Call for Papers:

NAS 2021

Final Submission Deadline
December 6, 2020

The 15th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2021)
Riverside Convention Center, CA, May 3-5, 2021

Submissions Due: Dec 6, 2020

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The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage provide a high-quality international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies.

NAS 2021 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, including, but not limited to:

  • Accelerator-based architectures
  • Ad hoc and sensor networks
  • Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures
  • Architecture for handheld or mobile devices
  • Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies
  • Big Data infrastructure
  • Big Data services and analytics
  • Cloud and grid computing
  • Cloud storage
  • Data-center scale architectures
  • Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture
  • Energy-aware storage
  • File systems, object-based storage
  • GPU architecture and programming
  • HW/SW co-design and trade offs
  • Mobile and wireless networks
  • Network applications and services
  • Network architecture and protocols
  • Network information theory
  • Network modeling and measurement
  • Network security
  • Non-volatile memory technologies
  • Parallel and multi-core architectures
  • Parallel I/O
  • Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
  • Processor, cache, memory system architectures
  • Software defined networking
  • Software defined storage
  • SSD architecture and applications
  • Storage management
  • Storage performance and scalability
  • Storage virtualization and security
  • Virtual and overlay networks

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Each submission can have up to 8 pages, including all text, figures, tables, footnotes, appendices, references, etc. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. The program committee will nominate the best papers for recognition in the three conference topic areas. All papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insight, experimental evaluation, and potential for long-term impact; new-idea papers are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library. Selected and extended papers will be recommended for journal publications.

Important Dates:

  • Paper Submission Deadline: Dec 6, 2020
  • Author Notification: Feb 15, 2021
  • Camera-ready Paper: March 15, 2021

Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas21

 

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Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Laxmi N. Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside

Program Co-Chairs:
Chita Das, Penn State University
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island
Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis Hong Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington