OWC 2014 - 5th IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC’14)

5th IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC’14)
Monday December 8, 2014, Austin TX, USA
Key Deadlines:
Submission due: July 15, 2014
Decision notification due: September 1, 2014
Technical program posted: September 15, 2014
Camera-ready due: October 1, 2014
Conference Chairs:
Thomas DC Little, Boston University,USA
Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Steve Hranilovic, McMaster University, Canada
Mitsuji Matsumoto, Waseda University, Japan
Workshop site:
http://www.bu.edu/smartlighting/5th-ieee-workshop-...
Technical Focus:
In recent years we have seen a growing international interest in
research and development in OWC systems. Traditionally, OWC technology
relies on high power solid-state lasers or diode lasers for medium to
long-range applications. Recently we have seen remarkable advances in
semiconductor sources such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) in visible
light and ultraviolet wavelengths, multi-array light sources and
detectors, tracking and steering. These advances provide huge
potentials for short/medium range wireless communication applications
at low power and low cost. This workshop aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working in
emerging visible light communications (VLC) and ultraviolet
communications (UVC) as well as the traditional wireless infrared
communications (IRC) to present, share and discuss their latest
research results. The workshop plans to include all aspects of optical
wireless communications, from indoor to outdoor, from atmosphere to
ground and underwater. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited
to:
- New aspects of IRC and applications
- Optical wireless communications for next generation wireless networks
- Modulation, coding and detection for different optical spectra
- Modeling of various noises in optical wireless communication
- Multi-input/multi-output optical communications tech.
- Beam diverging and concentrating techniques
- Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile optical communication
- Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic light optical communication
- Deep-space and satellite laser communications
- On-chip optical communications
- Underwater optical channel modeling and system design
- Modeling of indoor diffused and reflected light beams
- VLC transceiver design and optimization
- VLC link duplexing and multiple access techniques
- Impact of lighting in concurrent VLC design
- Communication characteristics of single- and multi-chip lighting LEDs
- UVC atmospheric scattering and absorption channel modeling
- UVC system design perspectives
- UVC range/rate/error performance tradeoffs
- LED radiation safety in communication design
- LED pointing, acquisition and tracking in mobile scenarios
- Navigation and sensor networks by LEDs
- Wavelength planning in optical communication techniques
- 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
Submission Guidelines:
The IEEE OWC Workshop program 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..