Intelligent Networking and Computing is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal.

Aims and Scope

Intelligent Networking and Computing (iNECT) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to high-quality original research on the design, analysis, and realization of networking and computing systems, with an emphasis on their deep integration with learning-based, data-driven, and AI-native methodologies.

The journal provides a high-quality forum for interdisciplinary research that advances the theory, architecture, algorithms, and systems of modern networking and computing. The name iNECT reflects this emphasis on connection, highlighting the journal's focus on integrating networking, computing, and intelligence through principled system design. By emphasizing connection, coordination, and co-design across systems, layers, and methodologies, iNECT promotes intelligent networking and computing by design across the system lifecycle, bridging domains that have traditionally evolved in isolation.iNECT welcomes original research articles, surveys, and visionary perspectives in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Networking Systems and Architectures:

• Wired and wireless networks, future communication systems, and next-generation networking architectures
• Programmable, software-defined, and autonomous networking
• Network measurement, monitoring, control, and performance analysis
• Telemetry, observability, and data pipelines for intelligent networked systems

Computing Systems and Platforms:

• Cloud, edge, and fog computing; distributed and large-scale systems
• Resource management, scheduling, and system optimization
• Energy-, carbon-, and cost-aware computing systems

Learning- and AI-Integrated Systems:

• Learning-based and data-driven networking and computing
• Foundation models, generative AI, and AI-native system architectures
• Explainable and trustworthy system intelligence

Integrated Networking and Computing:

• Joint design and co-optimization across networking and computing
• Cross-layer and cross-domain system intelligence
• End-edge-cloud collaboration for AI services, including distributed training, inference, and serving

Applications and Emerging Systems:

• IoT, cyber-physical systems, intelligent transportation, smart cities, and industrial systems
• Networked AI services and large-model-enabled applications
• Secure, reliable, and privacy-aware intelligent networked applications and services
• Deployment, validation, and evaluation of AI-native networking and computing systems, including testbeds, standards, interoperability, and reproducible research

By fostering interdisciplinary research and cross-layer system design, iNECT is committed to advancing the state of the art in intelligent networking and computing, and to shaping a future of connected intelligence through principled system integration.

Ownership

The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.

Publishing Model

Gold Open Access. All articles published by Intelligent Networking and Computing are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

Copyright and License to Publish

Articles in Intelligent Networking and Computing are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting Intelligent Networking and Computing, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to Intelligent Networking and Computing should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.

Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.

Publication Ethics Statement

Intelligent Networking and Computing fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Intelligent Networking and Computing take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.

Journal Information and Statistics

• Publication model: Gold Open Access
• Frequency: Quarterly
• ISSN: Coming soon.
• Digital archive: Portico

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