IEEE NAS 2011
Dates: July 28-30
Dalian, Liaoning, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture,
and Storage (NAS 2011)

http://www.nas-conference.org/
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Overview
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The objective of IEEE NAS 2011 is to serve as an 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.


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: March 25, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2011
Camera-ready Paper: June 10, 2011
Conference: July 28-30, 2011


Topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Networks for Multimedia
* Network architectures and protocols
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Network security and privacy
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel computer architectures
* Power efficient architectures
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks



Submission Guildlines
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IEEE NAS 2011 invites authors to submit original and unpublished
work. The submitted manuscript is not to exceed 10 two-column
numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format. (8.5x11-inch paper,
margins in inches-- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625,
and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt).

All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed
and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and
relevance to the conference topics. The conference
proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press and
also be included in the IEEE digital library.
All accepted papers will be indexed by EI.

Awards
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There will be one award for the best paper in each of the
three tracks (networking, architecture, and storage). The
awards will be chosen by the program committee and will
be awarded to the paper with the highest overall quality in
each of the three categories


Conference Organizers
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Steering Committee

- Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
- Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
- Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Andre Brinkmann,University of Paderborn, Germany

General Co-Chairs
- David Du, University of Minnesota, USA
- He Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China

Program Co-Chairs
- Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Vice-Chairs
Networking
- Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary, USA
- Gaogang Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Architecture
- Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan,USA
- Jian Li, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA
Storage
- Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, USA
- Fang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Publicity Chair
- Qiang Cao, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
- Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
- Yuxin Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Zhaobin Liu, Dalian Maritime University

Registration and Finance Chair
- Qi Jia, Dalian University of Technology, China
- Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA

Program Committee Members
Networking
- Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
- Bo Sheng, UMASS Boston, USA
- Chiu C. Tan, Temple University, USA
- Chuan Yue, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
- Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA
- Fei Li, George Mason University, USA
- Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
- Haodong Wang, Cleveland State University, USA
- Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
- Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA
- Jian-non Cao, The Hong Kong Politechnic University, China
- Jiangyi Hu, Florida State University, USA
- Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
- Kave Salamatian, University of Savioe
- Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia
- Lei Xie, Nanjing University, China
- Li Shen, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
- Liang Hong, WuHan University, China
- Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
- Meikang Qiu, University of Kentucky, USA
- Meng Yu, Virginia Central University, USA
- Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, Nikolaos
- Pan Li, Mississippi State University, USA
- Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Qing Cao, University of Tennessee, USA
- Qixin Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA
- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Shan Lin, Temple University, USA
- Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
- Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
- Wei Zhang, Virginia Central University, USA
- Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
- Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
- Xiaolin Chen, Chuxiong Normal University, China
- Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA
- Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA
- Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA
- Yongning Tang, Illinois State University, USA
- Yu Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
- Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
- Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA,
- Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University, China

Architecture
- BiBo Tu, Institute of Computing Technology, China
- Christophe Bobda,University of Arkansas, USA
- Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Greece
- Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Haixia Wang, Tsinghua University, China
- Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- Meyrem Kirman,Intel Labs Barcelona, Spain
- Michael Huebner,Uni Karlsruhe, Germany
- Mingyu Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, China
- Marco D. Santambrogio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Nikos Hardavellas,Northwestern University, USA
- Oliver Bringmann,FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
- Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA
- Sungjoo Yoo, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
- Tao Wang, Peking University, China
- Wei Huang, IBM Research - Austin, USA
- Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
- ZhiChun Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University, USA

Storage
- Andrew Leung,Data Domain, California, USA
- Andy Wang,Florida State University,USA
- Ahmed Amer,Santa Clara University, California, USA
- Anna Povzner,IBM Almaden, California, USA
- Bo Hong,Pure Storage, California, USA
- Dan Feng,Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
- Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden, California, USA
- Deepavali Bhagwat,Hewlett Packard, USA
- Dilma Da Silva,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Frank Zhigang Wang,University of Kent, UK
- Ismail Ari,Ozyegin University, Turkey
- Jiwu Shu,Thsinghua University, China
- John Bent,Los Alamos National Lab, USA
- Julio Lopez,Parallel Data Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kostas Magoutis,Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH),Greece
- Kevin Greenan,Data Domain, California, USA
- Laurence T. Yang,St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Ming Zhang,EMC, USA
- Ron Oldfield,Sandia National Labs, New Mexico, USA
- Tim Kaldewey,IBM Almaden, USA
- Xiao Qin,Auburn University, USA
- Yifeng Zhu,University of Maine, Orono, USA
- Yong Chen,Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
- Yu Hua,Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
- Zhiyong Xu,Suffolk University, USA