International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS)

Focus and Scope

International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS) is a scholarly peer reviewed international scientific journal published three times in a year, focusing on theories, methods, and applications in networks and information security. It provides a challenging forum for researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, managers, and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on networks and information security. The topics covered by this journal include, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Broadband access networks
• Wireless Internet
• Software defined & ultra-wide band radio
• Bluetooth technology
• Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• Wireless Mesh Networks
• IEEE 802.11/802.20/802.22
• Emerging wireless network security issues
• Fault tolerance, dependability, reliability, and localization of fault
• Network coding
• Wireless telemedicine and e-health
• Emerging issues in 3G and 4G networks
• Network architecture
• Multimedia networks
• Cognitive Radio Systems
• Cooperative wireless communications
• Management, monitoring, and diagnosis of networks
• Biologically inspired communication
• Cross-layer optimization and cross-functionality designs
• Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination
• Networks and wireless networks security issues

Section Policies

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts will be subject to a well established, fair, unbiased peer review and refereeing procedure, and are considered on the basis of their significance, novelty and usefulness to the Journals readership. The review output will be either accept or reject. A paper once rejected will not be considered again for review. The review process may take approximately two months to be completed. For accepted paper, should authors be requested by the editor to revise the text and minor changes, the revised version should be submitted within 1 month.

Publication Frequency

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

S. Khan
Institute of Information Technology,
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan

Managing Editor

Z. Iqbal
Institute of Information Technology,
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan

Area Editors

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM))

Susana Sargento (University of Porto, Portugal)

Rastislav Roka (Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia)

Lei Shu (School of Information Science and Technology,Osaka University, Japan)

Shensheng Tang (Missouri Western State University, United States)

Chi-Hua Chen (Institute of Information Management, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Editorial Board Members

• Xiaolong Jin (School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK)
• Velmurugan Ayyadurai (Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey, Guildford,UK)
• James Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, P.R. China)
• Reuben A. Farrugia (University of Malta, Malta (Europe))
• Ir. Gerard J.M. Smit (Universtity of Twente, department EEMCS, Netherlands)
• Yin-Fu Huang (Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
• Seung-Joon Seok ( Kyungnam University, South Korea)
• mingyue zhai (North China Electric Power University, China)
• Lansheng Han (Huazhong university of science and technology, China)
• Jian Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
• Seung-Joon Seok (Dept. of computer engineering of Kyungnam University, South Korea)
• Murad Abusubaih (Telecommunications Network Group (TKN) Technical University Berlin, Germany)
• Jianxin Li (Beihang University, China)
• David Luigi Fuschi (IMSS, University of Reading, UK)
• Shaowen Song (Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
• Alex Aravind (University of Northern British, Columbia)
• Prabu Dorairaj (Wipro Technologies, NJ, USA)
• Khoa N Le (Griffith University, Australia)
• Yong Li (School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
• Daniel Linstedt (Genesee Academy, LLC, Colorado, USA)
• Hui Li (Zhenjiang University, China)
• Christopher Skinner (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Mustafa M. Matalgah (University of Mississippi, USA)
• Michael W. Condry (IEEE Technology Management Council Board of Governors, San Jose, CA)
• Anastasios A. Economides (University of Macedonia, Greece)
• Bernard Cousin (University of Rennes 1, France)
• Winston Li (ARCON Corporation, US)
• K. Subramanian (Advanced Center for Informatics & Innovative Learning(IGNOU), India)
• Jaime Lloret-Mauri (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
• Yan Bai (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
• Joel Rodrigues (Institute of Telecommunication, University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
• Roberto Rinaldo (University of Udine, Italy)
• Juan Suardíaz Muro (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)
• Mark Dixon (University of Western Australia, Australia)
• Francesca Lonetti (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI) of National Research Council (CNR) of Pisa (Italy)
• Carlos Juiz (University of the Balearic Islands Spain)
• Riccardo Bernardini (University of Udine, Italy)
• Farshad Kheiri (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
• Seong-Moo Yoo (University of Alabama, USA)
• Chuan Lin (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
• Ibibia. K. Dabipi (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA)
• Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• Henrique Joao Lopes Domingos (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Juan Jose Martinez Castillo (Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" University and Acantelys Research Gropu, Venezuela)
• Zuqing Zhu (Cisco Systems San Jose, USA)

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