Department Author Guidelines
In addition to peer-reviewed feature articles, IEEE Internet Computing welcomes submissions of several types. To contribute a piece to one of the following departments, please contact the editor directly.
Aside from the information on the peer-review process, the basic information in our complete author guidelines is still applicable to department submissions. Specifically, all articles should appeal to a technical readership of advanced application developers and engineers. Our department editors want to bring readers information they can really use; we do not accept white papers or marketing pieces. All submissions must be original.
Spotlight
IC's "Spotlight" series features tutorials and surveys (2,400-3,200 words, including approximately 250 words for each figure) on emerging technologies or new aspects of existing technologies that will provide the software platforms for Internet applications. Spotlight articles should give developers of advanced Web-based applications a practical introduction to applying the technologies and methods. Previous articles have covered a range of topics, including RDF, device independence, and Web services.
For feedback on a submission's suitability, please contact department editor Munindar Singh.
Packets and Protocols
"On the Wire" features tutorials (2,500-3,500 words, including 250 words for illustrations) on the network and transport layer protocols and technologies that establish the infrastructure for Internet-based applications. This department should illuminate this infrastructure from a network engineer's perspective for readers who are primarily system and software developers. Past columns have provided coverage on topics such as RSVP signaling, IP QoS, small-group multicast, and IP-over-Optical.
For feedback on a submission's suitability, please contact department editor Chris Metz.
Peering
IC's "Peering" column provides a forum for provocative essays (700-2,100 words) on various topics that affect the entire Internet community. Possible topics might include how to address some of the faults underlying prevailing ideas in computing, how networking technology will need to advance once all our everyday things have digital heartbeats, or a map of the world of networking as it could appear five, 10, or 20 years from now—a world in which we might not even recognize the Internet we know today.
To submit a topic's suitability and to arrange for timely submission and review, interested contributors should email an ASCII message with the proposed column's title and a one-paragraph outline to dept editor Charles Petrie via http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/.plan
Letters to the Editor
Read something in IC that made you want to speak out? Send your response (up to 500 words) to lead editor Rebecca Deuel, and we might run it in our "Posted" department. Please include reference to the article and the issue in which it appeared, along with your name and contact info.
