ANCS 2008

The 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems http://www.ancsconf.org

November 6-7, 2008 San Jose, California, USA

Sponsored by: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM) IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Computer Architecture

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration and abstract:         June 16, 2008 Submission deadline:                     June 23, 2008 Author notification:                   August 26, 2008

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

ANCS is a research conference that focuses on the architecture and design of hardware and software for modern communication networks. The combination of increasing network bandwidth and expanding functionality pose continuing and growing challenges for system designers. New technology elements, including network processors, content addressable memories, chip multi-core processors, configurable logic and special-purpose components offer new opportunities for meeting these challenges, but also raise a variety of new issues. ANCS focuses on networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced communications systems, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures. Our emphasis this year will be on hardware and software elements in the context of systems that enable networks to evolve and scale.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
 * System design for future Network Architectures
 * Network/communications processors
 * Intelligent co-processors
 * Router architectures
 * Emerging Technologies (e.g., optical components, etc.)
 * Switch fabrics/interconnection networks
 * Link scheduling, processor/thread scheduling, switch scheduling
 * Network adapters
 * Application-specific networks (e.g., SAN, XML Switching)
 * Programmable /extensible networks
 * Secure communication
 * Traffic management
 * Packet classification
 * Content inspection and filtering
 * Energy-efficient designs
 * Multi-core processors and networking
 * Open platforms
 * Networks on-chip

The PAPER DEADLINE for submissions is June 23, 2008 at 11:59PM PST (US). ANCS will use double-blind reviewing, so submitted papers should not include the authors' names. Paper registration and submission must be done electronically through EDAS (edas.info). Registration, including the abstract, must be completed no later than June 16, 2008 at 11:59PM PDT (US). All papers must be submitted in PDF format on letter-size paper. Submissions must be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5.0 or higher) and should not exceed 10 pages in ACM/SIG conference paper format using 10 pt font. Submissions exceeding the maximum limit will not be reviewed by the program committee. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers will be required to use the ACM SIG format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

We encourage submissions containing original ideas. Like other conferences, ANCS requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to any other conferences or publications; that submissions not be previously published; and that accepted papers not be subsequently published elsewhere.

Contact the program chairs with any questions at ancsTPC@arl.wustl.edu.

GENERAL CHAIR Mark Franklin, Washington University

PROGRAM CHAIRS D.K. Panda, Ohio State University Dimitri Stiliadis, Bell Labs

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dan Blumenthal, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Greg Byrd, North Carolina State University Patrick Crowley, Washington University Chita R Das, Pennsylvania State Univ. and NSF Cezary Dubnicki, NEC Research Will Eatherton, Cisco Hans Eberle, Sun Microsytems Dirk Grunwald, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder Manolis Katevenis, Forth-ICS, Greece T. V. Lakshman, Bell Laboratory Bill Lin, Univ. of California, San Diego John Lockwood, Stanford University Ahmed Louri, Univ. of Arizona Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Kobus van der Merwe, AT&T Research Robert Olsen, Cisco Peter Onufryk, IDT Vijay Pai, Purdue University Craig Partridge, BBN K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan Chuck Thacker, Microsoft Jonathan Turner, Washington University M. Vachharajani, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder Anujan Varma, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Srinivasan Venkatachary, Netlogic Microsystems Bapi Vinnakota, Intel Tilman Wolf, Univ. of Massachusetts John Wroclawski, ISI Raj Yavatkar, Intel Yin Zhang, Univ. of Texas, Austin

STEERING COMMITTEE Alan Berenbaum, SMSC Laxmi Bhuyan, UC-Riverside Patrick Crowley, Washington U. Mark Franklin, Washington U. Haldun Hadimioglu, Polytech. U. Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ. Peter Z. Onufryk, IDT K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Raj Yavatkar, Intel This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP