Ludmila Cherkasova

Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Dealing with Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Models and Their Parameterization. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 38(5): 1040-1053 (2012)

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova: Selling T-shirts and Time Shares in the Cloud. CCGRID 2012: 539-546

Zhuoyao Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma, Boon Thau Loo: Optimizing Completion Time and Resource Provisioning of Pig Programs. CCGRID 2012: 811-816

Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell: Two Sides of a Coin: Optimizing the Schedule of MapReduce Jobs to Minimize Their Makespan and Improve Cluster Performance. MASCOTS 2012: 11-18

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova: Comparing efficiency and costs of cloud computing models. NOMS 2012: 647-650

Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar, Roy H. Campbell: Deadline-based workload management for MapReduce environments: Pieces of the performance puzzle. NOMS 2012: 900-905

Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell: Play It Again, SimMR! CLUSTER 2011: 253-261

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova: Resource and virtualization costs up in the cloud: Models and design choices. DSN 2011: 395-402

Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell: ARIA: automatic resource inference and allocation for mapreduce environments. ICAC 2011: 235-244

Ludmila Cherkasova, Roger Lau, Harald Burose, Subramaniam Venkata Kalambur, Bernhard Kappler, Kuttiraja Veeranan: Run-time performance optimization and job management in a data protection solution. Integrated Network Management 2011: 65-72

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova: Chargeback model for resource pools in the cloud. Integrated Network Management 2011: 622-625

Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell: Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals. Middleware 2011: 165-186

Ludmila Cherkasova: Performance modeling in mapreduce environments: challenges and opportunities. ICPE 2011: 5-6

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Sizing multi-tier systems with temporal dependence: benchmarks and analytic models. J. Internet Services and Applications 1(2): 117-134 (2010)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Alex Zhang, Xiaozhou Li: DP+IP = design of efficient backup scheduling. CNSM 2010: 118-125

Rini T. Kaushik, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell, Klara Nahrstedt: Lightning: self-adaptive, energy-conserving, multi-zoned, commodity green cloud storage system. HPDC 2010: 332-335

Lei Lu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vittoria De Nitto Persone, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni: AWAIT: Efficient Overload Management for Busy Multi-tier Web Services under Bursty Workloads. ICWE 2010: 81-97

Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Fastrack for taming burstiness and saving power in multi-tiered systems. International Teletraffic Congress 2010: 1-8

Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Efficient resource allocation and power saving in multi-tiered systems. WWW 2010: 1069-1070

Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson, Zhikui Wang, Jerry Rolia, Sharad Singhal, Bret McKee, Chris Hyser, Daniel Gmach, Rob Gardner, Tom Christian, Ludmila Cherkasova: 1000 islands: an integrated approach to resource management for virtualized data centers. Cluster Computing 12(1): 45-57 (2009)

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alfons Kemper: Resource pool management: Reactive versus proactive or let's be friends. Computer Networks 53(17): 2905-2922 (2009)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat, Ningfang Mi, Julie Symons, Evgenia Smirni: Automated anomaly detection and performance modeling of enterprise applications. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27(3) (2009)

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Injecting realistic burstiness to a traditional client-server benchmark. ICAC 2009: 149-158

Ludmila Cherkasova, Kave Eshghi, Charles B. Morrey III, Joseph Tucek, Alistair C. Veitch: Applying syntactic similarity algorithms for enterprise information management. KDD 2009: 1087-1096

Ludmila Cherkasova, Roger Lau, Harald Burose, Bernhard Kappler: Enhancing and optimizing a data protection solution. MASCOTS 2009: 1-10

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova: Satisfying Service Level Objectices in a Self-Managing Resource Pool. SASO 2009: 243-253

Qi Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni: A regression-based analytic model for capacity planning of multi-tier applications. Cluster Computing 11(3): 197-211 (2008)

Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: How to parameterize models with bursty workloads. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 36(2): 38-44 (2008)

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Guillaume Belrose, Tom Turicchi, Alfons Kemper: An integrated approach to resource pool management: Policies, efficiency and quality metrics. DSN 2008: 326-335

Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat, Ningfang Mi, Julie Symons, Evgenia Smirni: Anomaly? application change? or workload change? towards automated detection of application performance anomaly and change. DSN 2008: 452-461

Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson, Zhikui Wang, Jerry Rolia, Sharad Singhal, Bret McKee, Chris Hyser, Daniel Gmach, Rob Gardner, Tom Christian, Ludmila Cherkasova: 1000 Islands: Integrated Capacity and Workload Management for the Next Generation Data Center. ICAC 2008: 172-181

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: Burstiness in Multi-tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models. Middleware 2008: 265-286

