The 8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2013) will be held from July 10 − 12, 2013 at Xi'an, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies.

NAS has been successfully held in Xiamen in 2012 (NAS'12), Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).

Topics (Topics of interest include but are not limited to the list as follow)
Network security and privacy
Virtual and overlay networks
Network applications and services
Ad hoc and sensor networks
Networks and protocols
Network architectures
Processor architectures
Cache and memory systems
Parallel and multi-core systems
Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
Network information theory & network coding
Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
Storage management
Storage performance and scalability
File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
Energy-aware storage
Architecture and applications of solid state disks
Cloud Storage
Storage Virtualization
HW/SW tradeoffs