PODC solicits original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application and of distributed systems and networks, in particular conceptual innovative results are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

algorithms for distributed systems and their complexity
cluster, cloud, grid and high-performance computing
communication networks: protocols, architectures, services, applications
concurrent programming, synchronization, shared and transactional memory
cryptographic protocols and system security
distributed operating systems, databases and programming languages
dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms
formal methods, semantics and verification of concurrent systems
fault tolerance, reliability, availability of distributed systems
game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
information theory, codes and reliable communication
Internet applications, social networks and complex networks
multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
nanonetworks and biological distributed algorithms
quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
self-stabilizing, self-organizing and autonomic systems
sensor, mobile, ad-hoc, robot and peer-to-peer networks