--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - ANCS 2021 16th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS ' 21) https://ancsconf.org/ December 13 - 15, 2021, ONLINE Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: Paper submission deadline: September 22nd, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANCS is the premier forum for presenting and discussing original research 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. ANCS focuses on architectures for networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced communication, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, co-design of computer and network systems, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures. ANCS 2021 will be held online. *** Call for Papers *** The conference seeks an emphasis on the applicability and feasibility of approach, and will prioritize implementation and measurement-led submissions. Authors are invited to include artifacts and data sets as part of their submission, and those would be looked favourably by the committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Disaggregated computing - Heterogeneous architectures - Hardware offloading and accelerators - Domain-specific languages - Operating systems and virtualization - Algorithms - Switch/router/middlebox/NIC designs - SDN/NFV systems - In-network computing - Host networking - Network, compute, memory and storage convergence - Hardware/software co-design - Reconfigurable and programmable hardware - Security, measurement, benchmark and management - Emerging applications and use cases *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: 22 September 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2021 Camera Ready version due: 30 November 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Conference dates: December 13 - 15, 2021 *** Submission *** A submission must be a regular paper (up to 12 pages), short paper (6 pages, either in-progress or complete work) or poster abstract (3 pages, in-progress work). These page limits do not include references. The review process is double blind; papers must not indicate author names or affiliations. Papers must be in the PDF format and submitted via https://ancs21.hotcrp.com. The papers must be formatted using the ACM Primary Article Templates ("2. The Workflow and Templates" in https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions, ) and document class arguments of [10pt,sigconf,letterpaper,anonymous,nonacm]. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General chair: Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University Web chair: Manh Hung Nguyen, CYCU Publications chair: Jiri Matousek, Brno University of Technology Publicity Chair: Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge Program committee co-chairs: Suhaib Fahmy, KAUST, and Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh Dr.-Ing. Jasmin Jahić University of Cambridge, UK