Wireless Optical Communication, Positioning, Sensing for 6G and Beyond
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 1562
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wireless optical signals have several advantages over radio frequency signals, such as strong directionality and unobvious diffraction. These properties make it possible to realize high-speed optical communication links, accurate positioning systems, and high-resolution sensing systems. However, the optical signals have not been fully exploited like the RF signals, as optical signals are vulnerable to blocking. Novel 6G applications require ultra-high-speed data transmission and accurate sensing, but it would be unacceptably expensive and inefficient to achieve the targeted performance only by increasing the size of the antenna array or increasing the complexity of signals. Therefore, wireless optical communication would become an essential building block of the future communication network infrastructure due to their ultra-high bandwidth, long communication distance, simple modulation and demodulation, and high data privacy.
This topic focuses on the high-speed communication, accurate sensing, and high-precision positioning for massive nodes in 6G communication scenarios, and carries out theoretical and practical research by using the propagation characteristics of the wireless optical signals. Related topics include but are not limited to: visible light communication, free space optical communication, infrared optical communication, visible light positioning, infrared light positioning, wireless optical sensing, optical communication devices, optical channel modeling and analysis, hybrid RF, and optical communication.
This Special Issue aims to explore the applications of optical wireless communications. It will present the latest research and technology development as well as system implementation in the fields of optical communication, sensing, and positioning, encouraging joint efforts from both academia and industry.
Dr. Bingcheng Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wireless optical communication
- visible light communication
- visible light positioning
- wireless optical sensing
- visible light positioning
