Message from the program co-chairs

Welcome to the Ninth Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2013). It is our pleasure to present an excellent conference program for the meeting consisting of eighteen technical papers. The papers cover a wide range of networking disciplines including packet classification, fast packet processing, data center networking, and network security. There is also a poster session including 10 posters. We are also pleased to include a keynote address and a panel by leading researchers in the community.