IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, which is published jointly by the IEEE and the Association of Computing Machinery, was the number fourteen most-cited journal in electrical and electronics engineering in 2003, according to the annual Journal Citation Report (2003 edition) published by the Institute for Scientific Information. This publication is devoted to the timely release of high quality papers that advance the state-of-the-art and practical applications of computer networks, this journal covers such topics as: network architecture and design, communication protocols, network software, network technologies, network services and applications, and network operations management.