Agenda-5th OWC meeting

Call for papers. Information on paper topics.
Title/Speakers

8:30

 Welcome and Program Overview
Thomas Little (Boston University, USA), Erneston Ciaramella (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy), Steve Hranilovic (McMaster Unversity, Canada), Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Session: Detection and Imaging

8:40-9:00AM

 Linear Receivers for Optical Wireless Scattering Communication with Multiple Photon Detectors
Chen Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

9:00-9:20am

 Angle Diversity Receiver for Indoor MIMO Visible Light Communications
Asanka Nuwanpriya (University of South Australia, Australia); Siu-Wai Ho (University of South Australia, Australia); Chung Shue Chen (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France)

9:20-9:40am

 Motion Modeling of Mobile Transmitter for Image Sensor Based I2V-VLC, V2I-VLC, and V2V-VLC
Masayuki Kinosita (Nagoya University, Japan); Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan); Hiraku Okada (Nagoya University, Japan); Toshiaki Fujii (Nagoya University, Japan); Shintaro Arai (National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College, Japan); Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan); Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

9:40-10:00am

 Optimum Diversity Combining Techniques for Visible Light Communication Systems
Anagnostis Tsiatmas (Eindhoven University of Technology & Philips Research, The Netherlands); Frans MJ Willems (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Stan Baggen (Philips, The Netherlands)

10:00-10:20am

 Experimental Multiuser Mobile Optical Communication Using Compressive Sensing
Javier Perez-Ramirez (New Mexico State University, USA); Elam Curry (New Mexico State University, USA); Deva K. Borah (New Mexico State University, USA); Jose Maria Hinojo (University of Seville, Spain)

10:20-10:40am

 Break
Session: FSO Systems

10:40-11:00

 Adaptive Multi-Rate Designs for Hybrid FSO/RF Systems over Fading Channels
Vuong Mai (The University of Aizu, Japan); Anh T. Pham (The University of Aizu, Japan)

11:00-11:20am

 Efficient Direct Detection of M-PAM Sequences with Implicit CSI Acquisition for The FSO System
Tianyu Song (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Pooi-Yuen Kam (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

11:20-11:40am

 Performance Metrics and Design Parameters for an FSO Communications Link Based on Multiplexing of Multiple Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams
Guodong Xie (University of Southern California, USA); Long Li (University of Southern California, USA); Yongxiong Ren (University of Southern California, USA); Hao Huang (University of Southern California, USA); Yan Yan (University of Southern California, USA); Nisar Ahmed (University of Southern California, USA); Zhe Zhao (University of Southern California, USA); Martin Lavery (University of Glasgow, USA); Moshe Tur (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Alan Willner (University of Southern California, USA)

11:40am-12:00pm

 Resilient Topology design for Free Space Optical Cellular Backhaul Networking
Yuan Li (Lund University, Sweden); Nikolaos Pappas (Linköping University, Sweden); Vangelis Angelakis (Linköping University, Sweden); Michal Pióro (Warsaw University of Technology & Lund University, Poland); Di Yuan (Linköping University, Sweden)

12:00-12:20pm

 Wavelength Dependence of a Fiber-Bundle Based FSO Link
Peter LoPresti (Tulsa University, USA); M. Fahd Babelli (University of Oklahoma, USA); Hazem Refai (Oklahoma University, USA); Nathan Hutchins (University of Tulsa, USA); Steven Kohrmann (University of Tulsa, USA)

12:20 – 1:20pm

 Lunch

1:20-1:50pm

Indoor Visible Light Positioning: State of the Art and Future Trends

Keynote Speaker:Jean Armstrong, Monash University, Australia
Session: Applications

1:50-2:10pm

 Fast Handover Mechanism for High Data Rate Ground-to-Train Free-Space Optical Communication System
Kosuke Mori (Keio University, Japan); Masanori Terada (Keio University, Japan); Ryoji Murakami (Keio University, Japan); Daisuke Yamaguchi (Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan); Kazuki Nakamura (Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan); Kunitake Kaneko (Keio University, Japan); Fumio Teraoka (Keio University, Japan); Shinichiro Haruyama (Keio University, Japan)

2:10-2:30pm

 Secured Communications-Zone Multiple Input Multiple Output Visible Light Communications
Hoa Le Minh (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Anh T. Pham (The University of Aizu, Japan); Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom); Andrew Burton (Northumbria University & Northumbria University, United Kingdom)

2:30-2:50pm

 10 Gbit/s bidirectional optical wireless communication module for docking devices
Michael Faulwasser (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems & Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Frank Deicke (Fraunhofer Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme, Germany); Tobias Schneider (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems, Germany)

2:50-3:10pm

 From Sound to Sight: Using Audio Processing to enable Visible Light Communication
Stefan Schmid (ETH Zurich & Disney Research, Switzerland); Daniel D. Schwyn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Kaan Akşit (Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland); Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland); Thomas R. Gross (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Stefan Mangold (Disney Research, Switzerland)

3:10-3:30pm

 Securing Visible Light Communications via Friendly Jamming
Ayman Mostafa (University of British Columbia, Canada); Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)

3:30-4:00pm

 Break

4:00-4:30pm

 Keynote: Zhengyuan (Daniel) Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
The Chinese Visible Light Communications Alliance (C-VLCA)
Shinichiro Haruyama, Keio University, Japan
The Japanese Visible Light Communications Association (VLCA)
Session: Sources and Systems

4:30-4:50pm

 Multi-Wavelength Visible Light Communication System Design
Pankil M Butala (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA); Hany Elgala (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA); Payman Zarkesh-Ha (University of New Mexico, USA); Thomas DC Little (Boston University & NSF Smart Lighting ERC, USA)

4:50-5:10pm

 Imaging-MIMO Visible Light Communication System using µLEDs and Integrated Receiver
Sujan Rajbhandari (University of Oxford, United Kingdom); Hyunchae Chun (Oxford University, United Kingdom); Grahame Faulkner (University of Oxford, United Kingdom); Katherine Cameron (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Aravind Jalajakumari (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Robert Henderson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Dobroslav A. Tsonev (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Muhammad Ijaz (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Zhe Chen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Enyuan Xie (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Jonathan McKendry (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Johannes Herrnsdorf (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Erdan Gu (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Martin Dawson (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Dominic O’Brien (Oxford University, United Kingdom)

5:10-5:30pm

 Si Integrated Optical Phased Array for Efficient Beam Steering in Optical Wireless Communications
Ke Wang (University of Melbourne, Australia); Yang Wang (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Shitao Gao (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Christina Lim (University of Melbourne, Australia); Stan Skafidas (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Kamal Alameh (Centre for MicroPhotonic Systems, Australia)

5:30-5:50pm

 Performance Comparison for Illumination and Visible Light Communication System using Buck Converters
Xiong Deng (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands); Yan Wu (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Kumar Arulandu (Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Guofu Zhou (Philips Research, The Netherlands); Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research, The Netherlands)

5:50-6:10pm

 Roundtable: Chairs

6:10pm

 End

7:00

 Dinner