2014 International Workshop on the Design and Performance of Networks on Chip (DPNoC 2014)

August 17-20, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in conjunction w ith the The 9t h Int ernat io nal Co nference o n Fut ure Net wo rks and Co mmunicat io ns (FNC 2014) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The advance in VLSI technology has led to the emergence of Systems on Chips (SoC), w here a large number of intellectual property cores are integrated onto a single chip. Systems on chip are of high computing performance and how components communicate is the key issue in these systems. The bus-based approach used in traditional systems represents a bandw idth bottleneck in SoC in addition to the non-scalability problem. Therefore light w eight netw orks, know n as Netw ork on Chip (NoC), have emerged. NoCs as a promising alternative to the bus-based approach. They have their roots form data communication netw orks and inherit all issues faced in data communication netw orks w ith an extra challenge w hich is space limitation. As a result, new challenges and issues on the design and implementation of these netw orks have attracted the attention of several researchers.

The w orkshop on the Design and Performance of Netw orks on Chip (DPNoC'2014) w ill represent an international forum for researchers from both academia and industry to expose the latest trends, research findings, and emerging issues in netw orks on chip. The Wo rksho p t o pics include (but are no t limit ed t o ) t he fo llo wing:

Technology constraints on NoCs System and Micro Architecture for NoCs Technology constraints on NoCs System and Micro Architecture for NoCs Flow control Sw itching techniques Routing protocols Netw ork modeling and performance evaluation Schedling and Application mapping onto NoC NOC scalability

Fault tolerance/reliability in NoC Wireless NoC NoCs Applications and Design Multi-Core Systems Floorplanning, Scheduling, and IP Mapping FPGA-based implementation of reconfigurable NoCs Wireless Netw ork-on-Chip

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS : You are invited to submit original and unpublished research w orks on above and other topics related to Mobile Applications. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsew here. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keyw ords and an abstract of no more than 400 w ords.

Publicat io n: All NoC-2014 accepted papers w ill be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.co m and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect .co m ), and w ill be freely available w orldw ide. All papers in Procedia w ill also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ht t p://t ho mso nreut ers.co m/co nference-pro ceedings-cit at io n-index/. The papers w ill contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You w ill be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference w ebsite visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers w ill also be indexed in DBLP (ht t p://dblp.uni-t rier.de/).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: Authors Notification:

30 March 2014

15 May 2014

Final Manuscript Due:

15 June 2014

WORKSHOP Chairs

Dr. Wael M El-Medany Department Of Computer Engineering, University Of Bahrain, Bahrain welmedany@uo b.edu.bh

Dr. Samia Lo ucif Softw are Engineering Department ALHOSN University , UAE samia.lo ucif@ieee.o rg

Int ernat io nal Pro gram Co mmit t ee: Manu Malek, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Tarek El-Ghazaw i, George Washington University, USA Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Nader Anani, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Theo Kanter, Stockholm University, Sw eden Ezendu Ariw a, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Nik Bessis , University of Derby, United Kingdom Afrand Agah, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Massimiliano Laddomada, Texas A&M-Texarkana, USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Gennaro Boggia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Yung-Fa Huang, ChaoYang University of Technology, Taiw an Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece Wei Yu, Tow son University, USA Vamsi Paruchuri, University of Central Arkansas, USA Mohamed A. Azim, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Ali Zoliat, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Aiman El-Maleh, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KSA George Tombras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Salah Bourennane, Ecole Centrale Marseille Fresnel Institute, France Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Maaruf Ali, University of Ha'il, Saudi Arabia Javier Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain Marek Miskow icz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sameera Abar, University College Dublin / IBM-Ireland, Ireland Maurizio Naldi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata, Italy Mukhtar Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University, India Osamu Ono, Meiji University, Japan Salman Khan, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Ahmed Abdelgaw ad , Central Michigan University, USA Aniello Castiglione, Universit di Salerno, Italy Sasan Adibi, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Khalil Sayidmarie, University of Mosul, Iraq S aw omir Kukliski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Manar Mohaisen, Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea Tuan-Anh Le, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam David Naccache, ENS, France Weirong Jiang, Xilinx, USA Hessa Al-Junaid, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Chia-Pang Chen, National Taiw an University, Taiw an Hosam El-Ocla, Lakehead University, Canada Tarek Bejaoui, University of Paris-Sud 11, France Luis Teixeira, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal An He, Qualcomm, USA Samy Ghoniemy, ASU, Egypt Yasser Ismai, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Vinay Kumar, Charles III University of Madrid, Spain Fakhrul Alam, Massey University, New Zealand Mehran Asadi, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Abdelmajid Khelil, European Research Center, Germany Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University, USA Norian Marranghello, So Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil Yasin KABALCI, Nigde, Uiversity,TURKEY

Guidelines t o paper submissio ns: Paper Format The submitted paper must be formatted according to t he guidelines o f Pro cedia Co mput er Science , MS Wo rd Templat e , Lat ex, Elsevier. Paper Length Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. Paper Submission Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the The Online EDAS co nference management syst em in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates). The submission processes w ill be managed by EDAS . If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and passw ord. If this is your first time using EDAS, you w ill need to register for an account by clicking "creat e a new acco unt " button. Upon completion of registration, you w ill get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Publication All accepted papers w ill be scheduled for oral presentations and w ill be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series

(on-line). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the w ork. Jo urnal Special Issue Extended version of all accepted papers in the w orkshop w ill be published as special issue on The Int ernat io nal Jo urnal o f Co mput ing and Digit al Syst ems (IJCDS)