DSTA 2014 - Data Storage Technology and Applications Symposium

Call for Papers
Data Storage Technology and Applications Symposium, ICNC 2014
Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 3 ? Feb. 6, 2014
http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014/
Symposium Co-chairs
Haitao (Tony) Xia, LSI Corporation, USA
Email: haitao.xia-AT-lsi.com
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburg, USA
Email: yic52-AT-pitt.edu
Scope
The Data Storage Technology and Applications Symposium will focus on topics related to all aspects of physical
layer (PHY) of data storage related systems, signal processing and coding for data storage, cost and performance
analysis for data centers, and architecture and data security for large scale storage systems. Of special interest are
papers reporting on novel and practical solutions to signal processing and coding design in data storage systems,
storage architecture/interface and their applications such as cloud computing, etc. To ensure complete coverage of
the advances in data storage technologies for current and future systems, the Data Storage Technology and
Applications Symposium presents original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas:
? Physical layer design/architecture of interface of data storage systems and high speed serial link
communication systems such as SAS, SATA and PCI express, serdes, etc.
? Data storage system and architectures for cloud computing
? Cost versus performance, power issues for data storage centers
? Architectures for disk arrays.
? Emerging technologies on data storage systems such as NAND flash, DRAM, phase change memory, etc.
? Coding and data security for storage systems.
? Signal processing and coding techniques for magnetic recording data storage systems includes timing
recovery, equalization, detection and error-correction codes.
? System-on-chip (SOC) architecture and optimization.
? Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video.
? Channel characterization, including modeling of media noise and nonlinearity.
? Noise modeling and analysis for data storage systems.
? Measurement, testing, and performance optimization.
? New concepts for data storage systems.
? Big data, cloud storage and mobile storage systems and applications.
Submission Guidelines
Please follow the author instructions at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014/author.htm
Direct paper submission weblink of this symposium can be found at http://www.conf-icnc.org/2014/cfp.htm
Short biography of co-chairs
Haitao (Tony) Xia
Dr. Haitao (Tony) Xia is Senior Manager of R&D at LSI Corporation, leading the research and development of
advanced read channel architectures for data storage systems. Dr. Xia is the current Chairman of IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee and President of Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS). Before his work at
LSI, Dr. Xia worked at Linked-A-Media Devices on signal processing and coding in the area of magnetic recording
channels and non-volatile memories. Dr. Xia has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed
journals/conferences, and has more than 50 US patent issued/submitted to his name. Dr. Xia is an IEEE Senior
Member and Member of Sigma Xi. He received the Ph. D degree from University of Oklahoma in 2004, and B.S.
and M.S. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Xia has served as
Symposium Chair and Technical Committee Member in many IEEE international conferences such as IEEE
ICC2007, IEEE ICC2009, IEEE Globecom2010, etc.
Yiran Chen
Yiran Chen received B.S and M.S. (both with honor) from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
After a few years in EDA and data storage industries, he joined University of Pittsburgh in 2010 where he is
currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests include
low-power design, emerging technologies and embedded system. Dr. Chen has published one book, a few book
chapters, and more than 130 technical publications in refereed journals and conferences. He has also been granted 70
US patents with other 21 pending applications. He is the AE of TCAD and JETC and has played various roles in the
technical and organization committees of many international conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASPDAC, ISLPED, FPT, ISCAS, CODES+ISSS, ICONIP, RTCAS, etc. His work received “The hot 100 products of
2006” from EDN, the finalist of "Prestigious 2007 DesignVision Awards” from International Engineering
Consortium (IEC) and “PrimeTimeVX - EDN 100 Hot Products Distinction” from Synopsys Inc. He received two
best paper awards from ISQED 2008 and ISLPED 2010, respectively, and six times best paper nominations from
ISQED, DATE, ASP-DAC, GLSVLSI etc. His student, Wujie Wen, received 49th DAC A. Richard Newton
Scholarship. He is the recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2013.