International Conference on Information Networking

About International Conference on Information Networking

International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN): Conference Proceedings Profile

The International Conference on Information Networking, widely known by its acronym ICOIN, is not a conventional journal. It is a long-running annual international conference on computer communication and networking, and the record in this directory describes its published proceedings. Those proceedings carry ISSN 1976-7684, are associated in bibliometric listings with the IEEE Computer Society in the United States, and are tracked as a conference proceedings series with an h-index of 39 and an SJR value of 0.258 in the data shown on this record. Understanding ICOIN therefore means understanding a conference first and a publication second: papers enter the record because they were submitted to, reviewed for, accepted by and presented at a particular edition of the meeting, not because an editor commissioned them for a journal issue.

ICOIN is organised by the Korea Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) and is technically co-sponsored by IEEE, with co-sponsorship arrangements that have also involved IEICE in recent editions. Its official calls describe it as a comprehensive forum for advances in computer communication and networking technologies. The 40th edition was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 14 to 16 January 2026, and the 41st edition was announced for 13 to 15 January 2027 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. The 39th edition met in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in January 2025. That pattern — a January meeting, usually in an Asia-Pacific location, organised from Korea but deliberately international in participation — has become part of the conference identity.

At a Glance

History and Identity

ICOIN traces its beginning to 1986, when it started as the Joint Workshop on Computer Communication. That origin matters because the problems of that period were foundational: how computers should exchange information reliably, how networks should be structured, and how communication protocols should behave when traffic, distance and heterogeneity increased. Over four decades the workshop grew into a full international conference, keeping the networking core while the technology around it changed completely. Dial-up and early packet networks gave way to broadband, mobile telephony, Wi-Fi, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, 5G and early work toward 6G, network softwarisation and artificial intelligence applied to network management. ICOIN calls explicitly frame that continuity, noting that communication and networking technologies have changed everyday life and society and that the conference continues to address the new information technology paradigms that will shape different sectors in the future.

The Korean organisation is also central to the identity. KIISE is a major Korean professional society for information science and engineering, and ICOIN reflects both a Korean research community with strong strength in telecommunications and an international meeting that travels. Holding recent editions in Thailand and Vietnam rather than only in Korea underlines that regional and global ambition. At the same time, technical co-sponsorship by IEEE connects the proceedings to the IEEE conference ecosystem, its formatting and quality expectations, and its digital library. Readers should therefore cite an ICOIN paper as a conference paper, give the edition and year, and use the paper DOI where one has been assigned, rather than describing it as a journal article.

Edition numbering helps verify a citation. If a paper claims to be from ICOIN 2026, it should belong to the 40th edition in Hanoi. A paper from ICOIN 2025 should belong to the 39th edition in Chiang Mai. Older proceedings were published through different routes in different years, including edited volumes in earlier periods, so the exact publisher statement can vary by year even though the ISSN for the recent IEEE proceedings series is consistent in the listings consulted. That variation is normal for a conference with a forty-year history and is a reason to check the individual proceedings volume rather than assume every year used identical arrangements.

Scope and Topics

The scope is computer communication and networking in the broadest practical sense, from physical and link-layer questions through routing, transport, network architecture, distributed systems that depend on networks, security and the applications that run over converged networks. Official calls invite original, unpublished manuscripts showing recent advances in computer communication, wireless and mobile networks and converged networks, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. A theoretical paper might propose a new routing algorithm and prove properties about its behaviour or test it in simulation. A practical paper might build a prototype system, deploy it on real hardware, measure its performance on a testbed and discuss what failed as well as what worked. ICOIN has room for both, provided the networking contribution is clear.

Recurring topic areas in recent calls include 5G and 6G cellular systems and heterogeneous networks; ad hoc and sensor networks; artificial intelligence and autonomous networking; big data and cloud computing in relation to networks; blockchain platforms and services when they have a networking dimension; cognitive radio and cooperative communication; content distribution networks; networked computing systems and devices; network performance analysis, measurement and evaluation; network security, trust and privacy; network simulation and modelling; network survivability and reliability; resource management; routing, switching and addressing; signal processing for communications; smart grid communications; social computing and networks; software-defined networks; underwater communications; vehicle-to-everything communication and autonomous vehicles; virtual and augmented reality applications and services; and wireless and mobile communications and networks more generally. This list is illustrative rather than a promise that every topic appears every year; each edition publishes its own call and authors should follow that edition in detail.

