Visible Light Communication, Networking, and Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, we have seen a growing interest in the potential use of visible light communications (VLC), which offer new opportunities by simply using white light-emitting-diode (LED)-based lighting installations. LEDs have longer life expectancy, higher tolerance to humidity, and lower power consumption compared with incandescent and fluorescent lights. Recent advances in solid-state technologies have made available highly energy-efficient LEDs for illumination, data communication, indoor localization, and sensing.

This Special Issue therefore aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of VLC systems.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Light-emitting diode (LED)–Internet of Things (IoT) communications
• High-data-rate VLC for the last-meter access networks
• Optical camera communications (OCC) with VLC
• Line-of-sight and non-line of sight VLC
• Car-to-car and infrastructure-to-car VLC
• VLC for outdoor applications
• VLC for localization/positioning
• Transmitters, receivers, and equalizations for VLC
• Multiuser VLC networking, advance modulation techniques
• Underwater VLC
• Hybrid WiFi/VLC, IR/VLC, and mmW/VLC
• VLC for sensing
• VLC in medical and manufacturing

Prof. Stanislav Zvanovec
Prof. Zabih Ghassemlooy
Prof. Rafael Perez Jimenez
Dr. Luis Nero Alves
Guest Editors

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