NOCS 2022
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16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip  
October 13-14, 2022, Virtual Conference  
(Held in conjunction 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

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**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.

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## Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth)
Abstract registration: May 20, 2022 (EXTENDED)  
Full-paper submission: May 20, 2022 (EXTENDED)  
First notification and reviews: July 8, 2022  
Submission of revised papers: July 29, 2022  
Final notification of acceptance: August 19, 2022  

## Organizing Committee

### General Chairs
Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)  
Joshua San Miguel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

### Technical Program Chairs
Miquel Moreto (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)  
Mahdi Nikdast (Colorado State University)  

### Special Sessions Chair
Masoumeh (Azin) Ebrahimi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)  

### Publicity Chairs
Jieming Yin (Lehigh University)  
Poona Bahrebar (Ghent University)  
Trevor Carlson (National University of Singapore)  

### Web Chair
Salvatore Monteleone (Niccolò Cusano University)  

### Steering Committee Chair
Radu Marculescu (University of Texas, Austin)