What counts as out of scope is equally useful. A general artificial intelligence paper with no communication, networking or distributed-systems contribution will fit poorly even if it uses a network as background infrastructure. A purely commercial product description without technical evaluation will also struggle. The strongest ICOIN submissions make three things explicit: the networking problem, why existing approaches leave it unsolved, and the evidence — analysis, simulation, measurement or deployment — that the proposed approach improves matters. Papers that connect a networking advance to a concrete use case, such as industrial control, healthcare delivery, transport safety or energy systems, should still centre the communication contribution, because that is what the programme committee is assembled to judge.

How the Conference and Its Proceedings Work

Authors submit to a specific edition by that edition deadline, through the submission system named in the call — EDAS has been used in recent calls. Recent calls have invited full papers of about five to six pages and short papers of about three to four pages, prepared with the IEEE conference template. Exact page limits and deadlines change by edition, so the figures here are guidance from recent practice, not a substitute for the current call. Submitted papers are reviewed by members of the Technical Program Committee and other reviewers chosen for the topic. Acceptance depends on originality, technical soundness, relevance to the call, clarity and the quality of evaluation. A paper can be well written and still be rejected if its evaluation is too weak to support its claims, a common pattern in networking research where simulation choices can strongly affect results.

Programme structure typically combines keynote speeches, tutorials, oral sessions, poster sessions, workshops and demonstrations. Recent calls emphasise presenting emerging ideas and applications, showing demos of innovative systems, tools and prototypes, and taking part in interactive experiences alongside conventional paper presentations. That mix reflects how networking research is done: a prototype demonstration can reveal latency, failure behaviour or usability in a way a slide cannot, and a poster conversation can produce the detailed methodological feedback that helps a research group improve the next version of a system. Best Paper Awards have been announced in recent calls for outstanding contributed papers, although candidates should confirm the award arrangements for the edition they enter.

Publication follows presentation. The stated practice in recent calls is that accepted and presented papers appear in the conference proceedings and are submitted to IEEE Xplore. Inclusion in a digital library is subject to that library scope and quality requirements, and authors should not treat acceptance alone as a guarantee about every downstream index. Conference registration, attendance and presentation rules also matter: a paper whose authors do not register or present as required may be excluded from the final proceedings under the edition policy. Anyone planning a submission for a degree, promotion or funding requirement should read the edition rules on presentation and publication carefully before relying on the paper for that purpose.

Metrics, Indexing and How to Read Them

The directory record lists an h-index of 39 and an SJR of 0.258 for this proceedings series, with no quartile displayed. Those numbers describe the citation behaviour of the proceedings as a serial source in the bibliometric database that produced them; they do not describe the quality of any single paper and they are not a journal impact factor. A conference proceedings h-index of 39 means, in the usual definition, that 39 papers in the set have each received at least 39 citations. That is a respectable sign of sustained use for a specialist conference, because conference papers often have shorter citation lives than journal articles and many are superseded by extended journal versions. SJR weights citations by the standing of the citing sources; for proceedings, comparisons are most sensible against other networking conferences, not against large general journals in computer science.

Indexing claims need the same care. ICOIN proceedings are submitted to IEEE Xplore, and bibliometric coverage in Scopus is the reason a proceedings series can acquire SJR and h-index values at all. Coverage can vary by year, however, and a database may list some editions more completely than others. If an institution requires Scopus or Web of Science coverage for a particular paper, the author should check that paper, by title or DOI, in the database itself after publication, rather than relying on a general statement about the conference. Likewise, a researcher evaluating an ICOIN paper for hiring or collaboration should read the paper, check whether a later journal extension exists, and look at who cited it and why — a far more informative test than any single series-level number.

There is also a distinction between the proceedings ISSN, 1976-7684, and the ISBN assigned to a particular edition proceedings volume. The ISSN identifies the continuing series; the ISBN identifies a specific published volume. Confusing the two in a reference list is a common cataloguing error. The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library listings for recent editions show both numbers together, which is the clearest illustration: one series, many yearly volumes, each with its own ISBN and DOI-registered papers.

