Light emitting diodes (LEDs) have achieved overwhelming applications in traffic application, flat panel displays, and illumination due to advantages such as long lifetime, high efficiency, cost effectiveness, small size and low power consumption, compared with incandescent or fluorescent lamp. In recent years, there has been constantly increasing interest in visible light communication (VLC) motivated by the dramatic development of LED technologies and the scarce spectrum resources. Features like worldwide usage, cost effectiveness, high brightness, larger bandwidth compared with other typical radio frequency (RF) based devices make VLC the most promising candidate for simultaneous illumination and communications. VLC can be used for many applications such as indoor information network, ubiquitous three-dimensional positioning system, and specific security network. As one of the cross-border technologies, VLC will cover the research area from wireless optical communication, electronics, secondary optical design for light emitting and receiving, auto-focus system, MAC protocol and network protocol, module level and system level integration. The scope of the special issue will include excellent review articles and original contributions on both technologies and applications covering the rapid advances and tremendous breadth of this emerging area.
 

SCOPE

The goal of this special issue is to present a collection of articles focusing on the state of art in visible light communications. We call papers of both academic and industrial contributions, covering various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following:

• New materials, components and devices for LED, PIN and APD
• Specific integrated chip for VLC systems
• Channel modeling and characterization of VLC systems
• Coding for VLC systems
• New modulation methods for VLC systems
• Efficient signal processing algorithms for VLC systems
• Automatic focus and optic antenna design for VLC systems
• MIMO technologies in VLC systems
• Network protocol and network architecture for VLC
• Practical applications with VLC system
• Security issues in VLC
• Standardization activities related to VLC
• Propagation limitations of VLC systems

SUBMISSIONS

For manuscript preparation and submission, please follow the guidelines in the Author Guidelines and Paper Submission Guidelines section at the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine web page,http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag. A paper should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and its abstract should have no more than 250 words. Any submission that fails to comply with the guidelines will be rejected without review. Papers must be submitted in PDF format to the Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm.
 

IMPORTANT DATES

• Manuscript Submission: September 1, 2014
• Notification of Acceptance: January 1, 2015
• Final Manuscript Due: February 1, 2015
• Publication Date: April 2015

GUEST EDITORS

Prof. Nan Chi
Fudan University, China
nanchi@fudan.edu.cn

Prof. Harald Haas
University of Edinburgh, UK
h.haas@ed.ac.uk

Prof. Mohsen Kavehrad,
Pennsylvania State University, USA.
mkavehrad@psu.edu
 
Professor Thomas D. C. Little
Boston University, USA
tdcl@bu.edu
 
Associate Professor Xin-Lin Huang
Tongji University, China.
 xlhuang@tongji.edu.cn