Impact Factor News

IET Communications' Impact Factor increased by almost 30% to 0.963 for 2011.

Scope

IET Communications covers the fundamental and generic research for a better understanding of communication technologies to harness the signals for better performing communication systems using various wired and/or wireless media. This Journal is particularly interested in research papers reporting novel solutions to the dominating problems of noise, interference, timing and errors for reduction systems deficiencies such as wasting scarce resources such as spectra, energy and bandwidth. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Coding and Communication Theory
• Modulation and Signal Design
• Wired, Wireless and Optical Communication
• Communication System

Forthcoming Special Issues

• Cognitive Communications – Call for Papers
• Evolution of Air-Link Technologies for Futuristic Wireless Communications – Call for Papers
• Ultra-Wideband System Design, Signals, and Coding – Call for Papers
• Pervasive Healthcare Services using Intelligent Environments - Call for Papers
• Peer-to-Peer Systems and Online Social Networking - Call for Papers
• Photonic and Free Space Optics Networks - Call for Papers
• Energy Aware Wireless Network Protocols - Call for Papers

Published Special Issues

• Green technologies for wireless communications and mobile computing - Vol.5, No.18, 16th December 2011
• Smart Space Technological Developments - Vol.5, No.17, 25th November 2011
• Distributed Intelligence and Data Fusion for Sensor Systems - Vol.5, No.12, 12th August 2011

Author and Reader Benefits

• Worldwide readership and database coverage (including ISI and Inspec)
• Rapid times to decision (typically less than 16 weeks)
• No page charges to authors
• 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 issues from 2007 onwards as well as all issues of IEE Proceedings Communications from 1994-2006 as part of their current online subscription. Papers published prior to 1994 can be accessed online through an additional subscription to the IET Digital Library Journals Archive.