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Network Protocols and Algorithms
Editor-in-Chief: Jaime Lloret Mauri
ISSN: 1943-3581 (online)
80 pages/issue
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Aims and Scope
The journal publishes papers about Network Protocols, Communication systems, Algorithms for communications and any type of protocol and algorithm for Computer Networks.

Network protocols and algorithms are needed to communicate any device in a computer network.

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished and original works, which are not under review in any other journal. The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following topic areas:

  • Synchronization Protocols and Algorithms
  • Security Protocols and Algorithms
  • QoS Protocols and Algorithms
  • Ad-Hoc and Sensor Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Content Delivery Networks Protocols and Algorithms
  • P2P Protocols and Algorithms
  • Cluster-Based Protocols and Algorithms
  • Real-Time Protocols and Algorithms
  • Wireless Protocols and Algorithms
  • MAC Protocols and Algorithms for Wired Networks
  • Mobile wireless internet protocols and algorithms
  • Delay Tolerant protocols and algorithms
  • Mesh network protocols and algorithms
  • Protocols and algorithms for Voice over IP delivery
  • Cognitive Radio Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Monitoring and management protocols and algorithms
  • Optical networking protocols and algorithms
  • Scalable Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Protocols and algorithms for Green Computing and Resource Allocation
  • Power Efficient and Energy Saving Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Routing Protocols and Algorithms
  • Tree-based Protocols and Algorithms
  • Distributed/Decentralized Algorithms for Networks
  • Fault tolerant Protocols and Algorithms
  • Protocols and algorithms for Mobile and Dynamic Networks
  • Cross-Layer Collaborative Protocols and Algorithms
  • Formal methods and cryptographic algorithms for communication
  • Multimedia Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Network Protocols and Algorithms for Context-Aware and Semantic Networks
  • Localized Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Transport Layer Protocols
  • Smartgrid Protocols and Algorithms
  • Network Protocols Simulation Techniques
  • Protocols and Algorithms for Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  • Cloud Computing Network Protocols and Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence algorithms applied to Network Protocols
  • Protocols and algorithms for IPTV delivery

The topics suggested by the journal can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Proposals and deployments are also welcome.