IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of the IEEE Communications Society, established in 1998 under the title IEEE Communications Surveys and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, with a 2025 impact factor of 50.6IEEE 通信综述与教程（IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials）是 IEEE 通信学会旗下的同行评审季刊，1998 年以 IEEE Communications Surveys 之名创刊，被科学引文索引扩展版与 Scopus 收录，2025 年影响因子为 50.6。

Scope

• Tutorial and survey papers that map the literature of a communications subfield and explain its core ideas to readers outside that area发表教程与综述论文，梳理通信某一子领域的文献脉络，并向该领域之外的读者阐释其核心思想。
• Communication networks and protocols, wireless and mobile communications, the Internet of Things, and cloud and edge computing涵盖通信网络与协议、无线与移动通信、物联网以及云计算与边缘计算等方向。
• Network security, privacy, and quantum communications, including the migration of classical cryptographic methods to quantum-safe designs涉及网络安全、隐私与量子通信，包括经典密码方法向量子安全设计的迁移。
• Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to network design, resource allocation, and autonomous network operation关注人工智能与机器学习在网络设计、资源分配与自治网络运行中的应用。
• Emerging architectures such as space-air-ground integrated networks, satellite constellations, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces涵盖空天地一体化网络、卫星星座与可重构智能表面等新兴体系结构。

History

• The journal began in 1998 as IEEE Communications Surveys and adopted its present title in 2000该刊于 1998 年以 IEEE Communications Surveys 之名创刊，2000 年改为现名。
• It is published by the IEEE Communications Society under the IEEE imprint and appears four times a year该刊由 IEEE 通信学会出版，隶属 IEEE 出版体系，每年出版 4 期。
• Its impact factor rose from about 20 in 2017 to 50.6 in 2025, making it one of the most cited titles in telecommunications其影响因子从 2017 年的约 20 升至 2025 年的 50.6，成为电信领域被引最多的期刊之一。
• Its complete archive is hosted on IEEE Xplore, whose title history records the predecessor name used from 1998 to 1999全部过刊存档于 IEEE Xplore，其刊名沿革记录了 1998 年至 1999 年使用的前身刊名。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Trung Q. Duong, a Canada Excellence Research Chair at Memorial University of Newfoundland, who took up the role around 2025现任主编为 Trung Q. Duong，他是纽芬兰纪念大学的加拿大卓越研究讲席教授，约 2025 年上任。
• His predecessor Dusit Niyato of Nanyang Technological University served as editor-in-chief from 2021 to 2024前任主编为南洋理工大学的 Dusit Niyato，任期为 2021 年至 2024 年。
• Manuscripts are assessed anonymously by at least two independent reviewers assigned by the editorial board, and only original surveys or tutorials written for the journal are considered稿件由编委会指派至少两名独立评审人匿名评审，仅接受专为本刊撰写的原创综述或教程。
• Authors may make accepted articles immediately free to read through the IEEE open access option, which carries an article processing charge作者可通过 IEEE 开放获取选项使录用文章立即免费阅读，该选项需支付版面费。