Interconnection problems occur at different levels in the hardware and software design of communicating entities in integrated circuits, multiprocessors, multicomputers, and communication networks as diverse as telephone systems, cable network systems, computer networks, mobile communication networks, satellite network systems, the Internet and biological systems.

Original research articles, both theoretical and applied, are solicited. The topics covered by this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Network Structures and Topologies: multistage interconnection networks; networks underlying parallel computers and digital signal processors; VLSI layout theory; theoretical analysis of network properties, including reliability, reconfigurability, rearrangeability, fault-tolerance, and connectivity; algebraic and combinatorial properties of networks.
2. Routing and Scheduling: algorithms for routing and scheduling the flow of traffic in networks; routing in connection-oriented and connectionless networks; global routing, area routing, hierarchical routing; channel routing; load balancing; broadcast and multicast; routing in optical interconnection networks, ATM networks, mobile networks, and ad hoc networks; Internet routing protocols.
3. Network Computing: application of interconnection networks in computational domains. Parallel and distributed computing; mapping and scheduling parallel computations; graph embeddings; heterogeneous computing; networks of workstations (NOW); networking modeling (e.g., the BSP and LogP models); Internet computing.
4. Network Design and Applications: integrated circuits; VLSI layout of interconnection networks; design of network backplanes for heterogeneous multicomputers; design of network architectures for supercomputers and parallel processing systems; design of wide-area-network backbones; design of survivable networks, design of optical networks; case studies; evaluation of communication networks including (but not restricted to) LAN, MAN, WAN, telephone systems, cable networks, ATM networks, mobile communication networks, satellite networks, and the Internet; interoperability.
5. Global Networking: network planning; modeling of network traffic; network management policy (call admission, bandwidth allocation); network caching; security.
6. Structures and Functions in Biological Systems and Neural Networks: structures and functions in bioinformatics and neuroscience at the molecular, cell, organism, or species level; gene regulatory networks, metabolic pathways; algorithms used and networks arising from biological and central nervous systems; comparison and interaction between biological systems and physical information networks.

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