The VLCS’17 program has been published on the workshop website.
VLCS’17 Workshop Program
9:00am - 9:15am, Welcome by the chairs
9:15am - 10:15am, Keynote by Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University)
Title: Elements of Visible Light Communication Research Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University)
10:15am - 10:45am, Coffee break
10:45am - 12:00am, Session I: Novel Architectures
Battery-free Visible Light Sensing
Ambuj Varshney (Uppsala University, Sweden); Andreas Soleiman (Uppsala University, Sweden); Luca Mottola (RISE SICS and Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Thiemo Voigt (RISE SICS and Uppsala University, Sweden)
Roaming in Connecting Light: Practical Visible Light Communication Leveraging LED Sensing
Yanbing Yang (Nanyang Technological University); Shuya Ding (Nanyang Technological University); Jie Hao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics); Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University)
SeedLight: hardening LED-to-Camera communication with RLC
Alexis Duque (Rtone, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI); Razvan Stanica (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI); Herve Rivano (Univ Lyon, Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI); Adrien Desportes (Rtone, Lyon, France)
12:00pm - 1:30pm, Lunch
1:30am - 3:00pm, Session II: Thoughts
Driving Visible Light Communications Towards the Tipping Point for Broad Scale Adoption (invited paper)
Thomas D C Little (Boston University);Michael Rahaim (Boston University)
Position: Augmenting Inertial Tracking with Light
Zhao Tian (Dartmouth College); Yu-Lin Wei (National Taiwan University); Xi Xiong (Dartmouth College); Wei-Nin Chang (National Taiwan University); Hsin-Mu Tsai (National Taiwan University); Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University); Changxi Zheng (Columbia University); Xia Zhou (Dartmouth College)
Position: Health Effects in LED-based Communication Systems and Possible Mitigations
Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute)
Position: DroneVLC: Visible Light Communication for Aerial Vehicular Networking
Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University)
3:00pm - 4:00pm, Break and Demos
4:00am - 4:50pm, Session III: Performance
A Performance Comparison of Different Cost Functions for RSS-Based Visible Light Positioning Under the Presence of Reflections
David Plets (imec-Ghent University); Abdulkadir Eryildrim; Sander Bastiaens (imec-Ghent University); Nobby Stevens (KULeuven-DraMCo); Luc Martens (imec-Ghent University); Wout Joseph (imec-Ghent University)
A Comparison of Load Balancing Techniques for Hybrid LiFi/RF Networks (invited paper)
Yunlu Wang (University of Edinburgh); Harald Haas (University of Edinburgh)
4:50am - 6:00pm, Panel on "Hybrid VLC and Radio Communication: Potential, Challenges and Solutions for Coexistence"
Visible light communication (VLC) has the potential for alleviating the radio wireless spectrum crunch problem that is evident with the exploding demand for mobile data communication through radio frequency (RF) technologies. While VLC presents a unique set of advantages over RF such as large unlicensed bandwidth, off-the-shelf hardware, yet, it suffers from fundamental limitations that are not evident or easily addressed in RF communication, such as the line-of-sight requirement, unidirectional communication, limited resilience to mobility and high energy budget. These complementary set of advantages and limitations present opportunities for VLC and RF communication to complement one another and coexist in next generation wireless communication systems. To understand the potential for VLC and RF technologies to complement and coexist as a hybrid technology, this panel will bring together experts radio and optical wireless communication to discuss the feasibility, the challenges and pointers for the community to realize VLC-RF hybrid wireless communication in next generation systems.