Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Future network architectures

• High-speed networking algorithms and mechanisms

• SDN/NFV architectures and systems

• Virtualized network infrastructure architectures and systems

• Architectures for cloud data center networks

• Converged router, server, and storage platforms

• Container networking and micro-segmentation issues

• Router/switch and middle box architectures

• Host-network interface issues

• Bigdata analysis and data-driven network diagnosis and security

• Wireless network, including 5G and IoT issues

• Powerless communication and network architecture

• Reconfigurable architectures for packets, flow and table maintenance

• Information-centric network architectures, platforms, and mechanisms

• Network security techniques, architectures, and devices

• Network measurement techniques, architectures, and devices

• High-performance and high-function network processing platforms

• Power- and size-optimized computer and communications platforms

• Hardware accelerators and offload engines

• Single-chip networking elements, e.g. ASIC, FPGA, TCAM, NPU, and Network-on-Chip

• Memory architectures and technologies for packet, state and table storage.