Recent Advances in the Convergence of Wireless and Optical Technologies
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 58
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Digital Systems, University of Peloponnese, Valioti's building, Kladas, 23100 Sparta, Greece
3. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly, Ampliani area, 35100 Lamia, Greece
Interests: convergence of new generation optical and wireless networks; wireless broadband networking; wireless channel modeling; 5G standardization; mobile cellular networks; small cells/backhaul design and evaluation; antennas and propagation; microwave/RF/EMC measurements and characterization; satellite networks and telemetry systems; IoT and smart home/cities; body area networks and smart/mobile health; biomedical/biomechanical interdisciplinary research; information-theoretic physical layer security; ad-hoc and sensor networks; vehicular communications; public safety/PPDR services; digital cultural platforms and solutions
Interests: optical networks: multi-layer planning and operation algorithms; software defined networking; subsea networks; 5G related issues; cloud computing and networking; scheduling and communications algorithms; disaster recovery; inter-datacenter issues; IoT and wireless networks: multi-hop routing; middleware; pervasive games; smart home networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our Special Issue on “Recent Advances in the Convergence of Wireless and Optical Technologies” aims to collate scholars from academia and industry whose novel works and research overviews illustrate the many advances and challenges in the convergence of these two major technologies and research areas. The further implementation of 5G networks has provided ample empirical data for the move towards 6G innovation. The emerging ecosystem of solutions, suggestions, technologies, and inter-disciplinary areas of interest comprising the “Beyond-5G” (B5G) scope demonstrates the shift towards even higher frequencies of interest than the allocated 5G spectrum. Mm-wave frequencies used for massive MIMO systems in the 60-83 GHz spectrum; the exploitation of findings in the 150 GHz region; the push towards THz directional communications; and the additional push for wireless optical applications and solutions in the infrared spectrum (namely for Industrial 5.0 solutions), the ultra-violet spectrum (for sensing and security applications), and visible light communications (VLCs) (with all the open issues and challenges that they present) confirm that the future lies in the area of ultra-dense ultra-high-capacity systems where sensing and AI-assisted beam steering will improve novel antenna engineering, whereas network optimization will be conducted on the basis of channel estimation techniques. Use cases cover a wide variety of areas, such as Industry 5.0, infrared FSO, smart city verticals, connected vehicles, and lidar techniques.
Within this scope, our Special Issue aims to collate empirical works, novel results, unpublished results, as well as feature overview research findings that identify the progress in these aforementioned areas of interest. This Special Issue aspires to embrace the enthusiastic work carried out in consortia, research projects, as well as feature properly-extended conference papers of notable interest and contribution.
Dr. Theofilos Chrysikos
Dr. Panagiotis Kokkinos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mm-Wave
- THz communications
- massive MIMO
- AI-assisted beam steering
- free-space optics
- free-space THz transmitters and receiver building blocks
- demonstration of net data transmission of 400 Gb/s over 1 km
- UV NLOS sensor technologies
- LiDARs
- use cases for the F6G/6G ecosystem
- Industry 5.0
- ultra-high-capacity systems
- modulation techniques for the optical spectrum
- infrared solutions
- smart health for B5G systems
