Recent publications by Pieter-Tjerk de Boer

• Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt, Sandeep Juneja: "Some Advances in Importance Sampling of Reliability Models Based on Zero Variance Approximation". Accepted for RESIM 2012.

• Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt, Boudewijn R. Haverkort: "Fast Simulation for Slow Paths in Markov Models". Accepted for RESIM 2012.

• Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt, Boudewijn R. Haverkort: "Rare Event Simulation for Model Checking of Highly Dependable Systems". Performance Evaluation. To appear, 2012.
  (Extended version of the 2010 QEST paper, see below.)
  Available online.

• Anna Sperotto, Michel Mandjes, Ramin Sadre, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, and Aiko Pras: "Autonomic Parameter Tuning of Anomaly-Based IDSs: an SSH Case Study". IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, March 2012.
  Available online.

• Anna Kolesnichenko, Anne Remke, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Boudewijn Haverkort: A logic for model-checking of mean-field models. Presentation report at Tenth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL), Tallinn, Estonia, 2012.

• Anna Kolesnichenko, Anne Remke, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, and Boudewijn R. Haverkort: "Comparison of the mean-field approach and simulation in a peer-to-peer botnet case study". 8th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW) 2011 (LNCS 6977), Borrowdale, UK, October 2011.
  Available online.

• Floris van Nee and Pieter-Tjerk de Boer: "On the Benefit of Forward Error Correction at IEEE 802.11 Link Layer Level". EUNICE 2011 (LNCS 6955), Dresden, Germany, September 2011.
  Available online.

• Anna Kolesnichenko, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Anne Remke, Emmanuele Zambon, and Boudewijn R. Haverkort: "Is Quantitative Analysis of Stuxnet Possible?". Fast Abstract at the 8th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 2011.
  Available online.

• Michiel C.M. Soer, Eric A.M. Klumperink, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Frank E. van Vliet, Bram Nauta: "Unified Frequency Domain Analysis of Switched-Series-RC Passive Mixers and Samplers". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 2010, pp. 2618-2631.
  Available online.

• Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt, Boudewijn R. Haverkort: "Rare Event Simulation for Model Checking of Highly Dependable Systems". 7th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2010, Williamsburg, USA, September 2010.
  Available online.

• Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt: "A new, analysis-based, change of measure for tandem queues". 8th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2010), Cambridge, UK, June 2010
  Available online.

• Daniël Reijsbergen, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R.W. Scheinhardt: " Transient Behaviour in Highly Dependable Markovian Systems: New Regimes, Many Paths". 8th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2010), Cambridge, UK, June 2010
  Available online.

• Anna Sperotto, Ramin Sadre, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Aiko Pras: "Hidden Markov Model modeling of SSH brute-force attacks".
  Proceedings of the 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2009 (LNCS 5841) Venice, Italy, October 2009, pp. 164-176.
  Available online.

• Giovane C. Moreira Moura, Tiago Fioreze, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Aiko Pras: "Optical Switching Impact on TCP Throughput Limited by TCP Buffers".
  Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2009 (LNCS 5843) Venice, Italy, October 2009, pp. 161-166.
  Available online.

• José Camacho, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Anne K.I. Remke: "Survivability of SCADA Control Loop".
  CTIT technical report 09-46.

• Tatiana S. Zaburnenko, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Boudewijn R.H.M. Haverkort: "Extension of heuristics for simulating population overflow in Jackson tandem queuing networks to non-Markovian tandem queuing networks".
  7th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2008), Rennes, France, September 2008

• Desislava Dimitrova, Georgios Karagiannis, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer: "Severe congestion handling approaches in NSIS RMD domains with bi-directional reservations". Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 14, 5 September 2008, pp. 3153-3162. Available online.

• Edwin Woudt, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Jan-Kees van Ommeren: "Improving adaptive importance sampling simulation of Markovian queueing models using non-parametric smoothing". Simulation, December 2007 (which finally appeared around April 2008), Vol. 83, No. 12, pp. 811-820.
  Available online.

• Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Gerardo Rubino and Bruno Tuffin: "Estimating the Probability of a Rare Event Over a Finite Time Horizon" Proc. of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'07), Washington, USA, December 2007, pp. 403-411
  Available online (PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).

• Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Werner R.W. Scheinhardt: "Alternative proof and interpretations for a recent state-dependent importance sampling scheme." Queueing Systems, November 2007, Vol. 57, No. 2-3, pp. 61-69.
  Available online at Springerlink.
  Also presented at 14th Informs Applied Probability Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007
  An earlier version appeared as Memorandum 1828, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, March 2007.

