Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies of:

• Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms

• Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks, IoT applications

• Computer architectures, multi-core processors, memory systems and storage networks

• Operating systems, file systems and databases

• Data processing

• Virtualization, data centers, distributed and cloud computing

• Mobile and personal computing systems

• Energy-efficient computing systems

• Real-time and fault-tolerant systems

• Security and privacy of computing and networked systems

• Software systems and enterprise applications

• Social networks, multimedia systems, service-oriented architectures and Web services

• Large-scale operational systems

• Cyber-physical systems, including the smart grid

Methodologies, formalisms, metrics, solution techniques and algorithms for:

• Analytical modeling techniques and model validation

• Workload characterization and benchmarking

• Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis

• Sustainability analysis and power management

• System measurement, performance monitoring and forecasting

• Anomaly detection, problem diagnosis and troubleshooting

• Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling

• Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing

• Experimental design, statistical analysis, simulation

• Game theory, network economics, and platform design

• Machine learning, big data, and signal processing