The 11th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS '15) will be held May 7-8 at Oakland, CA, USA. 
ANCS will be co-located with the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '15), which will be held May 4-6.

News

Oct 31, 2014	ANCS 2015 website is online.
Nov 22, 2014	ANCS 2015 submission website is online.
Jan 8, 2015	ANCS 2015 deadlines have been extended.
March 9, 2015	ANCS 2015 call for posters is online.
March 12, 2015	ANCS 2015 hotel and travel information has been posted.
March 19, 2015	ANCS 2015 conference registration is open.
April 8, 2015	ANCS 2015 conference program is online.
May 11, 2015	ANCS 2015 keynote 2 presentation slides have been posted.

Important Dates

Papers  - Abstract submission deadline	Jan 15, 2015 at 11:59 PM PST (US)
Papers  - Full paper submission deadline	Jan 22, 2015 at 11:59 PM PST (US)
Papers  - Notification of acceptance	March 9, 2015
Papers  - Camera-ready submission deadline	April 6, 2015
Posters  - Abstract submission deadline	March 23, 2015 at 11:59 PM PST (US)
Posters  - Notification of acceptance	March 30, 2015
Posters  - Camera-ready submission deadline	April 6, 2015

Technical Scope

ANCS is a systems-oriented research conference, presenting original work that explores the relationship between the algorithms and architectures of data communication networks and the hardware and software elements from which these networks are built.  This includes both experimental and theoretical analysis.  To recognize and foster the increasing importance of research into the co-design of computer and network systems, the conference also places an emphasis on systems issues arising from the interaction of computer and network architectures.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• System design for future network architectures
• Router and switch architectures
• High-speed networking algorithms and mechanisms
• Software Defined Networking systems
• Network Functions Virtualization architectures
• Virtualized infrastructure architectures and systems
• Architectures for data centers
• Converged router, server, and storage platforms
• Host-network interface issues
• Techniques and systems for large-scale data analysis
• Wireless network hardware and related software, including software radios
• Mesh, ad hoc and sensor network hardware and related software
• Information-centric network architectures, platforms, and mechanisms
• Network security architectures and security anchor/enhancement devices
• Network measurement techniques, architectures, and devices
• Scalable programming and application frameworks
• High-performance and high-function network processing platforms
• Power- and size-optimized computer and communications platforms
• Hardware accelerators and offload engines
• Single-chip networking elements, e.g., multicore, NPU, FPGA, TCAM, custom ASIC
• Network-on-Chip architectures and applications
• Memory architectures and technologies for packet, state and table storage.

Organizing Committee

General Chair	Gordon Brebner	Xilinx, USA
Program Chairs	Alex Bachmutsky	Ericsson, USA
	Chita Das	Pennsylvania State University, USA
Proceedings Chair	Adwait Jog	Pennsylvania State University, USA
Finance Chair	Weirong Jiang	Xilinx, USA
Publicity Chair	Eric Keller	University of Colorado, USA
Poster Chair	Won So	NetApp, USA
Travel Grants Chair	Danai Chasaki	Villanova University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair	Christopher Neely	Xilinx, USA
Web Chair	Yun Rock Qu	University of Southern California, USA

Sponsors

ANCS 2015 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH), the ACM Special Interest Group on Communications (SIGCOMM), and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA). USENIX is an in-cooperation sponsor of ANCS 2015.

Contacts

Web Chair: Yun Rock Qu