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Publication Frequency Increase for 2010

Readers will be able to access new content even faster from 2010 – the journal is increasing 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 - Call for Papers
• Video Communications over Wireless Networks - Call for Papers - Deadline extended until 1st July
• WiMax Integrated Communications - Call for Papers - Deadline extended until 16th March
• Satellite Systems, Applications and Networking - Call for Papers - Deadline extended until 17th April

Upcoming Conferences

The IET will be exhibiting at the following Conferences in the Communications field:

• IEEE Telsiks – Serbia – October 2009

Featured Paper

Diversity analysis of smart relaying over Nakagami and Hoyt generalised fading channels, Vol.3, No.11, p.1778–1789

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

IET Communications was previously published as IEE Proceedings Communications. Following the merger on March 31st 2006 between the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and the IIE (The Institution of Incorporated Engineers) to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the IEE Proceedings suite of journals changed name at the beginning of 2007 to reflect the fact that they were now published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. IET Communications starts from Volume 1, Issue 1 from February 2007 onwards. All other benefits of publishing in the journal, including our worldwide readership and database coverage, remain unchanged.

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