunication Systems that have Power-Tail (Bursty, Chaotic, Self-Similar, etc.) Traffic (with Lester Lipsky, John Hatem, Michael Greiner, Manfred Jobmann), Computer Measurement Group (CMG) ‘96, San Diego, CA,, December 1996.
A Performance Model for Unreliable SANs (with Robert W. Rowan), 1st International Workshop Optical Networking Technologies for Global SAN Solutions, Dallas, TX,, October, 2003
Superimposing Renewal Processes upon Power-Tail Distributions: Its Effect on Long-range Dependence, (with Lester Lipsky), Technical Report BRC/CSE-TR-97-1, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1997.
Comparison of Buffer Usage Utilizing Multiple Servers in Network Systems with Power-Tail Distributions (with John Hatem and Lester Lipsky), Technical Report BRC/CSE-TR-97-8, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1997.