As
part of the IEEE Communications Society’s premier international conference
GLOBECOM 2010, the 2010
IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) will be held on 10
December 2010, in conjunction with the GLOBECOM in Miami, Florida, USA.
Traditionally, OWC relies on high power solid-state infrared lasers for
medium-to-long range optical communications. Recently there have been
tremendous advances in light emitting diodes, laser diodes, and
photodiodes in visible light and ultraviolet wavelengths. Those
semiconductor optical devices provide huge potentials for short/medium
range wireless communication applications at small size and low cost.
This
workshop aims to bring together researchers and engineers in emerging
wireless visible light (VL) and ultraviolet (UV) communications, in
addition to infrared (IR) communications or free space optics (FSO). It
will primarily focus on short-to-medium range optical wireless
communications, from indoor to outdoor, from atmosphere to terrestrial and
underwater. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited
to:
OWC
Device and Link Level
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Communication component design and optical device
characterization
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Optical source radiation safety in communication design
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Noise modeling for optical wireless systems
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Modeling and characterization of indoor diffused and reflected light
beams
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Atmospheric scattering, absorption, and turbulent channel
modeling
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Underwater optical channel modeling and link design
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Beam diverging and concentrating techniques
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Optical/Electrical transceiver design, optimization and
integration
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Modulation, coding and detection techniques adaptive to device and link
properties
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MIMO, diversity, imaging receiver and advanced signal processing
techniques
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Other link performance enhancement techniques
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Pointing, acquisition and tracking in mobile
scenarios
OWC
System and Network Level
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VL and UV communication system design perspectives
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UV communication range/rate/BER performance
tradeoffs
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New results of IR communication
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Link duplexing and channel access techniques
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Wavelength planning and spatial reuse
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Integration of lighting with VL communication (VLC)
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Centralized and distributed OWC network designs
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Coexistence and interoperability of VLC with other communication
networks
OWC
Applications
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Geolocation, navigation and sensor networks
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Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile
communication
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Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic light
communication
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Next generation wireless networks
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Mobile ad hoc networks
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Underwater communication and sensor networks
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Inter-satellite FSO links and deep space optical
wireless
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Ground-to-air and air-to-air FSO links
Important
Dates
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Submission due: July 11, 2010 (Sunday), at 23:59
EST (New York Time) (updated)
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Decision notification due: August 13, 2010 (Friday)
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Camera-ready and registration due: Aug 31, 2010
(Tuesday)
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Workshop date: December 10, 2010 (Friday)
Submission
Guidelines
IEEE
OWC Workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area
of optical wireless communications. Prospective authors are encouraged to
submit an IEEE conference style paper up to 5 pages to this workshop
(including all
text, figures, and references) through EDAS submission system (indirect
link http://www.edas.info/ or direct
link http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8702),
but one additional page is allowed with additional publication fee. (If
any problem
during submission is encountered, please contact: dxu@ee.ucr.edu). An accepted paper must
be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper must be
presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will
result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings
and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the
IEEE GLOBECOM proceedings and IEEE digital library. GLOBECOM has the right
to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE
digital library.
