Contributions include but are not limited to the following:

• • All organic visible light communications (VLCs)
  • Channel modelling and characterisation, channel capacity analysis
  • Diversity techniques, dimming, data communications and localisation in VLCs
  • Free space optics (indoor, outdoor and under water) – Last meter to last mile
  • Hybrid RF/OWC technology, MIMO for OWC
  • Hybrid IR/VLC technology
  • Modelling of various noises in optical wireless communications
  • Modulation, coding and detection schemes
  • Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile optical communication
  • Novel (photonic) devices and components
  • OWC networks: architecture, PHY/MAC design, cross-layer design etc.
  • Applications of OWC (VLC, FSO) for: Device-to-device communications, e-Health, e-Commerce, etc., Intelligent transportation systems (e.g. vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-traffic communications, trains, planes, etc.), Inter and intra chip communications, Internet-of-Things, Medical, Space, Manufacturing, IoT and wireless sensor networks, Underwater, Indoor GPS
  • Next generation wireless networks
  • OWC transceiver design and optimization
  • Ultraviolet communications.