New Technologies in Visible Light Communications

Dear Colleagues,

Optical wireless communication (OWC) that includes visible light communication (VLC) or light-fidelity (LiFi) and free space optical (FSO) communication has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in a number of applications, such as smart industry, smart cities, smart transport, smart connected buildings/homes, and autonomous vehicles. LiFi and FSO communication are envisioned to implement and support 5G wireless networks. However, there are several main research challenges within these communication technologies, including the need to achieve high data rates in real life applications, ubiquitous connectivity, shadowing and co-channel interference effects, dimming capabilities, machine-to-machine connectivity, the need to improve optical front ends including color converters and different noise factors such as turbulence and fog and cost of systems, etc. In this Special Issue, we accept original research and review articles on new technologies in optical wireless communications, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Visible light communication (VLC)/LiFi;
• Advanced modulation schemes;
• Optical channel modeling and noise mitigation techniques;
• Vehicle-to-vehicle communication;
• Localization and positioning;
• Spatial diversity/optical MIMO;
• Optical satellite communication;
• Optical wireless communication for smart cities and medical applications;
• Machine-to-machine communication;
• VLC-based IoT;
• Hybrid RF/FSO links;
• Organic optoelectronics devices;
• New materials for color converters.

Dr. Muhammad Ijaz
Dr. Tariq Sajjad
Dr. Chen Chen
Prof. Dr. Manav Bhatnagar
Guest Editors

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