Timothy Wood, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat, Prashant J. Shenoy: Profiling and Modeling Resource Usage of Virtualized Applications. Middleware 2008: 366-387

Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat, Julie Symons, Evgenia Smirni: Analysis of application performance and its change via representative application signatures. NOMS 2008: 216-223

Wenting Tang, Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Amin Vahdat: Modeling and generating realistic streaming media server workloads. Computer Networks 51(1): 336-356 (2007)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat: Comparison of the three CPU schedulers in Xen. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 35(2): 42-51 (2007)

Qi Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni: A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Dynamic Resource Provisioning of Multi-Tier Applications. ICAC 2007: 27

Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alfons Kemper: Capacity Management and Demand Prediction for Next Generation Data Centers. ICWS 2007: 43-50

Qi Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Guy Mathews, Wayne Greene, Evgenia Smirni: A Capacity Planning Framework for Multi-tier Enterprise Services with Real Workloads. Integrated Network Management 2007: 781-784

Qi Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Guy Mathews, Wayne Greene, Evgenia Smirni: R-Capriccio: A Capacity Planning and Anomaly Detection Tool for Enterprise Services with Live Workloads. Middleware 2007: 244-265

Jerome A. Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Richard J. Friedrich: Performance engineering for EA systems in next generation data centresPerformance engineering for EA systems in next generation data centres. WOSP 2007: 50-53

Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt, Vijay Machiraju: Supporting application quality of service in shared resource pools. Commun. ACM 49(3): 55-60 (2006)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, Amin Vahdat: A unified benchmarking and model-based framework for building QoS-aware streaming media services. Multimedia Syst. 11(6): 532-549 (2006)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Jerome A. Rolia: R-Opus: A Composite Framework for Application Performability and QoS in Shared Resource Pools. DSN 2006: 526-535

Diwaker Gupta, Ludmila Cherkasova, Rob Gardner, Amin Vahdat: Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen. Middleware 2006: 342-362

Jerome A. Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Clifford McCarthy: Configuring Workload Manager Control Parameters for Resource Pools. NOMS 2006: 127-137

Ludmila Cherkasova: Optimizing the Reliable Distribution of Large Files within CDNs. ISCC 2005: 692-697

Ludmila Cherkasova, Rob Gardner: Measuring CPU Overhead for I/O Processing in the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2005: 387-390

Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt, Artur Andrzejak: A capacity management service for resource pools. WOSP 2005: 229-237

Ludmila Cherkasova, Minaxi Gupta: Analysis of enterprise media server workloads: access patterns, locality, content evolution, and rates of change. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 12(5): 781-794 (2004)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang: Sizing the streaming media cluster solution for a given workload. CCGRID 2004: 144-151

Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, Sharad Singhal: An SLA-Oriented Capacity Planning Tool for Streaming Media Services. DSN 2004: 743-752

Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang: Providing resource allocation and performance isolation in a shared streaming-media hosting service. SAC 2004: 1213-1218

Ludmila Cherkasova, Yun Fu, Wenting Tang, Amin Vahdat: Measuring and characterizing end-to-end Internet service performance. ACM Trans. Internet Techn. 3(4): 347-391 (2003)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Loren Staley: Building a Performance Model of Streaming Media Applications in Utility Data Center Environment. CCGRID 2003: 52-59

Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang: Capacity planning tool for streaming media services. ACM Multimedia 2003: 235-238

Wenting Tang, Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Amin Vahdat: MediSyn: a synthetic streaming media service workload generator. NOSSDAV 2003: 12-21

Ludmila Cherkasova, Jangwon Lee: FastReplica: Efficient Large File Distribution Within Content Delivery Networks. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems 2003

Ludmila Cherkasova, Peter Phaal: Session-Based Admission Control: A Mechanism for Peak Load Management of Commercial Web Sites. IEEE Trans. Computers 51(6): 669-685 (2002)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Loren Staley: Measuring the capacity of a streaming media server in a Utility Data Center environment. ACM Multimedia 2002: 299-302

Ludmila Cherkasova, Minaxi Gupta: Characterizing locality, evolution, and life span of accesses in enterprise media server workloads. NOSSDAV 2002: 33-42

Yun Fu, Amin Vahdat, Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang: EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2002: 115-130

Enrico Gregori, Ludmila Cherkasova, Gianpaolo Cugola, Fabio Panzieri, Gian Pietro Picco (Eds.): Web Engineering and Peer-to-Peer Computing, NETWORKING 2002 Workshops, Pisa, Italy, May 19-24, 2002, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2376, Springer 2002, isbn 3-540-44177-8

Ludmila Cherkasova, Mohan DeSouza, Shankar Ponnekanti: Performance Analysis of ``Content-Aware'' Load Balancing Strategy FLEX: Two Case Studies. HICSS 2001

