2017 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Marco Gruteser,
- Wenjun Hu,
- Publications Chair:
- Viet Nguyen
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems -- VLCS'17. This year's workshop is the fourth edition since its inception. VLCS'17 continues to draw researchers and practitioners across a full spectrum of topical areas. Its mission is to provide an open forum to share the latest findings, perspectives, and experience on various aspects of visible light communication technology.
This year's program continues to feature traditional workshop elements, such as a keynote, regular papers, demos, and a panel. We encourage you to attend the keynote by Prof. Hsin-Mu Tsai from National Taiwan University and the panel on "Hybrid VLC and Radio Communication: Potential, Challenges, and Solutions for Coexistence". New this year, the workshop will feature a position paper session to encourage more discussion.
Proceeding Downloads
Elements of Visible Light Communication Research
Visible light communication (VLC) has gained great attention from both the industry and the academia as it can potentially provide a solution to alleviate the congestion in the wireless spectrum, offloading the ever-increasing data traffic to the ...
Battery-free Visible Light Sensing
We present the design of the first Visible Light Sensing (VLS) system that consumes only tens of μWs of power to sense and communicate. Unlike most existing VLS systems, we require no modification to the existing light infrastructure since we use ...
Roaming in Connecting Light: Practical Visible Light Communication Leveraging LED Sensing
Given the growing interests on using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices to implement Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems, there is a call for filling the gap between VLC standards and practical deployments. In particular, since LED-Camera VLC ...
SeedLight: Hardening LED-to-Camera Communication with Random Linear Coding
With the increasing consumer demand for smart objects, LED-to-Camera communication appears as a low-cost alternative to radio to make any conventional device smart. Since LEDs are already on most electronics devices, that is achieved at the cost of ...
Driving Visible Light Communications Towards the Tipping Point for Broad Scale Adoption
Over the last decade, Visible Light Communications (VLC) has been the focus of considerable optimistic discussion as a potential candidate for high data rate communications in next generation wireless networks. Much of the discussion has focused on the ...
Position: Health Effects in LED-based Communication Systems and Possible Mitigations
With the invention of Blue LEDs (awarded with the Nobel Prize), white LEDs are now pervasively present in the market, and Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS) are the result of intensive scientific investigations in the last years. In this work, ...
Position: DroneVLC: Visible Light Communication for Aerial Vehicular Networking
Drones have opened up a vista of opportunities for novel applications, ranging from 3D mapping to agriculture to door delivery of products. This paper positions the idea of enabling visible light communication (VLC) technology on drones. VLC on drones ...
Demo: An Open-Access Research Testbed for Visible Light Communication
There has recently been a great deal of interest and research activity on the use of wireless visible light communication (VLC) systems. However, there is currently no widespread access to a common "reference" platform for VLC experiments. Researchers ...
Demo: OpenVLC1.2 for Increased Data Rate with Embedded Systems
We introduce the OpenVLC1.2 platform for research in Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems. The platform builds on top of previous versions, that has attracted dozens of users from the research community. We maintain its advantages such as the ...
Demo: Battery-free Visible Light Sensing
We present our efforts to design the first Visible Light Sensing (VLS) system that consumes only tens of μWs of power to sense and communicate. We achieve this by designing a sensing mechanism that uses solar cells to achieve sub-μWs of power ...
A Performance Comparison of Different Cost Functions for RSS-Based Visible Light Positioning Under the Presence of Reflections
This paper presents a study of the performance of eight different cost metrics for RSS-based visible light positioning (VLP) under the presence of reflections. A channel model with first-order wall reflections is implemented, after which the ...
A Comparison of Load Balancing Techniques for Hybrid LiFi/RF Networks
Light Fidelity (LiFi) is a recently proposed technology that combines illumination and high speed wireless communication using light emitting diodes (LEDs). Since a LiFi access point (AP) covers a small area, the spatial distribution of data rates ...
Hybrid VLC and Radio Communication: Potential, Challenges and Solutions for Coexistence
This panel brings together experts in radio frequency (RF) and optical wireless communication to discuss the feasibility, challenges and solutions for hybrid VLC-RF communication.