TOPICS OF INTEREST
The 4th Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications will accept submissions dealing with the following topics of Interest - (but contributions are not limited to the following):
- All organic based VLCs
- Channel modelling and characterisation
- Channel capacity analysis
- Diversity techniques for OWC
- Dimming, data communications and localisation 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
- e-Health
- Intelligent Transportation Systems vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic communications, trains, planes, etc.
- inter and intra chip communications
- Internet of Things
- medical applications
- next generation wireless networks
- wireless sensor 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 localisation)
Important dates
- Paper submission: 10 Jan. 2018
- Reviews completed: 1 Feb. 2018
- Paper acceptance notification: 16 Feb. 2018
- Camera ready submission: 16 Mar. 2018
