NOCS 2022 ========= 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip October 7 - 14, 2022, Hybrid Conference (Shanghai, China) (Co-located with Embedded Systems Week 2022) https://nocs2022.github.io/ ## CALL FOR PAPERS The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip, package-scale, chip-to-chip, and datacenter rack-scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on network-on-chip (NoC) innovations and applications from inter-related research communities, including discrete optimization and algorithms, 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) - Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication - NoC reliability issues and solutions - Security issues and solutions in NoC architectures - Power/thermal issues at NoC un-core and system-level - Network interface issues and solutions - Signaling and circuit design for NoC links and routers ### Communication Analysis, Optimization, and Verification - NoC performance analysis and Quality of Service - Modeling, simulation, and synthesis of NoC - Verification, debug and test of NoC - NoC design and simulation methodologies and tools - Benchmarks, experiences on NoC-based hardware - Communication-efficient algorithms - Communication workload characterization & evaluation ### Emerging and Novel NoC Technologies - Optical, wireless, CNT, and other emerging technologies - NoC for 2.5D and 3D packages - Package-specific NoC design - Network coding and compression solutions - Approximate computing for NoC and NoC-based systems ### NoC for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems - NoC design for Deep Learning - Mapping of emerging applications and systems onto NoC - NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design - NoC for FPGA, structured ASIC, CMP and MPSoC - NoC designs for heterogeneous systems - NoC for CPU-GPU and data-center-on-a-chip (DCoC) - Scalable modeling of NoC - Machine learning for NoC and NoC-based Systems ### NoC at the Un-Core and System-level - Design of memory subsystem (un-core) including memory controllers, caches, cache coherence protocols in NoC - NoC for new memory/storage technologies - NoC support for processing-in-memory - OS support for NoC - Programming models for NoCs - Interactions between large-scale systems (datacenter, edge and fog computing) and NoC-based building blocks ### Inter/Intra-Chip and Rack-Scale Network - Unified inter/intra-chip networks - Hybrid chip-scale and datacenter rack-scale networks - All aspects of inter-chip and rack-scale network design -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **New in NOCS 2022 =>** Journal-Integrated Publication Model: All accepted papers will be published in an IEEE Design & Test special issue. Please find the detailed submission instructions for paper submission, special session, and demo proposals at the submission webpage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth) Abstract registration: April 29, 2022 Full-paper submission: May 6, 2022 First notification and reviews: July 8, 2022 Submission of revised papers: July 29, 2022 Final notification of acceptance: August 19, 2022
NOCS 2022 Call for Papers