Frontiers in Communications and Networks

Open Access Policy: Articles are published under a gold open-access model and are freely available to readers.

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), according to the publisher's open-access statement.

Peer Review Policy: Single-anonymized peer review, with manuscripts evaluated by editors and community reviewers with relevant expertise.

Publication Ethics: The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Originality and Plagiarism: Manuscripts must comply with the publisher's originality and publication ethics requirements.

Research Integrity: Authors must report methods, results, and limitations accurately and transparently.

Data Availability: Authors should provide data availability statements and make supporting data, code, and research materials accessible when appropriate, subject to legal, ethical, and licensing restrictions.

Conflicts of Interest: Authors must disclose relevant competing interests.

Corrections and Retractions: Post-publication corrections and other editorial actions follow the publisher's applicable policies.

Scope Policy: Submissions must make a clear contribution to communication processes, telecommunications systems, or network technologies.

Editorial Independence: Editorial decisions follow the journal's review process. Payment of publication charges does not guarantee acceptance.

Authors must submit manuscripts to the specialty section most appropriate to their research topic and demonstrate a clear contribution to communications or network engineering.

Manuscripts should present technically sound research, transparent methodology, and appropriate theoretical, computational, experimental, or practical validation.

Authors must:

• Follow the journal's current manuscript preparation and submission requirements.
• Select an article type accepted by the chosen specialty section.
• Include a title, abstract, keywords, references, figures, tables, and supplementary materials where applicable.
• Describe system architectures, algorithms, mathematical models, experimental setups, datasets, and evaluation methods in sufficient detail.
• Provide suitable benchmarks, performance metrics, comparative evaluations, or experimental validation where relevant.
• Explain the technical significance and potential applications of the results.
• Disclose funding sources, author contributions, and competing interests.
• Obtain required ethical approvals for studies involving human participants or sensitive data.
• Provide data availability statements and share code, datasets, and supporting materials when appropriate and permitted.
• Respond to editorial and reviewer comments during peer review.

Manuscripts must emphasize communication processes, telecommunications systems, or network technologies to be considered within scope.