Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR)
http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/anchor

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.

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