Editorial Policies

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

Patron in Chief

Lutfullah Kakakhel
Vice Chancellor,
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST)

Editor in Chief

Shafiullah Khan
Institute of Information Technology (IIT)
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST)


Managing Editor

Zeeshan Iqbal
Institute of Information Technology (IIT)
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST)

Area Editors

Jonathan Loo
Brunel University, United Kingdom 

Mahmud Wasfi 
Prestige Engineering, British Columbia, Canada
IEEE Senior Member 

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
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


Editorial Board Members

Velmurugan Ayyadurai (Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK)
Xiaolong Jin (School of Informatics, University of  Bradford, Bradford, UK)
Anyong Qing (Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore)
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)
Francine Krief (LaBRI Laboratory, France)
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)
Jesus Hamilton Ortiz (University of castilla y la Mancha, Spain)
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)
Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain)
Farshad Kheiri (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Xianhui Che (Swansea Metropolitan University, UK)
Seong-Moo Yoo (University of Alabama, USA)
Chuan Lin (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Zair Abdelouahab (Federal University of Maranhão , Brazil)
Ibibia. K. Dabipi (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA)
Piotr Zwierzykowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Carlos Becker Westphall (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Henrique Joao Lopes Domingos (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Ming Xia (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

 

Abstracting/ Indexing in

· INSPEC

· EBSCO

· Ulrich's

· TOC Premier

· Computer and Information Systems Abstracts

· Computers and Applied Sciences Complete

· Google Scholar

· International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center

· Scirus

· ScientificCommons 

· Genamics JournalSeek

· High Technology and Aerospace Collection 

· NewJour - Electronic Journals and Newsletters

· Intute - Science Engineering and Technology

· Open J-Gate

· Computing - ProQuest

· ProQuest Telecommunications 

· Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Computer Science  

· Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center

· Science Journals

· (also undergoing in many other International databases)

 



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