WS-17: Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications

In recent years, wireless communication has significantly evolved due to the advanced technology of smartphones, portable devices and the rapid growth of Internet of Things, e-Health, e-Commerce, intelligent transportation systems and social networking. Forecasted by Cisco, the wireless mobile traffic will be dominant over the data network as part of the new connected world in 2020 and the upcoming 5G and beyond wireless technologies. More recently, we have seen growing research activities in Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) as a complementary wireless technology to the more established radio frequency (RF)-based systems such as cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to overcome the spectrum crunch and provide high data rates in urban environments and crowded locations. The OWC technology offering advantages such as free license, wide bandwidth, inherent security and no RF-based electromagnetic interference, which makes it very attractive for the emerging 5G wireless communications.

Nevertheless, the widespread deployment of OWC systems in the three major bands of infra-red, ultra-violet and visible light, will face several challenges including the weather effects (mostly for free-space optical communication in outdoors), channel impairments, eye and skin safety regulations, compatibility with existing networks, mobility (mostly in outdoor environments), cost per device and volume, and device/system performance. These challenges have led to a substantial volume of research activities both at academia and industry at a global level to make OWC systems a more reliable and viable wireless option as part of the future integrated networks.

The full-day workshop on OWC aims to bring together researchers and software and hardware developers from academia and industry to present, share and discuss their latest research results on OWC. We solicit high-quality technical paper submissions based on original research and will select some suitable papers to be presented at the Workshop.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST - (contributions are not limited to the following):

 

All organic based VLCs

Channel modelling and characterization

Channel capacity analysis

Diversity techniques for OWC

Dimming, data communications and localization in VLCs

Free space optics (indoor, outdoor and under water) 

Hybrid RF/OWC technology

MIMO for OWC

Modelling of various noises in optical wireless communications

Modulation, coding and detection schemes

Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile optical communication

Novel (photonic) devices and components OWC

OWC and VLC networks: architecture, PHY/MAC design, cross-layer design etc.

OWC applications in device-to-device communications, medical applications, intelligent transportation systems-vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic communications, trains, planes, etc., inter and intra chip communications

Internet of Things and wireless sensor networks, next generation wireless networks, manufacturing

OWC transceiver design and optimization

OWC duplexing and multiple access techniques

OWC networking

OWC for space industry

Underwater OWC communication

Ultraviolet communications

Visible light communications (indoor, outdoor and localization)

 

Submission Link:

https://edas.info/N26830

 

Important dates:

 

Deadline for workshop paper submission: 27 January 2020 (New Deadline)

Acceptance/rejection announcement: 22 February 2020

Final workshop papers due: 16 March 2020