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GitHub用于评估通信系统稿件是否适合IEEE TCOM期刊，提供选题定位、分析加仿真的标准、与TWC/JSAC的路由建议及拒稿启发式规则。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定TCOM并需进行适配性检查
需要将方案重构为包含分析与性能结果的论文
在TCOM、TWC和JSAC之间选择投稿 venue
需要了解分析仿真标准及拒稿风险
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieee-transactions-on-communications -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ieee-transactions-on-communications",
"description": "Use when targeting IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) or deciding whether a communication-systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the analysis-plus-simulation bar, the system-performance expectation, the TCOM-vs-TWC-vs-JSAC routing, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
IEEE Transactions on Communications (ieee-transactions-on-communications)
Journal positioning
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) is a broad archival venue for the design and analysis of communication systems: modulation and detection, applied channel coding, equalization, multiple access, networking, and wireless and optical communication systems, with an emphasis on end-to-end system performance. The defining expectation is a communication contribution with quantitative performance analysis — a new scheme or architecture whose error/throughput/latency behavior is derived analytically and corroborated by simulation, sometimes by hardware. Pure fundamental-limit theorems belong in information theory; purely empirical ML pipelines with no communications model are a poor fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live IEEE Transactions on Communications author information and submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names TCOM for a communication-system design or performance-analysis manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A scheme must be re-framed from "it works in simulation" into a performance result with analysis, the right system model, and credible baselines.
- The author is choosing among TCOM,
ieee-transactions-on-wireless-communications(wireless-specific), andieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications(topical special issues). - The author needs the analysis-plus-simulation bar and desk-reject heuristics for communication systems.
Scope & topic fit
- Modulation, detection, and equalization; coded-modulation and applied channel-coding system design with performance analysis.
- Multiple-access and multiuser communication; interference management; cooperative and relay communication systems.
- Optical and free-space optical communication; underwater and molecular communication; satellite and non-terrestrial links.
- Communication networking and cross-layer design where the physical/link layer and measurable system performance are central.
- Energy efficiency, latency, and reliability analysis of communication systems, including emerging waveforms and architectures.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution is a scheme/architecture with quantitative performance — BER/BLER, throughput, outage, latency, or energy efficiency — derived analytically where feasible and validated by Monte Carlo simulation.
- Analytical results (closed-form or asymptotic expressions, bounds, scaling laws) strengthen the paper; simulation alone, without insight into why a scheme performs, is weaker.
- Baselines must be current, correctly tuned competitors under the same channel and system model; gains must be attributable to the proposed idea.
- Channel models, system assumptions, and operating regimes must be explicit and realistic; robustness to imperfect CSI or model mismatch should be addressed.
- Where applicable, complexity and implementability are discussed; testbed or hardware validation adds credibility but is not always required.
Structure & house style
- IEEE format; TCOM publishes full Papers — match scope to the format and re-check current article types and limits on the live guide.
- The system model and assumptions are stated precisely early; the proposed scheme, its analysis, and the performance evaluation form the core.
- The introduction motivates the communications gap and positions against prior schemes, not against fundamental limits unless that is the contribution.
- Figures are quantitative and comparative: performance-vs-SNR curves, throughput/latency plots, and analysis-vs-simulation agreement plots.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the IEEE Author Center anchors, then cite the current Transactions on Communications page you checked. - Search the live site for "IEEE Transactions on Communications information for authors" and follow the current submission-system version.
- Re-check article types and length/overlength policy, the IEEE template, and any overlap/dual-submission policy with sibling journals.
- Confirm reproducibility/simulation-code expectations for performance claims.
- Re-check ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements, and IEEE open-access options.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a communication scheme/architecture with quantitative performance, not a fundamental-limit theorem or a bare ML pipeline.
- Performance is derived analytically where feasible and corroborated by simulation, with analysis–simulation agreement shown.
- Baselines are current, correctly tuned competitors under a matched system/channel model.
- Channel and system assumptions are explicit and realistic; sensitivity to imperfect CSI/model mismatch is addressed.
- The wireless-specific vs. general-comms scope choice (TCOM vs. TWC vs. JSAC) is deliberate.
- Article type and length fit current limits.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Simulation-only scheme with no analysis and no insight into why it performs.
- Gains shown only over outdated or mistuned baselines, or under unrealistic channel assumptions.
- A fundamental-limit/capacity paper with no system-design contribution (belongs in information theory).
- Application of an off-the-shelf ML model to a communications dataset with no communications-system contribution.
- Incremental tweak of a known scheme with negligible, unexplained performance change.
Re-routing decision
- Fundamental capacity/limit theorem is the core →
ieee-transactions-on-information-theory. - Wireless-specific PHY/MAC, MIMO, channel modeling →
ieee-transactions-on-wireless-communications. - Topical systems-frontier work matching an active call →
ieee-journal-on-selected-areas-in-communications. - Signal-processing method with analysis as the core →
ieee-transactions-on-signal-processing. - Broad tutorial/survey of a communications area →
proceedings-of-the-ieee.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] IEEE Transactions on Communications
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest communications subtopics>
[Scheme + performance] <the design and the metric(s) it improves>
[Analysis vs simulation] <derived + corroborated? baselines matched?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Sibling check] TCOM vs. TWC vs. JSAC (one-line reason)
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / sim-code / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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