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Overview
This journal publishes papers involving optical communication networks. Coverage includes network and system technologies; network and system architectures; network access and control; network design, planning, and operation; interworking; and application design for an optical infrastructure
This journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presenting research results, major achievements, and trends involving all aspects of optical network communications.
Among the topics explored are transport, access, and customer premises networks; local, regional, and global networks; transoceanic and undersea networks; optical transparent networks; WDM, HWDM, and OTDM networks and more.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Byrav Ramamurthy
- Impact factor
- 1.7 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 1.9 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 110 days
- Downloads
- 37,448 (2023)
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Latest articles
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-8188
- Print ISSN
- 1387-974X
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ACM Digital Library
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology
- DBLP
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EI Compendex
- Google Scholar
- INSPEC
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information
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