Optical Wireless Communications and Networking: A Pathway towards 6G
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 6790
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Interests: free-space optics (FSO); wireless communications; physical-layer security; device-to-device communications; optical wireless communications; cyber security and resilience
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, wireless communications have significantly evolved due to the advanced technology of smartphones, portable devices, and the growth of Internet of Things, e-Health, e-Commerce, intelligent transportation systems, and social networking. Optical wireless communications (OWCs) offer many advantages such as free license, wide bandwidth, inherent security, and no interference, and represent a complementary technology to radio frequency technologies, particularly in the emerging 5G-based wireless communication networks and beyond. The widespread deployment of OWC systems, namely infrared, visible light communications (VLC), and free-space optical (FSO) communications, is facing a number challenges, such as safety regulation, device performance, compatibility with existing systems, the killer application, and complexity. Moreover, in the last decade we have seen a growing trend in research and development activities in the emerging field of OWC, covering VLC and FSO, including underwater communications and applications in healthcare and the oil and gas industry—thus the ongoing need for more research and development to address the above and beyond.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Airborne FSO systems (e.g., UAV, aircraft, satellite);
- Chip-scale optical communications;
- Coding, modulation, and signal processing for optical systems;
- Cross-layer design of optical networks;
- Energy-efficient optical wireless networks;
- Fiber access networks and optical wireless backhaul;
- Flexible-grid elastic optical networks;
- Hybrid millimeter-wave (MMW)/FSO outdoor systems;
- Hybrid radio frequency (RF)/OWC technology;
- Integration of VLC with power-line communication (PLC), Ethernet, and WiFi;
- Industry developments and deployments in optical communications;
- Intelligent optical control plane;
- Lasers and photonic components;
- Lighting-constrained VLCs and networks;
- Next-generation optical transport systems;
- Optical camera communication;
- Optical interconnects for high-performance computing;
- Optical vehicular networks;
- Optical wireless modulation and signal processing;
- Opto-electronics for terabit networking;
- Protection, restoration, and security in optical networks;
- Quantum photonic networks;
- Techno-economic issues in optical networks;
- Underwater optical communications;
- WDM optical networks.
Dr. Imran Ansari
Guest Editor
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