Program: 3rd IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC’12)
Presenting author is in bold
8:00-8:20 AM: Welcome – Overview of the Program by the Workshop Chairs
Thomas Little, Boston University
Free Space Optical Communications Session Chair: Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University
8:20-8:40 AM: Receiver Design for Shot Noise Limited MIMO FSO/UV Communication Systems
Ankit Gupta; Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia
8:40-9:00 AM: Impact of Tracking Errors on Dual Diversity Structure Over the Free Space Optics Links
Peng Liu; Song Liu, North China Electric Power University; Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University
9:00- 9:20 AM: Opportunistic Cooperation for FSO Links Aided by Decode and Forward Relay
Qunfeng He, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; Zhengyuan Xu, Tsinghua University slides
9:20-9:40 AM: FSO-MIMO Behavior in Variable Atmospheric Turbulence – an Asymptotic Approach
Istvan Frigyes; László Csurgai-Horváth; Péter Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
9:40-10:00 AM Break
Modulation Session Chair: Jean Armstrong, Monash University
10:00-10:20 AM: Achievable Data Rate Analysis of Clipped Flip-OFDM in Optical Wireless Communication
Zhenhua Yu; Robert John Baxley; G. Tong Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology slides
10:20-10:40 AM: Pulse Shaping in Unipolar OFDM-based Modulation Schemes
Dobroslav A. Tsonev; Sinan Sinanović; Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh slides
10:40-11:00 AM: Analytical Model for Optical Wireless OFDM System with Digital Signal Restoration
Evgeny V. Vanin, Acreo AB
11:00-11:20 AM: Position Modulating OFDM for Optical Wireless Communications
Asanka Nuwanpriya; Alex Grant; Siu-Wai Ho; Lin Luo, University of South Australia
11:20-11:40 AM: Constellation Design for Color-Shift Keying Using Interior Point Methods
Eric Monteiro; Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University slides
11:40-12:00 AM: Performance Analysis of Multi-pulse PPM for Optical Wireless Hierarchical Transmission System
Yusuke Kozawa, Tokyo University of Science; Hiromasa Habuchi, Ibaraki University slides
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch
Imaging Session Chair: Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University
1:00-1:20 AM: High-speed Transmission of Overlay Coding for Road-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication Using LED Array and High-Speed Camera slides
Sayaka Nishimoto; Takaya Yamazato; Hiraku Okada; Toshiaki Fujii; Tomohiro Yendo, Nagoya University; Shintaro Arai, Kagawa National College of Technology
1:20-1:40 AM: Hemispherical Lens Based Imaging Receiver for MIMO Optical Wireless Communications
Thomas Wang; Ahmet Sekercioglu; Jean Armstrong, Monash University slides
1:40-2:00 AM: Using a CMOS Camera Sensor for Visible Light Communication (Invited)
Christos Danakis; Mostafa Afgani; Gordon Povey, PureVLC; Ian Underwood; Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh
2:00-2:20 PM: Break
Applications Session Chair: Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh
2:20-2:40 PM: State Estimation and Motion Tracking for Spatially Diverse VLC Networks
Michael Rahaim; Gregary B Prince; Thomas DC Little, Boston University slides
2:40-3:00 PM: Hybrid Visible Light Communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems with Position Based Services
Jiang Liu, Waseda University; Peter Chan, CTTC-HK; Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, University Erlangen-Nurmberg; Ernest S. Lo, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Hong Kong; Shigeru Shimamoto, Waseda University slides
3:00-3:20 PM: Designs of a Free-Space White-LED Mass-Storage Transceiver for SD-Card File Transfer
Lih Chieh Png; Nhat Le Minh; Liangquan Chen; Kiat Seng Yeo, Nanyang Technological University slides
3:20-3:40 PM: An LED-to-LED Visible Light Communication System with Software-Based Synchronization (Invited)
Stefan Schmid, ETH Zurich; Giorgio Corbellini; Stefan Mangold, Disney Research; Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich slides
3:40-4:00 PM; Break
4:00-5:00 PM: Panel/Discussion
5:00 PM: Wrap Up – Planning for 2013
