CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for
Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS)
http://www.ancsconf.org
December 3-5, 2006
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 (TCCA)
IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)

ANCS is a research conference that focuses on the design of the hardware and software components used to create modern communication networks. The combination of increasing network line speeds and expanding functional requirements pose continuing and growing challenges for system designers. New technology elements, including network processors, content addressable memories, configurable logic and special-purpose components offer new opportunities for meeting these challenges, but also raise a variety of new issues. ANCS focuses on architectures for networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced communication, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Network/communications processors
Intelligent co-processors
Router architectures
Switch fabrics/interconnection networks
Link scheduling, processor/thread scheduling, switch scheduling
Network adaptors
Application-specific networks (e.g. SAN)
Programmable /extensible networks
Secure communication
Traffic management
Packet classification
Content inspection and filtering
Energy-efficient designs

We particularly encourage submissions containing highly original ideas. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, and correctness.

The PAPER DEADLINE for submissions is July 24, 2006 at 11:59PM PST (US). NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED. 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. You can submit your abstract and paper here. Registration, including the abstract, must be completed no later than July 17, 2006 at 11:59PM PDT (US). All papers must be submitted in PDF format for letter-size paper. Submissions must be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5.0 or higher) and should not exceed 7,000 words or 10 pages of conference paper format using 10 pt fonts. Submissions exceeding the required 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 (www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

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.

All submissions will be acknowledged by September 22, 2006. If your submission is not acknowledged by this date, please contact the program chairs promptly at ancsTPC@arl.wustl.edu.

Important Dates

Paper registration and abstract	July 17, 2006
Submission deadline	July 24, 2006
Author notification	September 22, 2006
Final camera-ready copy	October 15, 2006

Conference Organization

General Chair	Laxmi Bhuyan, UC-Riverside
Program Chairs	Michel Dubois, USC
Program Chairs	Will Eatherton, Cisco
Program Committee	Gregory Byrd, North Carolina State U.
	Patrick Crowley, Washington U.
	Chita Das, Pennsylvania State U.
	Jose Duato, Technical U. of Valencia
	Hans Eberle, Sun Microsystems
	Manolis Katevenis, U. of Crete
	T. V. Lakshman, Lucent Technologies
	Dan Lenoski, Nuova Impresa
	Robert Olsen, Cisco Systems
	Vijay Pai, Purdue U.
	Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State U.
	Scott Rixner, Rice U.
	Umar Saif, MIT
	Tim Sherwood, UC Santa Barbara
	Dimitrious Stiliadis, Bell Labs
	Chuck Thacker, Microsoft
	Jon Turner, Washington U.
	George Varghese, UC San Diego
	Srnivasan Venkatachary, Netlogic
	Harrick Vin, UT Austin
	Bapi Vinnakota, Intel
	Tilman Wolf, UM Amherst
Finance	Jason Ding, Cisco
Local Arrangements	Bapi Vinnekota, Intel
Registration	Suneuy Kim, San Jose State U.
Publicity and Publications	Patrick Crowley, Washington U.
Steering Committee	Alan Berenbaum, SMSC
	Patrick Crowley, Washington U.
	Mark Franklin, Washington U.
	Haldun Hadimioglu, Polytechnic U.
	Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ.
	Peter Z. Onufryk, IDT
	K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs