ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
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, 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 in networking
Open platforms
Networks on-chip
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM)
IEEE Computer Society Tech. Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)
For more information visit the ANCS Conference home page here.