Uses and Applications in Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications
A special issue of Signals (ISSN 2624-6120).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 260
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wireless optical communications, particularly visible light communications (VLC), have emerged as a bandwidth-abundant, secure, and cost-effective communications technology complementing the existing radio frequency (RF) systems or even replacing them for some indoor and outdoor applications, such as conference and exhibition halls, office rooms, trains and airplane cabins, etc. For this reason, visible light communications (VLC) appear to be a straightforward solution able to provide numerous technical and financial advantages.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather uses and applications in short-range optical wireless communications. Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original contributions and reviews for this Special Issue. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Underwater VLC;
- Industrial applications of VLC;
- Camera-based VLC systems;
- Physical layer security using VLC;
- Network topologies;
- Organic polymer based-VLC systems;
- Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA);
- Standardization of VLC/LiFi/OWPAN;
- Applications of optical wireless communications;
- e-health applications of LiFi;
- IoT applications of optical wireless personal area networks;
- Automotive visible light communications.
Prof. Dr. Pablo González
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- visible light communications
- organic polymer based-VLC systems
- industrial VLC applications
- outdoor VLC applications
- advanced VLC applications
- underwater VLC
- camera-based VLC Systems
- automotive visible light communications
- indoor VLC applications
- IoT applications of optical wireless personal area networks
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