CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2006) 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 IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications 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 OVERVIEW 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 (edas.info). 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. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair ************* Laxmi Bhuyan, UC-Riverside Program Co-Chairs ***************** Michel Dubois, University of Southern California Will Eatherton, Cisco Systems Program Committee ***************** Gregory Byrd, North Carolina State University Patrick Crowley, Washington University in St. Louis Chita Das, Pennsylvania State University Jose Duato, Technical University of Valencia Hans Eberle, Sun Microsystems Manolis Katevenis, University of Crete T. V. Lakshman, Lucent Technologies Dan Lenoski, Nuova Impresa Robert Olsen, Cisco Systems Vijay Pai, Purdue University Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University Scott Rixner, Rice University Umar Saif, MIT Tim Sherwood, UC Santa Barbara Dimitrious Stiliadis, Bell Labs Chuck Thacker, Microsoft Jon Turner, Washington University in St. Louis George Varghese, UCSD Srnivasan Venkatachary, Netlogic Harrick Vin, UT Austin Bapi Vinnakota, Intel Tilman Wolf, UM Amherst Steering Committee ****************** Alan Berenbaum, Consultant Patrick Crowley, Washington Univ. at St. Louis Mark Franklin, Washington Univ. at St. Louis Haldun Hadimioglu, Polytechnic Univ. Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ. Peter Z. Onufryk, IDT K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs