The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is an archival, bimonthly
journal co-sponsored by the IEEE
Communications Society, the IEEE
Computer Society, and the ACM with
its Special Interest Group on Data
Communications (SIGCOMM).
The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is committed to the timely
publication of high-quality papers that advance the state of the art in
communication network research. The journal publishes theoretical research
presenting new techniques, concepts, or analyses and applied contributions
reporting on experiences and experiments with actual systems.
- High level objective: to publish high-quality original research
results derived from theoretical or experimental exploration of the area of
communication/computer networking, covering all sorts of information transport
networks over all sorts of physical layer technologies, both wireline (all
kinds of guided media: e.g., copper, optical) and wireless (e.g.,
radio-frequency, acoustic, underwater, infra-red), or hybrids of these. The
journal welcomes applied contributions reporting on novel experiences and
experiments with actual systems.
- Network types: Global telecom to interplanetary, high-speed intra-system interconnection networks, backbone and access telecom networks, logical and overlay networks, cellular mobile telecom networks, wireless local area networks, ad hoc and mesh wireless networks, intervehicular networks, delay/disruption-tolerant networks, etc.
- Networking aspects: architecture and design (including algorithms
for network resource allocation, traffic engineering, modeling, and performance
analysis), protocols (including formal methods for the verification, testing,
and conversion of communication protocols), network software (including
software architecture and applications such as directory services, call
processing, and signaling), network hardware (including novel hardware
architectures, network devices, and their usage), operations and management
(including network planning, evolution, reliability, and survivability),
measurements (including insights gained from operational networks and network
tomography), and security (including network intrusion detection and control of
the spread of malicious software).
- Application domains: telephony (circuit and packet, voice and
video), all applications traditionally associated with world-wide packet
networks (file transfer, email, World Wide Web, streaming video, etc.), storage
and data centers, peer-to-peer file sharing, online social networks,
cyber-physical systems (including distributed sensing, function computation
over networks, and control over networks), etc.
- Interfaces with networks in other domains: including information
dissemination and related distributed systems aspects of social networks and
biologically or nature-inspired techniques for communication networks,
etc.
Please note that the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking does not publish
survey or tutorial manuscripts. Manuscripts whose primary contribution is to
review and classify the state of the art should instead be directed to one of
the many venues dedicated to such topics, e.g., the IEEE Communications Surveys and
Tutorials.
Papers accepted but not yet published may be found on ToN's IEEE Xplore page.
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