Display-Based Optical Wireless Communication for IoT and 6G
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: signal processing for wireless communications; optical wireless communications; electromagnetic nanocommunications; molecular communications; 5G and 6G communications
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: electromagnetic nanonetworks; molecular communications; optical camera communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in screen/display-based optical wireless communication (OWC), a rapidly evolving subfield of visible light communication (VLC). With the proliferation of high-brightness displays, LED panels, and camera/sensor-equipped devices, display-based OWC enables data transmission through screens to photodetectors or cameras, offering low-cost, license-free, and EMI-resilient solutions. This paradigm is well-suited for emerging smart environments, human-centric interfaces, IoT networks, and secure short-range communication.
Recent progress includes modulation and coding techniques tailored for display-to-camera links, machine vision-assisted demodulation, and integration of such systems with edge AI and embedded platforms. Moreover, the synergy of OWC with intelligent surfaces, AR/VR displays, and 6G use-cases is driving new research opportunities.
This Special Issue invites original contributions and review articles that address fundamental research, novel applications, and enabling technologies in display-based OWC systems.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Display–camera communication and screen-to-sensor links;
- Visible light communication using LED displays and signage;
- Screen-based VLC for IoT and smart devices;
- Modulation, coding, and synchronization for visual MIMO and OCC;
- Integration with AR/VR, smart homes, and human-machine interfaces;
- Low-power and energy-efficient display-based transmitters;
- Channel modeling and performance evaluation;
- Display-based OWC in 6G and next-generation networks.
Prof. Dr. Sung-Yoon Jung
Dr. Pankaj Singh
Dr. Byungwook Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- visible light communication (VLC)
- visual MIMO
- screen–camera communication
- optical camera communication (OCC)
- display-based optical wireless transmission
- 6G
- Internet of Things (IoT)
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