ANCHOR 2004 Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop Held in conjunction with the 31^st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2004) Munich - Germany, June 19-23 2004

ANCHOR 2004 Home Page: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/anchor

ISCA 2004 Home Page: http://wwwbode.cs.tum.edu/~isca

Call for Papers (html | pdf)

Final Program for ANCHOR 2004

NEWS: Deadline for the final paper submission is extended until April 23^rd, 2004.

Workshop Overview:

The rapid expansion of networking applications and data traffic are leading to new specialized network component designs that would keep up with the growing field of networking and communications. Network component design becomes more challenging as the performance and usage of communication networks increase. This workshop focuses on the architectural design approaches for packet-switched networks. From sensor to storage area networks, packet-switched networks are utilized in a wide range of system domains. Furthermore, 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. Higher layer processing built in hardware can powerfully support these networks and computational styles. This year’s workshop will be looking for contributions that will 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

Program Committee:

Brad Calder, UCSD

Maria Gabrani, IBM Research – Zurich

Jorge García, UPC

Mark Heinrich, UCF

Bill Mangione-Smith, UCLA

Nick McKeown, Stanford

Steve Melvin, O'M&M

Raj Yavatkar, Intel

Submission Guidelines:

- Submit a 200-word abstract including title and complete author list in email (plain text preferred) to anchor@ece.northwestern.edu by April 9^th, 2004.

- Submit a 6000-word manuscript in email (pdf or ps format) to anchor@ece.northwestern.edu by April 16^th, 2004.

Notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent out on May 17^th.