IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Title	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Discipline	Computer networking
Abbreviation	IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Publisher	IEEE Communications Society and ACM SIGCOMM
Country	United States
History	1993–present
Frequency	Bimonthly
Issn	1063-6692

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research in computer networks, communications, and distributed systems, published jointly by the IEEE Communications Society and ACM SIGCOMM. The journal serves as a venue for foundational and applied work that intersects with research communities associated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and for authors affiliated with companies like Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.com.

Overview

The journal provides a venue for rigorous contributions that bridge theory and practice, attracting submissions from researchers at Princeton University, Cornell University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and University of Oxford as well as labs at Bell Labs, AT&T Laboratories, Nokia Bell Labs, and Huawei. Editorial standards align with conventions promoted by organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, and the readership includes members of IEEE Communications Society, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE Computer Society, and research groups at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

History and Publication Details

Established in the early 1990s amid parallel developments in routing, congestion control, and network design, the journal emerged alongside conferences such as SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, PODC, SOSP, and NSDI. Founding editors and early contributors included scholars affiliated with Rutgers University, University of Southern California, University of Michigan, and Columbia University. Published bimonthly, the journal has used production and archiving channels related to IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and institutional repositories at Harvard University, Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania.

Scope and Topics Covered

Topics commonly covered span routing and switching, congestion control, queuing theory, stochastic networks, protocol design, performance analysis, and security as they relate to works from research groups at Telecom ParisTech, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Seoul National University, and National University of Singapore. The journal also publishes studies on wireless and mobile networks, sensor networks, optical networking, software-defined networking, and cloud networking that connect to experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and industry testbeds at DARPA and European Organization for Nuclear Research. Cross-disciplinary submissions often cite methods and frameworks tied to Bellman-Ford algorithm, Dijkstra's algorithm, Markov chains, Poisson process, and applications in systems like Linux and FreeBSD.

Editorial Board and Peer Review Process

The editorial board comprises editors and associate editors from institutions including National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Toronto, McGill University, Imperial College London, and Technical University of Munich. The peer review process follows double-blind or single-blind modalities common to venues such as Nature Communications, Science Advances, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking publishers' policies, and conference committees modeled on SIGCOMM Program Committee, INFOCOM Technical Program Committee, and PODC Program Committee. Review cycles involve external reviewers drawn from faculty at Duke University, University of Washington, New York University, University of California, Los Angeles, and researchers at Facebook and Twitter, Inc..

Impact, Metrics, and Reception

The journal's impact is measured via citation indices tracked by Web of Science, Scopus, and services used by researchers at Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and ORCID. Its influence is reflected in citation practices across works presented at SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, SOSP, OSDI, and in standards contributions to bodies such as IETF, 3GPP, and ITU. Awards recognizing papers published or derived from the journal include recognitions by IEEE Communications Society, ACM SIGCOMM, and selections for best-paper lists at ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE INFOCOM.

Notable Papers and Contributions

Notable contributions have advanced understanding of congestion control and TCP performance—topics linked to researchers at University of California, San Diego, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University—and have influenced protocol designs adopted by companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Landmark works appearing in the journal intersect with foundational results related to AODV, OSPF, BGP, Multipath TCP, and theoretical frameworks such as game theory applications developed at University of Chicago and Stanford University. The journal has published influential analyses of wireless capacity that complement seminal conference papers from Guangdong University of Technology and collaborations with labs at Bell Labs and IBM Research.

Category:Computer networking journals