Focus and Scope

International Journal of Advances in Optical Communication and Networks (IJAOCN) is a scholarly peer reviewed international scientific journal published three times (April, August, December) in a year. The scope of the Journal includes advances in the state-of-the-art of optical communications and networks, from device to network levels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. 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 optical communication and networks.

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

Dr. Zuqing Zhu
Cisco Systems
San Jose, USA

Managing Editor

Dr. Ji Chen
Avago Technologies
San Jose, USA

Associate Editors

Prof. Nasir Ghani
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, USA

Dr. Fei Wang
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, USA

Shafiullah Khan
Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST)
Pakistan

Dr. Shao Xu
Institute for Infocomm Research
Singapore

Dr. Ronald Broeke
BB Photonics
Netherlands

Dr. Francisco Soares
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Germany

Dr. Youichi Akasaka
Fujitsu Laboratories of America
Richardson, USA

Prof. Rujian Lin
Shanghai University
P. R. China

Prof. Akbar Ghaffar Pour Rahbar
Sahand University of Technology
Iran

Prof. Haitham S. Hamza
Cairo University
Egypt

Prof. Gangxiang Shen
Soochow University
P. R. China

Prof. Tong Ye
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
P. R. China

Dr. Bo Fu
Marvell Inc.
Santa Clara, USA

Prof. Lilin Yi
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
P. R. China

Technical Editors

Bo Xiang
Cornell University
Ithaca, USA

Jiaqi Chen
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, USA

Peiyan Cao
Cornell University
Ithaca, USA

Dr. Ghulam Abbas
Liverpool Hope University
United Kingdom

Amit Wason
RBIEBT
Kharar, India

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