ANCHOR 2006

 

Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop

 

Held in conjunction with the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2006)

Boston, MA, June 18, 2006

 

 

 

ANCHOR 2006 Home Page: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/anchor

 

ISCA 2006 Home Page: http://www.ece.neu.edu/conf/isca2006/

 

Call for Papers (html | pdf)

 

 

News:

 

Preliminary Program is available.

 

 

 

 

Prior ANCHORs:

 

ANCHOR 2005

ANCHOR 2004

 

 

Workshop Overview:

 

The rapid expansion of networking applications and data traffic is leading to new specialized network component designs that can keep up with the growing field of networking and communications. Network component design becomes more challenging as performance and usage of communication networks increase. This workshop focuses on hardware architecture design approaches for packet-switched networks. The workshop aims at providing a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss their latest research on emerging network services. There is a growing interest in extensible networks, overlay networks, and grid computing, and higher layer processing built in hardware can effectively support these networks and computational approaches. This year's workshop will be looking for contributions that can benefit these communities.

 

 

Submission Topics:

 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

 

-         Switch and router architectures (including optical and fiber channel networks)

-         Communications and network processors

-         Co-processors (classification, search engine, traffic manager, etc.)

-         Specialized offload engines (protocol offload engines, I/O adapters, etc.)

-         Architectures for security applications

-         Architectures for processor-memory interconnection

-         Hardware accelerators for emerging network services (overlay, extensible, grid computing, etc.)

-         Application-specific designs (compression, QoS, etc.)

-         Power-efficient architectures

-         High-level software for networking hardware

 

 

Organizers:

 

Taskin Kocak, University of Central Florida

Gokhan Memik, Northwestern University

Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

 

 

Program Committee:

 

Brad Calder, UCSD

Maria Gabrani, IBM Research – Zurich

Mark Heinrich, UCF

Andreas Herkersdorf, TU Munchen

Dirk Hoenicke, IBM T.J. Watson

Bill Mangione-Smith, Quantum Intellectual Property Services

Steve Melvin, Zytek Communications

Christian Sauer, Infineon

 

 

Submission Guidelines:

 

Submit a 6000-word manuscript in email (pdf or ps format) to anchor@ece.northwestern.edu by March 31st, 2006 (extended to April 16th, 2006)

Notifications will be sent on April 28th May 8th. The final versions of the papers are due May 22nd, 2006.