WS-11: 7th IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC’17)


Workshop Program

Friday, December 8, 08:55 - 09:15
WELCOME – Introductory remarks (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202)

Chair: Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)


Friday, December 8, 09:15 - 10:30
Session 1 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202):
Chair: Vineetha Kalavally (Monash University, Malaysia)
  • Experimental MIMO VLC Systems Using TricolorLED Transmitters and Receivers
Shangbin Li, Boyang Huang and Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
  • Improvement of Color Detection by Regression Analysis of Visual-MIMO System
Partha Pratim Banik, Rappy Saha and Ki-Doo Kim (Kookmin University, Korea)
  • White Light Constrained Multi-Primary Modulation for Visible Light Communication
Ravinder Singh (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stefano Pergoloni (La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Timothy O'Farrell (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gaetano Scarano (Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy); John David (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
  • A Novel Method of Integrating Visible Light Communications within LED Drivers
Warren Pawlikowski, Mehdi Narimani and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
  • Multiple-Symbol Detection for Practical SPAD-based VLC System with Experimental Proof
Chao Wang (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center Zhengzhou China, P.R. China); Hongyi Yu and Yijun Zhu (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center, P.R. China); Wang Tao (Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China); Yawei Ji (National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological R&D Center, P.R. China)


10.30 AM: Morning Coffee Break


Friday, December 8, 11:00 - 11:30
Keynote 1(Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202)
Chair: Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)
 
Keynote: LiFi – Use cases and industry adoption challenges
Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Cisco


 
Friday, December 8, 11:30 - 12:30
Session 2 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202):

Chair: Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)
  • A Communication Method for Asynchronous Visible Light Communication based Image Sensor
Wataru Kihara and Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
  • Flexible Synchronization in Optical Camera Communication with On-off Keying
Yoshifumi Shiraki (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan); Takashi G Sato (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Yutaka Kamamoto (NTT Communication Science Labs., Japan); Takehiro Moriya (NTT, Japan)
  • Symbol Rate and Timing Estimation for Image-Sensor VLC by a Cycle Pattern of Received Symbols
Tomoki Kondo, Takuya Zinda and Wataru Chujo (Meijo University, Japan)
  • Resource Allocation for Outdoor Visible Light Communications with Energy Harvesting Capabilities
Amr Abdelhady (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Osama Amin (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Anas Chaaban (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)


12:30 PM: Lunch Break


Friday, December 8, 14:00 - 14:45
Session 3 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202):
Chair: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
  • Indoor Visible Light Localization Algorithm with Multi-Directional PD Array
Lixuan Wang and Caili Guo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
  • Visible Light Positioning using an Aperture and a Quadrant Photodiode
Stefanie Cincotta, Adrian Neild, Cuiwei He and Jean Armstrong (Monash University, Australia)
  • Performance Evaluation of Downlink Cooperative Multipoint Joint Transmission in LiFi Systems
Cheng Chen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))


Friday, December 8, 14:45 - 15:30
Panel Discussion (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202)
Chair: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
 
Prof Takaya Yamazato - Nagayo University, Japan; Dr Vineetha Kalavally - Intelligent Lighting Laboratory, Monash University, Malaysia; David Whitfield, IOL Technologies Pty, Ltd.


15.30 PM: Coffee Break


Friday, December 8, 16:00 - 16:30
Keynote 2(Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202)
Chair: Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)
 
Keynote: Modulation and Coding for Visible Light Communication with Image sensors
Koji Kamakura, Chiba Institute of Technology


 
Friday, December 8, 16:30 - 17:15
Session 4 (Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202):
Chair: Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)
  • HMM-based Signal Characterization and Detection for VLC under Weak Illuminance
Xiaona Liu, Chen Gong, Shangbin Li and Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
  • MMSE based spatial dimming scheme for multiuser MISO VLC systems
Zhen Feng, Caili Guo and Yang Yang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Zabih Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chunyan Feng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China)
  • Performance Analysis of Hybrid FSO/RF Transmission for DF Relaying System
Shubha Sharma (NTU Singapore, India); A S Madhukumar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Swaminathan Ramabadran (Nanyang Technological University Singapore, India); Jing Sheng Chau (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

 
Friday, December 8, 17:15 - 17:30
OWC - Concluding Remarks(Room: Orchid Main Ballroom 4202)

 
Keynote speakers




Sarav Radhakrishnan
, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Title: LiFi – Use cases and industry adoption challenges

Sarav Radhakrishnan is a 18 year Cisco veteran whose worked on a number of products and solutions during his tenure in Cisco. Sarav is an expert in the enterprise security space. Sarav is also an architecture lead for the highly profitable catalyst switching portfolio while also being a linchpin in setting product and technology direction across a wide variety of cross-cutting initiatives in Cisco. He is also a lead investigator in Cisco’s recent launch of encrypted traffic analytics. He has worked on a number of innovations across the enterprise portfolio. He’s current research and development interests include security, wireless, LiFi, virtualisation and machine learning.



Koji Kamakura, Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology
Title: Modulation and Coding for Visible Light Communication with Image sensors

Koji Kamakura (S'99–M'02) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1997, 1999, and 2002, respectively. He is a Professor at Department of Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan. From 2002 to 2006, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.  From 2006 to 2015, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan. He was a Visiting Professor at Heudiasyc, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, from April 2013 to March 2014. He was a Visiting Scientist at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2003. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Special Researcher of Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion for Science, for Japanese Junior Scientists. His research interests include optical communication theory and system analysis. He is a Member of the IEICE. He received the 14th Telecom System Technology Award for Students from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 1999 and the Ericsson Young Scientist Award in 2002.