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
- VL
and UV communication system design perspectives
- 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.
