Lighting Up Wireless Communication, Sensing and Power Delivery
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 June 2024 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Light, as a ubiquitous medium around us, serves as a fascinating modality for data communication, object tracking, human sensing, and power delivery. Light as a communication medium provides hundreds of terahertz spectrum bands that are unlicensed, holding the potential to expand the limits of the radio spectrum and to enable emerging data-intensive applications (e.g., virtual reality and autonomous driving). Light as a sensing medium achieves a fine-grained sensing resolution thanks to its nanometer-level wavelengths, with broad implications for a plethora of sensing applications ranging from object tracking to human health sensing. Light as a renewable energy source is most appealing due to its ubiquity and high energy density, with the possibility to power up zillions of power-constrained devices and sensors.
This Special Issue aims to bring together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies/solutions, applications, open challenges, and research opportunities in the field of light communication, sensing, and power delivery.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Novel light communication schemes and systems;
- Networking of light communication links;
- Coexistence and fusion of light communication and sensing with other modalities;
- Light communication with image sensors;
- Light-based localization;
- Human sensing using light;
- Underwater or air–water communication and sensing with light;
- Aerial networking and sensing with light;
- Vehicular networking and sensing with light;
- Laser light communication and sensing;
- Experimental platforms for light communication and sensing;
- HCI applications of light communication and sensing;
- Robotic applications of light communication and sensing;
- Security and privacy aspects of light communication and sensing;
- Energy harvesting and power delivery with light;
- Communication and sensing with unconventional optical bands (e.g., UV light and thermal infrared).
Dr. Xia Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- light communication
- light sensing
- power delivery with light
- laser communication
