Workshop Program

Sunday, December 9, 08:40 - 08:45
OWC - Introductory Remarks
Chair: Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)

Sunday, December 9, 08:45 - 10:00
Session 1: Optical Camera Communications (OCC) Technologies in Visible Light Communication
Chair: Zhengyuan (Daniel) Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

• Modeling Differential Screen-Camera Data Transmission for Parallel Video Presentation
  Christian Brauers, Ruediger Kays, Johannes Klein and Jianshuang Xu (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
• Rolling-Shutter-Based QPSK by Spatial Luminance Distribution for Optical Camera Communication, 
  Wataru Chujo and Masahiro Kinoshita (Meijo University, Japan)
• Parallel Transmission Using M-point DFT for Image-Sensor-Based Visible Light Communicatio, 
  Syuto Kibe and Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan); Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Performance Evaluation of Precoded Pulse Width Modulation for Image Sensor Communicatio, 
  Satoshi Kamegawa, Masayuki Kinosita, Takaya Yamazato, Hiraku Okada and Toshiaki Fujii (Nagoya University, Japan); Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan); Tomohiro Yendo (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan); Shintaro Arai (Okayama University of Science, Japan)
• Indoor Visible Light Positioning with Centimeter Accuracy Based on A Commercial Smartphone Camera
  Jiaojiao Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chen Gong (USTC, P.R. China); Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

10:00 - 10:30: Morning Coffee Break

Sunday, December 9, 10:30 - 11:45
Session 2: Modulation and Coding in VLC
Chair: Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

• Study of Raptor Codes for Indoor Mobile VLC Channels
  Yuan Wang, Nan Wu and Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
• OFDM-Based Spatial Modulation for Optical Wireless Communications
  Iman Tavakkolnia (University of Edinburgh & LiFi Research and Development Centre, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Anil Yesilkaya (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
• Ordered Sequence Detection and Robust Design for Pulse Interval Modulation
  Shuaishuai Guo, Ki-Hong Park and Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
• Performance Evaluation of Generalized Optical Spatial Modulation with Dimming Support
  Thai-Chien Bui (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Ravinder Singh (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Timothy O'Farrell (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mauro Biagi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
• Low PAPR Coding Scheme for Uniform Illumination in MIMO VLC
  Uday Thummaluri, Abhinav Kumar and Lakshmi Prasad Natarajan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

11:45 - 13:30 PM: Lunch Break

Sunday, December 9, 13:30 - 14:45
Session 3: Emerging VLC systems and its evaluation
Chair: Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)

• Optimized Geometrically Shaped 16QAM in underwater visible light communication
  Fangchen Hu, Peng Zou, Fumin Wang, Xingbang Wu and Nan Chi (Fudan University, P.R. China)
• Free-space Optical Communication System for Industrial Vehicles Using Two Types of Optical Fibers
  Masakazu Ishibashi (Murata Machinery, ltd., Japan); Hiroshi Takizuka and Shinichiro Haruyama (Keio University, Japan)
• Downlink Optimization in Cloud Radio Access Networks with Hybrid RF/FSO Fronthaul
  Ayman Mostafa and Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Indoor Localization Using Three dimensional Multi-PDs Receiver Based on RSS
  Yinghao Liu (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Ki-Hong Park (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia); Boon S. Ooi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
• Underwater Visible Light Communications in Cascaded Gamma-Gamma Turbulenc
  Mohammed Elamassie (Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Turkey); Sadiq M. Sait (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Murat Uysal (Ozyegin University, Turkey)

14:45 - 15:15: Coffee Break

Sunday, December 9, 15:15 - 16:30
Session 4: Technologies for LED nonlinearity
Chair: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)

• Nonlinearity Mitigation for VLC with an Artificial Neural Network Based Equalizer
  Xiangyu Li and Qian Gao (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Chen Gong (USTC, P.R. China); Zhengyuan Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
• Efficient Amplitude Modulator and Ripple Canceller for Visible Light Communication
  Kumar Arulandu (Signify, The Netherlands); Xiong Deng (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
• On the capacity and optimal signal constellations for SISO-VLC systems
  Linqiong Jia, Ming Chen and Nuo Huang (Southeast University, P.R. China); Feng Shu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
• Efficiency of Power Loading Strategies for Visible Light Communication
  Shokoufeh Mardanikorani and Xiong Deng (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
• Novel Post-distortion to Mitigate LED Nonlinearity in High-speed Visible Light Communication
  Xiong Deng and Shokoufeh Mardanikorani (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Kumar Arulandu (Signify, The Netherlands); Jean-Paul Linnartz (Philips Research, The Netherlands)

Sunday, December 9, 16:30 - 16:35
OWC - Concluding Remarks
Chair: Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)