Who Should Submit, and Who Should Read

ICOIN suits researchers in universities, public laboratories and industry who work on communication networks and can present a finished or nearly finished piece of work in a short conference format. Doctoral students often use a conference such as ICOIN to obtain community feedback before extending a result into a journal article; established groups use it to report measurement studies, prototypes and incremental but timely advances that would lose value if held for a long journal cycle. Industry researchers with testbed results, standards-relevant evaluations or deployment experience can be a good fit when the technical detail is shareable. Readers include network engineers, protocol designers, wireless researchers, cloud and edge computing specialists, and security researchers whose work touches communication systems.

Before submitting, run a honest fit check. First, state your contribution in one sentence beginning with the networking problem, not the technique. Second, check recent ICOIN proceedings for the closest prior work and explain the difference; reviewers familiar with the conference will know that literature. Third, audit the evaluation: are baselines current, are parameters justified, are results repeated or statistically described where appropriate, and are limitations stated? Fourth, respect the page budget by moving secondary detail into clear figures and concise tables rather than shrinking the argument until it becomes unreadable. Fifth, plan for presentation from the start: a clear demo, poster or talk is part of the scholarly product at a conference, not an afterthought.

Costs, registration fees, visa timelines and travel support are edition-specific and are not stated in this profile because they change each year and were not fixed in the sources used for the general description. The official site for the relevant edition is the only safe source for those details. Similarly, acceptance rates are not publicly disclosed in a consistent official form in the sources consulted, so no rate is quoted here; authors should judge competitiveness from the quality of recent proceedings and the seniority of the programme committee instead of from unofficial figures circulating elsewhere.

Relationship to Journals and Extended Versions

Many networking groups publish a conference version first and a substantially extended journal version later. That practice is legitimate when both venues rules are followed, the later version adds significant new material, and the earlier paper is cited transparently. It also means a literature search that stops at ICOIN may miss the mature version of a result, while a search that only looks at journals may miss the earliest public statement and the prototype detail that the conference paper contained. For systematic reviews, record both versions, note their relationship, and avoid counting the same study twice as if it were independent evidence. For citation, prefer the version you actually read and used; if you rely on an extended analysis that only appears in the journal version, cite that version.

Conversely, not every ICOIN paper should be extended. A measurement snapshot, a negative result or a focused prototype may be complete in conference form. The value of the proceedings as a whole is precisely that it preserves those timely, specific contributions across forty years of rapid change, creating a record of what the networking community thought was important in each period — from early computer communication workshops to contemporary work on intelligent, software-defined and next-generation mobile networks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ICOIN a journal? No. It is an annual conference. This directory record describes its proceedings, which are catalogued as a serial with ISSN 1976-7684.

Who organises ICOIN? The Korea Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), with technical co-sponsorship by IEEE in recent editions.

When did ICOIN begin? In 1986, as the Joint Workshop on Computer Communication, according to its official calls.

Where were recent editions held? Chiang Mai, Thailand (39th, 2025) and Hanoi, Vietnam (40th, 2026); the 41st was announced for Nha Trang, Vietnam, in January 2027.

What topics does it cover? Computer communication, wireless and mobile networks, converged networks and related areas including 5G and 6G, network security, software-defined networking, cloud and edge networking, Internet of Things networking and network measurement.

How long is a typical submission? Recent calls invited full papers of about five to six pages and short papers of about three to four pages in IEEE conference format. Always confirm the limit in the call for the edition you target.

Where do accepted papers appear? In the conference proceedings, submitted to IEEE Xplore. Check the individual paper record for its DOI and indexing after publication.

What are the metrics on this record? H-index 39 and SJR 0.258, with no quartile shown. Treat them as series-level bibliometric indicators, not as a journal impact factor.

Verification Checklist

Readers verifying an ICOIN citation should check the edition number and year against the location, confirm the ISSN 1976-7684 for the proceedings series and the separate ISBN for that year volume, retrieve the paper through IEEE Xplore or the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, and confirm that the paper was actually presented under the edition rules. Authors should verify deadlines, page limits, submission system, registration requirements and publication conditions only on the official call for their target edition, because those operational details change annually. Used with those checks, ICOIN remains what its four-decade history suggests: a durable, specialist, internationally travelling conference whose proceedings are a useful window into how computer networking research has developed, year by year, from the workshop era to the age of intelligent and converged networks.