Optical components

1. •UVC system design
   

2. •LED radiation safety in communication system design
   

3. •VLC transceiver design and optimization
   

4. •Communication characteristics of lighting LEDs
   

5. •Beam diverging and concentrating techniques
   

6. •On-chip optical wireless communications
   

Channel and noise modeling

• Impact of lighting in concurrent VLC design

• Modeling of indoor optical propagation

1. •UVC atmospheric scattering channel modeling
   

2. •Modeling of noise in optical wireless communications
   

3. •Underwater optical channel modeling and system design
   

4. •Space-based laser communications modeling
   

5. •Information theory, capacity of optical wireless links
   

Data transmission techniques

1. •Modulation, coding and detection for IM/DD
   

2. •Coherent wireless optical links
   

3. •Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) optical techniques
   

4. •VLC link duplexing and multiple access techniques
   

• UVC range/rate/error performance tradeoffs

1. •Fading mitigation in atmospheric channels
   

  

co-located with Globecom 2013, Atlanta GA USA.

co-Chairs

Maite Brandt-Pearce (U. Virginia, USA)

Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)

Murat Uysal (Özyeğin University, Turkey)

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.

Optical wireless networking

1. •Wavelength planning in optical communication techniques
   

2. •Optical wireless communications for next generation wireless networks
   

3. •Centralized and distributed optical wireless network designs
   

• Optical wireless sensor networks

1. •Handover techniques
   

OWC application studies

1. •Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile optical communication
   

2. •Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic light optical communication
   

3. •LED pointing, acquisition and tracking in mobile scenarios
   

• Navigation and positioning using OWC

1. •Test beds, field trials, smart lighting applications
   

2. •Optical wireless sensor networks
   

Green OWC systems

1. •Energy efficient, VLC enabled luminaries

Technical Program  Committee

Luis Alves (U. de Aveiro, PT)

Jean Armstrong (Monash U., AUS)

Shlomi Arnon (Ben-Gurion U of the Negev, ISR) 

Aniceto Belmonte (Tech. U. Catalonia, SP)

Salah Bourennane (Ecole Centrale Marseille, FR)

Julian Cheng (U. British Columbia, CA)

Neda Cvijetic (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA)

Christopher Davis (U. Maryland, USA)

Ivan Djordjevic (U. Arizona, USA)

Hany Elgala (Boston U., USA)

Jaafar Elmirghani (U. Leeds, UK)

Fary Ghassemlooy (Northumbia U., UK)

Roger Green (U. Warwick, UK)

Harald Haas (U. Edinburgh, UK)

Joseph Kahn (Stanford U., USA)

Thomas Kamalakis (U. Athens, GR)

George Karagiannidis (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, GR)

Mohamad-Ali Khalighi (Ecole Centrale Marseille, FR)

Valencia Koomson (Tufts U., USA)

Jae Kyun Kwon (Yeungnam U., KR)

Lutz Lampe (U. British Columbia, CA)

Klaus-Dieter Langer (Franhofer HHI, DE)

Tiffany Jing Li (Lehigh U., USA)

Thomas Little (Boston U., USA)

Francisco Lopez Hernandez (CeDINt-UPM, SP)

Stefan Mangold (Disney Research, CH)

Mohammad Noshad (U. Viginia, USA)

Dominic O’Brien (Oxford U., UK)

Brian Sadler (Army Research Lab, USA)

Robert Schober (U. Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)

Giorgio Tosi Beleffi (ISCTI, IT)

Zhengyuan Xu (Tsinghua U., CN)

Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya U., JP)

Stanislav Zvanovec (Czech Tech. U., CZ)

Important Dates:

1. • Deadline for workshop paper submission: July 7th, 2013
   

2. • Acceptance/rejection announcement: September 4, 2013
   

3. • Author Registration Deadline: September 15, 2013
   

4. • Final workshop papers due: October 1, 2013

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Monday December 9, 2013