Cathy H. Xia's Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Xia C.H. and Shanthikumar J.G. "Asymptotic Optimal Control of Multi-class G/G/1 Queues with Feedback". In Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains, J.G. Shanthikumar, D.D. Yao, W.H.M. Zijm (eds), Kluwer, 2003, pp. 127-139.

Journal Publications

  1. Xia C.H. and Dube P., "Dynamic Pricing in e-Services under Demand Uncertainty", To appear in Production and Operations Management, Special issue on Service Systems, December 2007.

  2. Liu Z., Tang A., Xia C.H., and Zhang L., "A Decentralized Control Mechanism for Stream Processing Networks'', To appear in Annals of Operations Research, Special issue on Stochastic Performance Models for Resource Allocation in Communication Systems, 2007.

  3. Feng H., Liu Z., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. "Load Shedding and Distributed Resource Control of Stream Processing Networks", To appear in Performance Evaluation, 2007.

  4. Dube P., Liu Z., Wynter L., and Xia C.H. "Competitive Equilibrium in e-Commerce: Pricing and Outsourcing", Computers & Operations Research, 34 (2007), 3541-3559.

  5. Liu Z., Wynter L., Xia C.H. and Zhang F., "Parameter Inference of Queueing Models for IT Systems using End-to-End Measurements", Performance Evaluation, 63 (2006): 36-60.

  6. Lin W., Liu Z., Xia C.H., and Zhang L. "Optimal Capacity Allocation for Web Systems with End-to-end Delay Guarantees", Performance Evaluation, 62 (2005): 400-416.

  7. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Zhang L. and Malouch N.M.. "Web Traffic Modeling at a Finer Time Scales and Performance Implication", Performance Evaluation - Special Issue on Long Range Dependence and Heavy Tail Distributions, 61 (2005): 181-201.

  8. Chang J., Ayhan H., Dai J. and Xia C.H., "Dynamic Scheduling of a Multiclass Fluid Model with Transient Overload", Queueing Systems, Theory and Applications, 48(3-4): 263-307, November-December, 2004.

  9. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., and Zhang L. "Lower Bounds for FBM/GI/1 Queues with Subexponential Service Times", Probability in the Engineering and Information Sciences (PEIS), 18: 87-101, 2004.

  10. Pekoz E., Righter R. and Xia C.H. "Characterizing Losses During Busy Periods in Finite Buffer Systems", Journal of Applied Probability, 40(1): 242-249, 2003.

  11. Xia C.H., Michailidis G. and Bambos N., and Glynn P.W. "Optimal Control of Parallel Queues with Batch Service", Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences(PEIS) 16: 289-307, 2002.

  12. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. "Optimal scheduling in queuing network models of high-volume commercial web sites", Performance Evaluation, 47(4): 223-242, 2002.

  13. Xia C.H., Michailidis G. and Bambos N. "Dynamic On-line Task Scheduling on Parallel Processors", Performance Evaluation, 46(2-3): 219-233, 2001.

  14. Xia C.H., Shanthikumar J.G. and Glynn P.W. "On the Asymptotic Optimality of the SPT Rule for the Static Flow Shop Average Completion Time Problem", Operations Research, 48 (2000): 615-622.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Towsley D. and Lelarge M., ''Scalability of Fork/Join Queueing Networks with Blocking'', PDF, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007.

  2. Liu J., Liu Z., Towsley D., and Xia C.H. ``Maximize the Data Utility of a Data Archiving & Querying System through Joint Coding and Scheduling'', PDF, Proc. of IPSN 2007.

  3. Xia C.H., Towsley D., and Zhang C. "Distributed Resource Management and Admission Control of Stream Processing Systems with Max Utility", PDF, ICDCS 2007

  4. Rong B., Douglis F., Liu Z., and Xia C.H., ``Failure Recovery in Cooperative Data Stream Analysis''. International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ( ARES 2007)

  5. Xia C.H., Broberg J., Liu Z. and Zhang L. "Distributed Resource Allocation in Stream Processing Systems". Proc. of 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006) .

  6. Broberg J., Xia C.H., Liu Z. and Zhang L. "A Multicommodity Flow Model for Distributed Stream Processing". Proc. of SIGMETRICS-Performance 2006, 2006,

  7. Tang A., Liu Z., Xia C.H., Zhang L. "Distributed Resource Allocation for Stream Data Processing Systems", Proc. of The 2006 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-06).

  8. Kayshyap A., Lastras L., Xia C.H.. Liu Z. "Distributed Source Coding in Dense Sensor Networks", PDF, Proc. of Data Compression Conference 2005(DCC'05), 13-22.

  9. Kashyap A., Xia C.H., Liu Z. and Dube P. "Scaling Laws of Sampling and Capacity of Sensors on Closed Surfaces", PDF, Proc. of ICWN 2005 - The 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks.

  10. Lelarge M., Liu Z. and Xia C.H. "Asymptotic Tail Distribution of End-to-End Delay in Networks of Queues with Self-Similar Cross Traffic", PDF, Proc. of INFOCOM 2004, pp. 2352- 2363.