Ludmila Cherkasova, Peter Phaal: Peak Load Management for Commercial Web Servers using Adaptive Session-based Admission Control. HICSS 2001

Ludmila Cherkasova, Gianfranco Ciardo: Role of Aging, Frequency, and Size in Web Cache Replacement Policies. HPCN Europe 2001: 114-123

Wenting Tang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Lance Russell, Matt W. Mutka: Modular TCP Handoff Design in STREAMS-Based TCP/IP Implementation. ICN (2) 2001: 71-81

Ludmila Cherkasova, Magnus Karlsson: Dynamics and Evolution of Web Sites: Analysis, Metrics and Design Issues. ISCC 2001: 64-71

Martin F. Arlitt, Ludmila Cherkasova, John Dilley, Rich Friedrich, Tai Jin: Evaluating content management techniques for Web proxy caches. SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 27(4): 3-11 (2000)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Mohan DeSouza, James Jobin: Analysis Tool for Web Hosting Service Providers. International Conference on Internet Computing 2000: 47-54

Richard Carter, Ludmila Cherkasova: Detecting Timed-Out Client Requests for Avoiding Livelock and Improving Web Server Performance. ISCC 2000: 2-7

Ludmila Cherkasova: FLEX: Load Balancing and Management Strategy for Scalable Web Hosting Service. ISCC 2000: 8-13

Ludmila Cherkasova, Shankar Ponnekanti: Optimizing a "Content-Aware" Load Balancing Strategy for Shared Web Hosting Service. MASCOTS 2000: 492-499

Ludmila Cherkasova, Peter Phaal: Predictive Admission Control Strategy for Overloaded Commercial Web Server. MASCOTS 2000: 500-

Ludmila Cherkasova: Scheduling Strategy to improve Response Time for Web Applications. HPCN Europe 1998: 305-314

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: Fibre Channel Fabrics: Evaluation and Design. HICSS (1) 1996: 53-62

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: The Impact of Message Scheduling on a Packet Switching Interconnect Fabric. HICSS (1) 1996: 668-

Ludmila Cherkasova, Al Davis, Robin Hodgson, Vadim E. Kotov, Ian N. Robinson, Tomas Rokicki: Components of Congestion Control. SPAA 1996: 208-210

Ludmila Cherkasova, Rodney R. Howell, Louis E. Rosier: Bounded Self-Stabilizing Petri Nets. Acta Inf. 32(3): 189-207 (1995)

Gianfranco Ciardo, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: Modeling A Fibre Channel Switch with Stochastic Petri Nets. SIGMETRICS 1995: 319-320

Ludmila Cherkasova, Al Davis, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: Colored Petri Net Methods for Performance Analysis of Scalable High-Speed Interconnects. MASCOTS 1994: 401-402

Alan L. Davis, Robin Hodgson, Ian N. Robinson, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: R2: A Damped Adaptive Router Design. PCRCW 1994: 295-309

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov, Tomas Rokicki: On Net Modeling of Industrial Size Concurrent Systems. Application and Theory of Petri Nets 1993: 552-561

Eike Best, Ludmila Cherkasova, Jörg Desel: Compositional Generation of Home States in Free Choice Nets. Formal Asp. Comput. 4(6): 572-581 (1992)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov: An Algebra of Concurrent Non-Deterministic Processes. Theor. Comput. Sci. 90(1): 151-170 (1991)

Ludmila Cherkasova, Rodney R. Howell, Louis E. Rosier: Bounded Self-Stabilizing Petri Nets. Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 1991: 26-50

Eike Best, Ludmila Cherkasova, Jörg Desel: Compositional Generation of Home States in Free Choice Systems. STACS 1991: 398-409

Ludmila Cherkasova, Alexander S. Filurin: Concurrent Processes with Synchronization: Net and Algebraic Approach. Logic at Botik 1989: 63-80

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov: Concurrent Nondeterministic Processes: Adequacy of Structure and Behaviour. MFCS 1989: 67-87

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov: Descriptive and analytical process algebras. European Workshop on Applications and Theory in Petri Nets 1988: 77-104

Ludmila Cherkasova: On Models and Algebras for Concurrent Processes. MFCS 1988: 27-43

Vadim E. Kotov, Ludmila Cherkasova: On Generalized Process Logic. FCT 1987: 246-250

Vadim E. Kotov, Ludmila Cherkasova: On structural properties of generalized processes. European Workshop on Applications and Theory in Petri Nets 1984: 288-306

Ludmila Cherkasova, Vadim E. Kotov: Structured Nets. MFCS 1981: 242-251