NAS18

The 13th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS18)

Sponsored by IEEE

NAS provides a high-quality international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2018 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE digital library.

Topics of Interest:

• Accelerator-based architectures
• Ad hoc and sensor networks
• Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures
• Architecture for handheld or mobile devices
• Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies
• Big Data infrastructure
• Big Data services and analytics
• Cloud and grid computing
• Cloud storage
• Data-center scale architectures
• Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture
• Energy-aware storage
• File systems, object-based storage
• GPU architecture and programming
• HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs
• Mobile and wireless networks Network applications and services
• Network architecture and protocols
• Network information theory
• Network modeling and measurement
• Network security
• Non-volatile memory technologies
• Parallel and multi-core architectures
• Parallel I/O
• Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
• Processor, cache, memory system architectures
• Software defined networking Software defined storage
• SSD architecture and applications Storage management
• Storage performance and scalability
• Storage virtualization and security Virtual and overlay networks

Organizing and Program Committee

Steering Committees

- Xubin He, Temple University, USA (Chair)
- Andre Brinkmann, University of Mainz, Germany
- Christian Engelmann, ORNL, China
- Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Xiaofeng Liao, Southwest University, China
- Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA
- Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
- Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
- Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Chengzong Xu, Wayne State University, USA
- Zhibin Yu, SIAT, China

General Chairs

- Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA
- Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University

Vice General Chair

- Songtao Guo, Southwest University, China

Program Chair

- Howie Huang, The George Washington University, USA

Vice Program Chairs
--- Networking Track ---

- Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA

--- Architecture Track ---

- Huiyang Zhou, North Carolina State University, USA

--- Storage Track ---

- Alan Sussman, University of Maryland College Park, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs

- Tao Xiang, Chongqing University
- Huiwei Wang, Southwest University

Finance Co-Chairs

- Ying Wang, Southwest University
- Yan Wu, Southwest University

Registration Co-Chairs

- Guangxia Xu, CQUPT
- Fei Wang, Southwest University

Publication Chair

- Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
- Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Industry Chair

- Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Publicity Chairs

- Zhonghai Lu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Shuaiwen Leon Song , PNNL, USA
- Chentao Wu, SJTU, China

Web Chair

- Ahsen Uppal, The Geoge Washington University, USA