Topics of Interest & Submission Guidelines – OWC ’14

Agenda for this years meeting.

Topics of Interest:

New aspects of IRC and applications	Communication characteristics of single-chip and multi-chip lighting LEDs
Optical wireless communications for next generation wireless networks	UVC atmospheric scattering and absorption channel modeling
Modulation, coding and detection for different optical spectra	Modulation, coding and detection for different optical spectra
Modeling of various noises in optical wireless communication	UVC system design perspectives
Multi-input/multi-output optical communication techniques	UVC range/rate/error performance tradeoffs
Beam diverging and concentrating techniques	LED radiation safety in communication design
Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile optical communication	LED pointing, acquisition and tracking in mobile scenarios
Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic light optical communication	Navigation and sensor networks by LEDs
Deep-space and satellite laser communications	Wavelength planning in optical communication techniques
On-chip optical communications	Centralized and distributed optical wireless network designs
Underwater optical channel modeling and system design	Mobility, tracking and steering in indoor environment
Modeling of indoor diffused and reflected light beams	Optical wireless sensor networks
VLC transceiver design and optimization	Optical wireless communications in 4G networks
VLC link duplexing and multiple access techniques	Impact of lighting in concurrent VLC design
Techniques to mitigate fading and beam break-up due to atmospheric turbulence/scintillation:spatial, temporal, polarization, and coding diversity strategies,and adaptive approaches

Submission Guidelines:

IEEE OWC Workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 6-page IEEE conference style paper (including all text, figures, and references) through the EDAS submission system (http://www.edas.info). (If you have any problems during submission, please contact: tdcl at bu.edu). Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for the author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All papers selected for presentation will be published together with IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 proceedings and available on the IEEE Xplore database