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Publication Frequency Increase for 2010

Readers will be able to access new content even faster from 2010 – the journal has increased its publication frequency from 12 to 18 issues!

Impact Factor News

IET Communications' Impact Factor increases by an impressive 40.7% to 0.533*!

*Figure based on cites in 2008 to IEE Proc. COM (2006) and IET COM (2007)

Scope

IET Communications covers the theory and practice of systems, networks and applications involving line, mobile radio, satellite and optical technologies for telecommunications, and Internet and multimedia communications.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of signal processing, equalisation, coding, error detection and error correction
• Videotelephony, videoconferencing and multimedia communications
• Communications layers, Internet Protocols, Internet telephony and VoIP
• Fading channel, mobile systems, services and applications
• Indoor communications and WLAN; superhighways, Interworking and broadband VPN

News

Editor's Page - The journal's editor-in-chief, Habib Rashvand, offers some advice to potential authors with regard to preparing a paper for submission.

Published Special Issues

• Optical Burst Switching - Volume 3, Number 3
• Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - Volume 3, Number 5
• Simulation, Analysis and Measurement of Broadband Network Traffic - Volume 3, Number 6

Forthcoming Special Issues

• Vehicular Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• Video Communications over Wireless Networks
• WiMax Integrated Communications
• Satellite Systems, Applications and Networking
• Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems – Call for Papers

Featured Paper

Decorrelate-and-forward relaying scheme for multiuser wireless code division multiple access networks, Vol.4, No.4, p.443–451

Author and Reader Benefits

• Increasing from 12 to 18 issues from 2010!
• Worldwide readership and database coverage (including ISI and Inspec)
• Rapid times to decision (typically less than 16 weeks)
• No page charges to authors
• Review/survey papers now freely available on the IET Digital Library for 2 years from publication
• All content also available via the IEEE Xplore digital library

IET Research Journals are available online (in advance of printed publication) via the IET Digital Library. To access the full-text of articles for this journal, you will need a valid subscription, or you can purchase individual articles by clicking the 'Buy This PDF' link on the article abstract page.

Citing this Journal

IET Communications is usually cited by the abbreviated title 'IET Commun.'. Every article in this journal is assigned a Crossref DOI, which is displayed on the article abstract page.

Previous Title

Online subscribers to IET Communications can access all backfile issues from 2007 onwards as well as all issues of IEE Proceedings Communications from 1994-2006 as part of their current online subscription.