Paper Topics

Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:

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