Special Issue on the 2023 International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS 2023)

The International Symposium on networks-on-chip (NOCS) serves as the premier interdisciplinary meeting for research on NoC architecture, implementation, analysis, optimization, and verification, encompassing various aspects of NoCs for embedded high-performance computing systems, un-core and system-level NoCs, inter/intrachip, and rack-scale networks. Similar to previous years, this event has been held in conjunction with the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). This year, NOCS was held in Hamburg, Germany, on 21–22 September 2023, marking its return to a fully in-person conference after virtual and hybrid editions during the pandemic.