Journals

G. Casale, N. Mi, L. Cherkasova, and E. Smirni: Dealing with Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Models and Their Parameterization. Will appear in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (TSE), 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. You can ask me for a copy of this paper, but copyright form forbids web posting of this paper.

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. You can ask me for a copy of this paper, but the copyright form 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 form 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

A. Verma, L. Cherkasova, V. S. Kumar, R. Campbell: Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Perfromance Puzzle. Will appear in 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 the Efficiency and Costs of Resource Sharing Models in the Cloud. Will appear in Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'2012), Maui, Hawaii, USA, April, 16-20, 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. Invited Talk 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 PersonÒ, 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.