<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><meta charset="utf-8"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><div>Dear Colleague:</div><div><br></div><div>This is to inform you that the 6th IEEE International Conference</div><div>on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2011) has extended</div><div>the paper submission deadline to April 15th, 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>A full CFP can be found below.</div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>IEEE NAS 2011</div><div>Dates: July 28-30</div><div>Dalian, Liaoning, China</div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>********************************************************************</div><div>The 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture,</div><div>and Storage (NAS 2011)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nas-conference.org/">http://www.nas-conference.org/</a></div><div>*********************************************************************</div><div>Overview</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>The objective of IEEE NAS 2011 is to serve as an international</div><div>forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from</div><div>academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on</div><div>networking, high-performance computer architecture, and</div><div>parallel and distributed data storage technologies.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011 (Firm Deadline)</div><div>Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2011</div><div>Camera-ready Paper: June 10, 2011</div><div>Conference: July 28-30, 2011</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Topics</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div>* Network architectures and protocols</div><div>* Virtual and overlay networks</div><div>* Network applications and services</div><div>* Ad hoc and sensor networks</div><div>* Network security and privacy</div><div>* Networks for Multimedia</div><div>* Processor architectures</div><div>* Cache and memory systems</div><div>* Parallel computer architectures</div><div>* Power efficient architectures</div><div>* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs</div><div>* Storage management</div><div>* Storage performance and scalability</div><div>* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage</div><div>* Energy-aware storage</div><div>* Architecture and applications of solid state disks</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Submission Guildlines</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>NAS 2011 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work.</div><div>Each paper submitted is limited to 10 pages and must be prepared</div><div>in the IEEE camera-ready format. Formatting instructions and LaTeX</div><div>macros can be downloaded from our website. The submission site is</div><div><a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/nas2011">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/nas2011</a>. Only submissions in PDF</div><div>format are accepted and the acceptable file size is limited to 10MB.</div><div>All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE digital library</div><div>and indexed by EI.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Awards</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>There will be one award for the best paper in each of the</div><div>three tracks (networking, architecture, and storage). The</div><div>awards will be chosen by the program committee and will</div><div>be awarded to the paper with the highest overall quality in</div><div>each of the three categories</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Conference Organizers</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Steering Committee</div><div><br></div><div>- Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA</div><div>- Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA</div><div>- Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China</div><div>- Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA</div><div>- Andre Brinkmann,University of Paderborn, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>General Co-Chairs</div><div>- David Du, University of Minnesota, USA</div><div>- He Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Co-Chairs</div><div>- Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div>- Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Vice-Chairs</div><div>Networking</div><div>- Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary, USA</div><div>- Gaogang Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div>Architecture</div><div>- Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan,USA</div><div>- Jian Li, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA</div><div>Storage</div><div>- Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA</div><div>- Fang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chair</div><div>- Qiang Cao, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China</div><div>- Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Local Arrangement Co-Chairs</div><div>- Yuxin Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China</div><div>- Zhaobin Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Registration and Finance Chair</div><div>- Qi Jia, Dalian University of Technology, China</div><div>- Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Web Chair</div><div>- Yuanzheng Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee Members</div><div>Networking</div><div>- Baosheng Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China</div><div>- Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA</div><div>- Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA</div><div>- Chiu C. Tan, Temple University, USA</div><div>- Chuan Yue, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA</div><div>- Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA</div><div>- Fei Li, George Mason University, USA</div><div>- Guangdeng Liao, Intel Lab, USA</div><div>- Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA</div><div>- Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA</div><div>- Haodong Wang, Cleveland State University, USA</div><div>- Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA</div><div>- Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA</div><div>- Jian-non Cao, The Hong Kong Politechnic University, China</div><div>- Jiangyi Hu, Florida State University, USA</div><div>- Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China</div><div>- Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China</div><div>- Kave Salamatian, University of Savioe, France</div><div>- Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA</div><div>- Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia</div><div>- Lei Xie, Nanjing University, China</div><div>- Li Shen, Indiana University, USA</div><div>- Liang Hong, WuHan University, China</div><div>- Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA</div><div>- Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA</div><div>- Meikang Qiu, University of Kentucky, USA</div><div>- Meng Yu, Virginia Central University, USA</div><div>- Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</div><div>- Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France</div><div>- Pan Li, Mississippi State University, USA</div><div>- Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div>- Qing Cao, University of Tennessee, USA</div><div>- Qixin Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China</div><div>- Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA</div><div>- Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA</div><div>- Shan Lin, Temple University, USA</div><div>- Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA</div><div>- Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA</div><div>- Wei Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA</div><div>- Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China</div><div>- Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA</div><div>- Xiaolin Chen, Chuxiong Normal University, China</div><div>- Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA</div><div>- Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA</div><div>- Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA</div><div>- Yongning Tang, Illinois State University, USA</div><div>- Yu Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore</div><div>- Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA</div><div>- Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA,</div><div>- Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Architecture</div><div>- BiBo Tu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div>- Christophe Bobda, University of Arkansas, USA</div><div>- Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Greece</div><div>- Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA</div><div>- Haixia Wang, Tsinghua University, China</div><div>- Koji Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan</div><div>- Marco D. Santambrogio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA</div><div>- Meyrem Kirman, Intel Labs Barcelona, Spain</div><div>- Michael Huebner, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany</div><div>- Mingyu Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, China</div><div>- Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany</div><div>- Naehyuck Chang, Soul National University, Korea</div><div>- Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University, USA</div><div>- Oliver Bringmann, FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany</div><div>- Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA</div><div>- Shih-Hao Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</div><div>- Sungjoo Yoo, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea</div><div>- Tao Wang, Peking University, China</div><div>- Wei Huang, IBM Research - Austin, USA</div><div>- Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA</div><div>- ZhiChun Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</div><div>- Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Storage</div><div>- Andrew Leung, Data Domain, California, USA</div><div>- Andreas Dilger, Whamcloud, USA</div><div>- Andy Wang, Florida State University,USA</div><div>- Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University, California, USA</div><div>- Anna Povzner, IBM Almaden, California, USA</div><div>- Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA</div><div>- Bo Hong, Pure Storage, California, USA</div><div>- Dan Feng, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China</div><div>- Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden, California, USA</div><div>- Deepavali Bhagwat, Hewlett Packard, USA</div><div>- Dilma Da Silva,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA</div><div>- Frank Zhigang Wang,University of Kent, UK</div><div>- Ismail Ari, Ozyegin University, Turkey</div><div>- Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University, China</div><div>- John Bent, Los Alamos National Lab, USA</div><div>- Julio Lopez, Parallel Data Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div>- Kevin Greenan, Data Domain, California, USA</div><div>- Kostas Magoutis, FORTH-ICS,Greece</div><div>- Laurence T. Yang,St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</div><div>- Ming Zhang, EMC, USA</div><div>- Ron Oldfield,Sandia National Labs, New Mexico, USA</div><div>- Tim Kaldewey,IBM Almaden, USA</div><div>- Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA</div><div>- Yifeng Zhu,University of Maine, Orono, USA</div><div>- Yong Chen,Texas Tech University, Texas, USA</div><div>- Yu Hua, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China</div><div>- Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA</div><div><br></div></span></font></body></html>