Ad Hoc Networks

Ad Hoc Networks is an international archival journal published by Elsevier in Amsterdam, founded in 2003 as a forum for ad hoc, sensor and wireless networking research, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.4《自组网》是（Elsevier）在阿姆斯特丹出版的国际性存档期刊，2003 年创刊，为自组网、传感器网络与无线网络研究提供发表平台，2025 年影响因子为 5.4。

Scope

• Its core subject is mobile and wireless ad hoc networks, including routing protocols for unicast, multicast and geocast traffic, medium access control and transport-layer design其核心主题是移动与无线自组网，涵盖单播、组播与地理广播路由协议，以及介质访问控制与传输层设计。
• Sensor networks, wireless local and personal area networks, home networks and networks of autonomous intelligent systems are covered, together with novel architectures and self-organizing protocols报道范围还包括传感器网络、无线局域网与个人区域网、家庭网络以及自主智能系统网络，并涉及新型架构与自组织协议。
• Energy is a central concern, so power-aware and energy-efficient design, synchronization and scheduling issues are treated as first-class topics能耗是该刊关注的核心，因此功耗感知与节能设计、同步与调度问题被列为主要议题。
• Mobility management, mobility-tolerant communication protocols, location tracking and location-based services form another stream移动性管理、容忍移动的通信协议、位置跟踪与基于位置的服务构成另一条主线。
• Security and fault tolerance, resource and information management, cross-layer interactions and scalability are within scope安全与容错、资源与信息管理、跨层交互以及可扩展性同样在收稿范围之内。
• The journal also publishes work on hardware and software platforms, systems and testbeds, experimental and prototype results, and quality-of-service guarantees该刊也刊载硬件与软件平台、系统与试验床、实验与原型结果以及服务质量保障方面的研究。
• Performance analysis and simulation of protocols, and studies that join theory with measured or deployed systems, are encouraged协议性能分析与仿真，以及把理论与实测或实际部署系统相结合的研究，均受到鼓励。

History

• The journal was launched in 2003 by Ian F. Akyildiz, whose opening editorial stood at the front of volume 1, issue 1该刊由伊恩·阿克约尔迪兹（Ian F. Akyildiz）于 2003 年创办，其发刊词刊登在第 1 卷第 1 期卷首。^[1]
• Volume 1 appeared in July 2003 under Elsevier, and a survey of mobile ad hoc networking published in that volume became one of the journal's most cited papers第 1 卷于 2003 年 7 月由（Elsevier）出版，该卷刊载的一篇移动自组网综述后来成为刊物被引最多的论文之一。
• From the outset the journal treated mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks as one connected field, an editorial stance that still shapes its scope创刊之初，该刊即把移动自组网与传感器网络视为相互连通的整体，这一编辑定位延续至今。
• It now appears in 14 volumes a year and publishes articles under article numbers rather than continuous page ranges该刊目前每年出版 14 卷，论文采用文章编号而非连续页码。
• The publisher runs an Ad Hoc Networks Best Paper Award and a Best Editor Award, and the journal regularly publishes special issues出版方设立了（Ad Hoc Networks）最佳论文奖与最佳编辑奖，该刊亦定期出版专题特刊。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.4, and it sits in Q1 of computer science, information systems and Q2 of telecommunications该刊 2025 年影响因子为 5.4，在计算机信息系统类位列 Q1，在电信学类位列 Q2。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Salil Kanhere of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, who also serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management现任主编为萨利尔·坎赫雷（Salil Kanhere），任职于悉尼新南威尔士大学计算机科学与工程学院，同时担任（IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management）副编辑。
• Ian F. Akyildiz of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who founded the journal, is honoured as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus创刊人、佐治亚理工学院的伊恩·阿克约尔迪兹（Ian F. Akyildiz）现为荣休主编。
• The editorial board is international, with members such as M. Aguilar at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, K. Akkaya at Florida International University and N. Aschenbruck at the University of Osnabruck编委会具有国际性，成员包括加泰罗尼亚理工大学的（M. Aguilar）、佛罗里达国际大学的（K. Akkaya）以及奥斯纳布吕克大学的（N. Aschenbruck）。
• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's Editorial Manager system and are peer reviewed by independent experts稿件通过出版方的（Editorial Manager）系统提交，并由独立专家进行同行评审。
• Associate editors assign referees and take decisions, while the board's spread across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia mirrors the journal's international readership副编辑负责指派审稿人并作出决定，编委分布于欧洲、北美、亚洲与澳大利亚，与其国际读者群相称。