WACOWC 2018 - 2018 First West Asian Colloquium on Optical Wireless Communications

This 1st colloquium aims to cover the entire field of optical wireless communications (OWC) and bring together researchers from academia and industry working in OWC, to present, share, and discuss their latest research results. The colloquium will also included practical demonstration of working systems. High quality and original technical papers are solicited to be presented at this event.
TOPIC OF INTEREST- includes (contributions are not limited to the following):
• All organic VLCs
• Channel modelling and characterisation
• Diversity techniques, Dimming, and localisation
• Device to device communications
• Free space optics
• Hybrid RF/OWC technology, MIMO for OWC
• Modelling of noise sources
• Modulation, coding and detection schemes
• Novel (photonic) devices and components
• OWC networks: architecture, PHY/MAC design
• Applications of OWC (VLC, FSO)
• Next generation wireless networks
• OWC transceiver design and optimization
• Ultraviolet communications
The colloquium will include two keynote speakers by international known researchers.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Prof Zabih Ghassemlooy, Northumbria University, UK
• Dr Asghar Gholami, Isfahan Univ. of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran
• Dr Reza Safian, IUT, Isfahan, Iran
• Dr Masoud Omoumi, IUT, Isfahan, Iran
• Dr Zaker Hossein Firouzeh, IIT, Isfahan, Iran
• Dr Forough-Sadat Tabataba, IUT, Isfahan, Iran
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTE
- Dr Salman Khan, Univ. of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
- Prof Jawad A. Salehi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- Dr Kyesan Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- Dr Kyujin Lee, Semyung University, Korea
- Prof Xuan Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian, China
- Dr Saedd Olyaee, S. Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran
- Dr Manav bhatnagar, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
- Dr Wasiu O. Popool, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Dr Sujan Rajbhandari, University of Coventry, UK
- Prof Shien-Kuei Liaw, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei
- Dr Refik Caglar Kizilirmak, Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan
- Prof Luis N Alves, Instituto Politecnico de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
- Prof Murat Ussal, Ozyegin University, Turkey
- Prof George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Prof Stanislav Zvanovec, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Dr Ali Khalighi, Ecole Centrale Marseille-Institut Fresnel, France
- Dr Thomas Kamalakis, Harokopio University, Greece
- Dr Rafael Perez Jimenez, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- Prof Min Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
- Dr Hsin-Mu Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Dr Gholamreza Baghersalimi, University of Guilan, Iran
- Dr Anna Maris, Roma Tre University, Italy
- Dr Anh T. Pham, The University of Aizu, Japan
- Prof Yeon-Ho Chung, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea
- Prof Anthony .C. Boucouvalas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
- Prof Erich Leitgeb, Technical University of Gratz, Austria
- Dr Paul Haigh, University College London, UK
- Dr Tran The Son, Vietnam-Korea Friendship ITC, Danang, Vietnam