  11. Xi B., Liu Z., Raghavachari M., Xia C.H., Zhang L. "A Smart Hill-Climbing Algorithm for Application Server Configuration", PDF, Proc. of WWW 2004, pp. 287-296.

  12. Wynter L., Xia C.H. and Zhang F. "Parameter Inference of Queueing Models for IT Systems using End-to-End Measurements", PDF, Proc. of SIGMETRICS-Performance 2004.

  13. Xia C.H. and Liu Z. "Queueing Systems with Long-Range Dependent Input Process and Subexponential Service Times", PDF, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS 2003. pp. 25-36.

  14. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante, M.S., Zhang, L. and Malouch, N., "Analysis of Performance Impact of Drill-down Techniques for Web Traffic Models", PDF, Proc. of the 18th International Teletaffic Congress (ITC18), pp. 409-418.

  15. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., Zhang L. "Profile-based Traffic Characterization of Commercial Web Sites", PDF, Proc. of the 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC18), pp. 231-240.

  16. Liu Z., Wynter L. and Xia C.H "Usage-based versus Flat Pricing for e-business Services with Differentiated QoS", PDF, Proc. of IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC 2003), pp. 355-362.

  17. Liu Z., Wynter L. and Xia C.H. "Pricing Information Services in a Competitive Market: Avoiding Price Wars", ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2003. pp. 188-189.

  18. Chang J., Ayhan H., Dai J., Liu Z., Squillante M., and Xia C.H. "Optimal Dynamic Scheduling in a Multiclass Fluid Model of Internet Servers with Transient Overload", PDF, 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2003), vol. 1, pp. 721-727.

  19. Dube P., Liu Z., Wynter L. and Xia C.H., "Outsourcing and Price-QoS Equilibrium for E-Commerce and Internet Firms: IT On-Demand", 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2003), vol. 6, pp. 5801-5806.

  20. Liu Z., Xia C.H., Momcilovic P. and Zhang L. "AMBIENCE: Automatic Model Building using InferEnce", IBM Academy of Technology, Performance Engineering 'Best Practices' Topical Conference IV , 2003.

  21. Zhang L., Liu Z., Riabov A., Schulman M., Xia C.H. and Zhang F. "A Comprehensive Toolset for Workload Characterization, Performance Modeling and On-line Control", Computer Performance Evaluation/TOOLS, 2003: 63-77.

  22. Lin W., Liu Z., Stavropoulos H., and Xia C.H. "Hard Deadline Queueing System with Application to Unified Messaging Service", ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, 31(2): 31-33, 2003.

  23. Liu Z., Xia C.H., Momcilovic P. and Zhang L, "AMBIENCE: Automatic Model Building using InferENCE", Congress MSR03, Metz, France, 06-08/10/2003.

  24. Zhang L., Liu Z. and Xia C.H. "Clock Synchronization Algorithms for Network Measurements", Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2002, vol. 1, pp. 160-169.

  25. Xia C.H., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Zhang L., Malouch N. "Traffic Modeling and Performance Analysis of Commercial Web Sites", SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 30(3): 32-34, 2002.

  26. Zhang L., Xia C.H., Squillante M.S., Mills N. "Workload Service Requirements Analysis: A Queueing Network Optimization Approach", Proc. of MASCOTS 2002: the Tenth IEEE International. Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2002, pp. 23-32.

  27. Yu S.-Z., Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Zhang L. "A Hidden Semi-Markov Model for Web Workload Self-similarity", 21st IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2002).

  28. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., Zhang L., Dantzig P.M. and Malouch N.M. "Analysis of Measurement Data from Sporting Event Web Sites", IEEE Globecom 2002, vol.3, pp. 2543- 2547.

  29. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z., Zhang L., Malouch N.M., and Dantzig P.. "Analysis of Caching Mechanisms from Sporting Event Web Sites", Proc. of the7th Asian Computing Science Conference on Advances in Computing Science(ASIAN 2002), pp.76-86.

  30. Liu Z., Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yu S.-Z. and Zhang L. "Traffic Profiling, Clustering and Classification for Commercial Web Sites", The 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Management(ICTSM10), 2002.

  31. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H., Yao D.D. and Zhang L. "Threshold-Based Priority Policies for Parallel-Server Systems with Affinity Scheduling", PDF, Proc. of the American Control Conference, 2001, pp. 2992-2999.

  32. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. "Optimal Scheduling in Queueing Network Models of High-Volume Commercial Web Sites", SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 29(3):47-48, 2001.

  33. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. "Optimal Scheduling in Queueing Network Models of High-Volume Web Sites", Select Proceedings of the SPIE-2000 Conference on Internet Quality and Performance and Control of Network Systems, vol. 4211, 2001, pp. 113-121.

  34. Squillante M.S., Xia C.H. and Zhang L. "Optimal Scheduling in Multiclass Models of High-Volume Commercial Web Sites", Proc. of the 5th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2000.
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