• R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer: "Bitloading with reduced computational complexity order for a multicarrier multimode PON." Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium IEEE/LEOS Benelux Chapter, 17-18 Dec 2007, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 171-174.

• R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer, B. Sikkes: "Dynamic capacity allocation for low-cost multicarrier multimode PON." Proceedings of the Thirty-third European Conference on Optical Communication, 16-20 Sep 2007, Berlin, Germany, pp. 55-56.

• R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer, B. Sikkes: "Application of feasible vertex labeling for dynamic capacity allocation of a multicarrier multimode PON." Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, 18-21 June 2007, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 407-414.

• P.T. de Boer: "Some Observations on Importance Sampling and RESTART". Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM 2006), Bamberg, Germany, October 2006

• P.T. de Boer: "Analysis of State-Independent Importance-Sampling Measures for the Two-Node Tandem Queue". ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, July 2006, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 225-250. Available online http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1147224.1147226.
  Extended abstract in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Combinatorial Optimization (RESIM COP 2004), Budapest, Hungary, September 2004
  Note: the printed (i.e., "hardcopy") version of this paper contains some minor copyediting errors; please use the online version instead.

• R.O. Taniman, B. Sikkes, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer: "Stable-matching-based subcarrier assignment method for multimode PON using a multicarrier variant of subcarrier multiplexing". 11th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications, Berlin, Germany, July 2006.

• Mark Timmer, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Aiko Pras: "How to Identify the Speed Limiting Factor of a TCP Flow". Fourth IEEE/IFIP Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON'06), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006.
  Also available online at IEEExplore

• P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, S. Mannor, R.Y. Rubinstein: "A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method". Annals of Operations Research, January 2005, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 19-67.
  Also available online at SpringerLink and at the cross-entropy method homepage.

• P.T. de Boer: "Rare-event simulation of non-Markovian queueing networks using a state-dependent change of measure determined using cross-entropy". Annals of Operations Research, January 2005, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 69-100.
  Also available online at SpringerLink
  Extended abstract in Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Combinatorial Optimization (RESIM COP 2004), Budapest, Hungary, September 2004

• P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, R.Y. Rubinstein: "A Fast Cross-Entropy Method for Estimating Buffer Overflows in Queueing Networks". Management Science, July 2004, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 883-895.
  Available online (PDF format).
  Earlier version in Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Related Combinatorial Optimization Problems (RESIM/COP'02), Madrid, Spain, 2002

• P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, R.Y. Rubinstein: "Estimating Buffer Overflows in Three Stages Using Cross-Entropy" Proc. of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'02), San Diego, California, 2002, 301-309
  Available online (PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).

• "Adaptive state-dependent importance sampling simulation of Markovian Queuing networks," European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2002, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 303-315.
  (with V.F. Nicola)
  Available online (PDF format).

• "The Remaining Service Time Upon Reaching a High Level in M/G/1 Queues," Queueing Systems, 2001, vol. 39, p. 55-78.
  (with V.F. Nicola and J.C.W. van Ommeren)
  Available online (at the publisher's website).

• "Adaptive Importance Sampling Simulation of Queueing Networks," Proc. of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'00), Orlando, Florida, 2000, 646-655
  (with V.F. Nicola and R.Y. Rubinstein)
  Available online (PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).

• Analysis and efficient simulation of queueing models of telecommunication systems, Ph.D. thesis, University of Twente, 2000. Available online.

• "Dynamic Importance Sampling Simulation of Queueing Networks: An Adaptive Approach Based on Cross-Entropy," Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM'2000), Pisa, Italy, 2000
  (with V.F. Nicola and R.Y. Rubinstein)

• "On the Estimation of Rare Event Probabilities Involving IID Sums," Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM'99), Enschede, The Netherlands, 1999, 133-138.
  (with V.F. Nicola and R. Srinivasan)

• "A Hybrid Importance Sampling Estimation of Consecutive Cell Loss Probability," AEU Int. J. Electron. Commun., 1998, 52, 3, 133-140
  (with V.F. Nicola)

• "Analysis of Per-Stream Consecutive Cell Loss in a Multiple Source Queueing Model," Proc. of the Fourth Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Ilkley, UK, 1996
  (with V.F. Nicola)

• "Soliton Switching in Directional Couplers," Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1999, 16, 65-99
  (with Theo P. Valkering en Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra)

• "Soliton dynamics in directional couplers," Physica D 1998, 123, 223-234
  (with Theo P. Valkering en Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra)
  Available online (abstract at the publisher's website, full text via ScienceDirect).

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