Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   * System design for future network architectures
   * Router and switch architectures
   * High-speed networking algorithms and mechanisms
   * Software Defined Networking systems
   * Network Functions Virtualization architectures
   * Virtualized infrastructure architectures and systems
   * Architectures for data centers
   * Converged router, server, and storage platforms
   * Host-network interface issues
   * Techniques and systems for large-scale data analysis
   * Wireless network hardware and related software, including software radios
   * Information-centric network architectures, platforms, and mechanisms
   * Network security architectures and security anchor/enhancement devices
   * Network measurement techniques, architectures, and devices
   * Scalable programming and application frameworks
   * 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., multicore, NPU, FPGA, TCAM, custom ASIC
   * Network-on-Chip architectures and applications
   * Memory architectures and technologies for packet, state and table storage.