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4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage
July 9-11, 2009
Zhang Jia Jie, China
http://www.eece.maine.edu/nas


Important Dates
Full paper submission: February 9, 2009 (2359 PST)
Acceptance notification: April 10, 2009
Camera ready due: May 8, 2009
Conference: July 9-11, 2009

The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and
Storage (NAS 2009) is to be held on July 9-11, 2009 in Zhang Jia Jie, China.
It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research
on networking (wired and wireless), high-performance computer architecture,
and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2009 will
expose participants to the most recent developments in these
interdisciplinary areas. NAS has been successfully hold in Chongqing in
2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007(NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006(NAS'06).

Zhang Jia Jie, located in the northwest of Hunan province, covers a total
area of 9,563 square kilometers with 76% mountainous area. This famous
tourist city has the China's first national forest park, and the World
Natural Heritage site Wulingyuan Scenic Area. Zhang Jia Jie has been
accredited the title of the World Geological Park and honored as Number
One Miraculous Mountain in the world and Original Manuscript of Chinese
Landscape Painting.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Ad hoc mobile networks
* Mobility models and systems
* Network applications and services
* Network architectures and management
* Optical networks
* Peer-to-peer systems
* Resource allocation and management
* Routing protocols,
* Security, trust, and privacy
* Self-organizing networks
* Sensor networks
* Virtual & overlay networks
* Web services
* Network protocols
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel computer architectures
* Evaluation of storage architectures
* Parallel I/O architectures
* Storage management software
* Power-efficient architectures and techniques
* High-availability architectures
* High-performance I/O systems
* Reconfigurable architectures
* Interconnect and network interface architectures
* Innovative hardware/software trade-offs
* Impact of compilers on architecture
* Performance evaluation
* Storage manageability, reliability, availability, and security
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, block-level storage
* Storage networking
* Energy aware storage
* Solid state drive (SSD)

NAS 2009 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 ).
Format instructions are available for: LaTeX, Word document, PDF files.
Margin and placement guides are available in: Word, PDF and
postscript files.

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 through EI, CompendexISI Thomson's
Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and ISTP/ISI Proceedings.


Organizing and Program Committee

Steering Committee
* Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
* Laxmi Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside, USA
* Chita Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA
* Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
* Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
* Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
* Zhiwei Xu, Chinese Academy of Science, China
* Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA

General Co-Chairs
* Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China
* Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University, USA

Program Co-Chairs
* Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA
* Liang Fang, National Lab of Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
* Weiwu Hu, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Local Arrangements Chair
* Fang Liu, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

Publicity and Industry Relations Co-Chairs
* Liang Fang, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
* Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Publication Chair
* Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Financial Co-Chairs
* Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
* Li Shen, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

Program Vice-Chairs and Program Committee Members

Networking
Program Vice Chairs
* Xukai Zou, Purdue University at IUPUI, USA
* Xueming Li, Chongqing University, China

Program Committee Member
* Brian King, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
* Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
* Guojun Wang, Central South University, China
* Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA
* Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA
* Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
* Keping Long, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,
* China
* Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
* Kui (Quinn) Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
* Li Bai, Temple University, USA
* Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
* Qinghan Xiao, Defense Research and Development, Canada
* Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA
* Shigang Chen, University of Florida, USA
* Sibabrata Ray, Google, USA
* Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, USA
* Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA
* Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
* Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA
* Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA
* Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
* Yong Wang, Calient Networks, USA
* Junzhou Luo, South East University, China


Architecture
Program Vice Chairs
* Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Mingyu Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Program Committee Member
* Adam Oliner, Stanford University, USA
* Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University, USA
* Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech University, USA
* Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA
* George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
* Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
* Hong An, University of Science and Technology of China
* Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
* Jiang Li, IBM, USA
* Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University, Thailand
* Li Ou, Dell, USA
* Limin Xiao, Beihang University, China
* Longbing Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Patrick G. Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA
* Peiheng Zhang, National Research Center for Intelligent
Computing System, China
* Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA
* Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
* Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, USA
* Xiaobing Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA


Storage

Program Vice Chairs
* Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Andre Brinkman, University of Paderborn, Germany

Program Committee Member
* Alex K. Jones, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Andy Wang, Florida State University, USA
* Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
* Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
* Christine Morin, Inria, France
* Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Green Kevin, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
* Jason Peng, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
* Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA
* John Chandy, University of Conneticut, USA
* Kevin Green, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
* Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo, CA
* Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
* Maria Perez, Polytech University of Madrid,Spain
* Paul Nowoczynski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA
* Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany
* Peter Varman, Rice University, USA
* Robert D. Russel, University of New Hamshire, USA
* Roger Chamberlain, Washington University in Saint Loius, USA
* Sangyeun Cho, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
* Toni Cortes ,Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
* Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
* Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, USA