12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip 
October 4 – 5, 2018, Torino, Italy (Co-located with Embedded Systems Week 2018)
www.nocs2018.conf.kth.se

The International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip, package-scale, and rack-scale communication technology, architecture, design methods, applications and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations and applications from inter-related research communities, including discrete optimization and algorithms, computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design automation.

Keynote
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"Many-Core SoC in Nanoscale CMOS: Challenges & Opportunities"
by Vivek De (Intel)

"NoCs: a short history of success and a long future" 
by Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL)

Advance Program
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*** Thursday October 4th, 2018 ***

9:00-9:10	Opening Ceremony

9:10-10:10	Keynote I "Many-Core SoC in Nanoscale CMOS: Challenges & Opportunities"
Vivek De (Intel Corporation)

10:30-12:35	Regular Paper Session I: Interconnected Multiprocessor
"NoC-Based Support of Heterogeneous Cache-Coherence Models for Accelerators"
Davide Giri, Paolo Mantovani and Luca Carloni (Columbia University)

"Exploration of Memory and Cluster Modes in Directory-Based Many-Core CMPs"
Subodha Charles (University of Florida), Chetan Arvind Patil (Arizona State University), Umit Ogras (Arizona State University) and Prabhat Mishra (University of Florida)

"Accurate Congestion Control for RDMA Transfers" 
Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Evangelos Mageiropoulos, Nikolaos Chrysos, Giannis Vardas, Leandros Tzanakis and Manolis Katevenis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas)

"Testing WiNoC-Enabled Multicore Chips with BIST for Wireless Interconnects"
Abhishek Vashist, Amlan Ganguly and Mark Indovina (Rochester Institute of Technology)

"Towards Energy-efficient High-throughput Photonic NoCs for 2.5D Integrated Systems: A Case for AWGRs" 
Sebastian Werner, Pouya Fotouhi, Roberto Proietti, Xiao Xian and S.J. Ben Yoo (University of California, Davis)

14:00-16:05	Regular Paper Session II: Emerging NoC Architecture and Security
"AxNoC: Low-power Approximate Network-on-Chips using Critical-Path Isolation" 
Akram Ben Ahmed (Keio University), Daichi Fujiki (University of Michigan), Hiroki Matsutani (Keio University), Michihiro Koibuchi (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) and Hideharo Amano (Keio University)

"DAPPER: Data Aware Approximate NoC for GPGPU architectures"
Venkata Yaswanth Raparti and Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University)

"FreewayNoC: A DDR NoC with Pipeline Bypassing" 
Ahsen Ejaz (Chalmers University of Technology), Vassilios Papaefstathiou (Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas) and Ioannis Sourdis (Chalmers University of Technology)

"Brownian Bubble Router: Enabling Deadlock Freedom via Guaranteed Forward Progress" 
Mayank Parasar, Ankit Sinha and Tushar Krishna (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Abetting Planned Obsolescence by Aging 3D Networks-on-Chip"
Sourav Das (Washington State University), Kanad Basu (New York University), Jana Doppa (Washington State University), Partha Pratim Pande (Washington State University), Ramesh Karri (New York University) and Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Duke University)

16:30-17:45	Special Session I: Securing Networks-on-Chip: A Cross-Technology Perspective
"Securing NoCs against Timing Attacks with Non-Interference Based Adaptive Routing" 
Speaker: Travis Boraten (Ohio University)

"Hacking Light: Enabling Security in Photonic NoC Architectures"
Speaker: Sudeep Pasricha (Colorado State University)

"Architecting a Secure Wireless Network-on-Chip" 
Speaker: Brian Lebiednik (Georgia Institute of Technology)

17:45-18:00	Poster Session
"A Learning-Based Thermal-Sensitive Routing for Power Optimization of Optical NoCs"
Yaoyao Ye, Zhe Zhang, Renjie Yao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Weichen Liu (Nanyang Technological University)

"Approximate Communication for Energy Efficient Networks on Chip"
Maurizio Palesi, Davide Patti, Salvatore Monteleone, Giuseppe Ascia (University of Catania), John Jose (IIT Guwahatiand) Vincenzo Catania (University of Catania)

"Improving the Efficiency of Router Bypass"
Iván Pérez, Enrique Vallejo and Ramón Beivide (University of Cantabria)

