CFP - 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip - NOCS 2015

Call for Papers

9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on 

Networks-on-Chip 

September 28 – 30, 2015

Vancouver, Canada

The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip, chip-scale, and multichip package scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations and applications from inter-related research communities, including computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design automation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

NoC Architecture and Implementation

• Network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration)
• NoC Quality of Service
• Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication
• NoC reliability issues
• Network interface issues
• NoC design methodologies and tools
• Signaling & circuit design for NoC links

NoC Analysis and Verification

• Power, energy & thermal issues(at the NoC, un-core and/or system-level)
• Benchmarking & experience with NoC-based hardware
• Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoCs
• Verification, debug & test of NoCs
• Metrics and benchmarks for NoCs

Novel NoC Technologies

• New physical interconnect technologies, e.g., carbon nanotubes, wireless NoCs, through-silicon, etc. 
• NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages
• Package-specific NoC design
• Optical, RF, & emerging technologies for on-chip/in-package interconnects

NoC Application

• Mapping of applications onto NoCs
• NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design
• NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs
• NoC designs for heterogeneous systems, fused CPU-GPU architectures, etc
• Scalable modeling of NoCs

NoC at the Un-Core and System-level 

• Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols & NoCs
• NoC support for memory and cache access 
• OS support for NoCs
• Programming models including shared memory, message passing and novel programming models
• Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks

On-Chip Communication Optimization

• Communication efficient algorithms
• Multi/many-core communication workload characterization & evaluation
• Energy efficient NoCs and energy minimization

Electronic paper submission requires a full paper, up to 8 double-column IEEE format pages, including figures and references. The program committee in a double-blind review process will evaluate papers based on  scientific merit, innovation, relevance, and presentation.Submitted papers must describe original work that has  not been published before or is under review by another conference or journal at the same time. Each  submission will be checked for any significant similarity to previously published works or for simultaneous  submission to other archival venues, and such papers will be rejected. Please see the paper submission  instructions for details.This year will also include one or more industrial sessions on the architecture of future  NoC platforms. The objective of these sessions is to provide a forum for industry leaders to share their  experiences and perspectives on the technical challenges facing future platforms and discuss potential  solutions. Check the submission page for details on submissions to this session. These sessions will feature a  small number of papers (4-6) covering experiences from industrial design and development.  

Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and panels are also invited. Please see the detailed submission  instructions for paper, tutorial, special sessions, and panel proposals at the submission page.

Important Dates

• Abstract registration deadline February, 27th, 2015    
• Full paper submission deadline March 6th, 2015    
• Notification of acceptance May 5th, 2015
• Final version due June 1st, 2015
• Industry Session submission deadline March 23rd 2015

Contact Information

General Co-Chairs

• Andre Ivanov, University of British Columbia <ivanov@ece.ubc.ca>
• Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University <dianam@cmu.edu>

Program Co-Chairs

• Partha Pratim Pande, Washington State University <pande@eecs.wsu.edu>
• José Flich, Universitat Politècnica de València <jflich@disca.upv.es>