"An Operating System Service for Remote Memory Accesses in Low-Power NoC-Based Manycores"
Pedro Henrique Penna (Université Grenoble Alpes), Matheus Souza (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Emmanuel Podestá Junior, Bruno Marques do Nascimento, Márcio Castro (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)), François Broquedis (Université Grenoble Alpes), Henrique Freitas (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais) and Jean-François Méhaut (Université Grenoble Alpes)

19:00 ~	Banquet	Ristorante Circolo dei Lettori



*** Friday October 5th, 2018 ***

9:00-10:00	Keynote II
"NoCs: a short history of success and a long future" 
Giovanni De Micheli (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) 

10:30-11:45	Regular Paper Session III: Cutting-Edge Network-on-Chip
"A Low-overhead Multicast Bufferless Router with Reconfigurable Banyan Network"
Chaochao Feng (National University of Defense Technology Changsha), Zhuofan Liao (Changsha University of Science & Technology), Zhenyu Zhao (National University of Defense Technology Changsha) and Xiaowei He (National University of Defense Technology Changsha)

"Critical Packet Prioritisation by Slack-Aware Re-routing in On-Chip Networks"
Abhijit Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Sarath Babu (Government Engineering College, Idukki), John Jose (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Sangeetha Jose (Government Engineering College, Idukki) and Maurizio Palesi
(University of Catania)

"A Diversity Scheme to Enhance the Reliability of Wireless NoC in Multi-Path Channel Environment" 
Joel Ortiz Sosa (University of Rennes), Olivier Sentieys (University of Rennes) and Christian Roland (Université Bretagne Sud)

11:45-12:35	Tutorial: Approximate Computing for Networks on Chip
Part I: "Approximate Arithmetic Circuits" 
Speaker: Dr. Jie Han (University of Alberta)

Part II: "Approximate Networks on Chip"
Speaker: Dr. Eun Jung (EJ) Kim (Texas A&M University)

14:00~15:15	Industrial Session
"Challenges and Opportunities for Edge Cloud architectures" 
Francesc Guim (Intel Corporation)

"Identifying the gaps between academic research and physical realization of NoCs"
Zhiguo Ge (Huawei International Pte Ltd.)

"Co-Design and Abstraction of a Network-on-Chip Using Deterministic Network Calculus" 
Benoît Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray S.A.)

15:15-16:05	Special Session II: Networks Meet Network: Shaping the On-chip Network for Complex Networks
"Exploiting Dark Cores for Performance Optimization via Patterning for Many-core Chips in the Dark Silicon Era"
Speaker: Amit Kumar Singh (University of Essex)

"Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip for 3D Neural Network Accelerators"
Speaker: Masoud Daneshtalab (Mälardalen University)

16:30-17:45	Special Session III: Realistic Wireless Channel Modelling for Parallel Applications on NoC-based MPSoC
"Accurate Channel Models for Realistic Design Space Exploration of Future Wireless NoCs"
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Diguet (Lab-STICC)

"Channel Characterization for Chip-scale Wireless Communications within Computing Packages"
Speaker: Sergi Abadal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

"On-Chip Wireless Channel Propagation: Impact of Antenna Directionality and Placement on Channel"
Speaker: Sri Harsha Gade (IIIT Delhi)

17:45-18:00	Closing Remark with Best Paper Announcement

Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
  Zhonghai Lu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  Sriram Vangal (Intel Corporation)

Technical Program Chairs
  Jiang Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  Paul Bogdan (University of Southern California)

Special Session/Tutorial Chairs
  Maurizio Palesi (University of Catania)
  Amlan Ganguly (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Web Chair
  Akram Ben Ahmed (Keio University)

Publicity Chairs
  Edoardo Fusella (University of Naples Federico II)  
  Tushar Krishna (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Chun-Yi Lee (National Tsing Hua University) 

Publication Chair
  Vassos Soteriou (Cyprus University of Technology)
  
Local Arrangements Chair
  Mario Casu (Politecnico di Torino)

Finance Chair
  Turbo Majumder (Intel Corporation) 

Industry Chair
  Michael Kishinevsky (Intel Corporation)

Steering Committee Chair
  Radu Marculescu (Carnegie Mellon University)