Internet of Lights IoL - Workshop

Internet of Lights

Call for Papers

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to share early-stage ideas and results on how to leverage the potential of Li-Fi and the underlying Visible Light Communication technology in the Internet of Things.

Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of Li-Fi in the IoT are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. (An itemized list of topics has been omitted due to space constraints).

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Energy efficiency in LiFi
Spectrum efficiency in LiFi
Low-power VLC systems
Simultaneous Data and Power Transfer
Passive Communication and Sensing
Resource-constrained VLC
Resilient LiFi for IoT applications
LiFi systems for home automation
LiFi systems for smart buildings
Interplay of LiFi and smart lighting
Indoor Positioning Systems based on LiFi/VLC
Integration of VLC/LiFi and mm-Wave technologies
Power-efficient underwater optical communications
Applications of LiFi to smart energy systems
Applications of LiFi to smart vehicles and smart transportation
Applications of LiFi to smart manufacturing

3:00 pm CEST / 2:00 pm BST / 9:00 am EDT

Opening remarks and keynote

Lecture by Prof. Harald Haas (LiFi Research and Development Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK)

Title: Multi-Gigabit/s LiFi Networking for 6G

Abstract:

We will first review light sources, detectors, and transmission techniques for LiFi. Moving on we will present networking architectures based on a grid-of-beam approach to achieve 10s of gigabit/s user data rate in LiFi multiuser networks. We will discuss advantages of the proposed system such as enhanced physical layer security and moot existing challenges.

Session chair: Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

4:15 pm CEST / 3:15 pm BST / 10:15 am EDT

Session 1: Communication Protocols

Session chair: Daniele Puccinelli, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)

“LED-to-LED based VLC Systems: Developments and Open Problems”

Muhammad Sarmad Mir (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain); Behnaz Majlesein (LightBee S.L., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Borja Genoves Guzman (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain); Julio Rufo (LightBee S.L., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain)

“Adaptive WDMA: improving the Data Rate of a densely deployed LiFi Network”

Giovanni Luca Martena (University of Strathclyde); Rui Bian (pureLiFi Ltd); Harald Haas (University of Strathclyde)

“Link Adaptive Protocol for V2LC”

Meysam Mayahi, Valeria Loscri (Inria Lille - Nord Europe); Antonio Costanzo (Inria Lille-Nord Europe)

5:15 pm CEST / 4:15 pm BST / 11:15 am EDT

Session 2: Deployments

Session chair: Frank Lochmann, Tridonics

“Position: Drone Camera Communication meets Robotic Soil Sensing”

Bhawana Chhaglani (UMass Amherst, USA); Harsh Gupta (Wheeler Magnet High School); Khadija Ashraf, Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA)

“Gbps Optical Underwater Wireless Communication in the Presence of Turbulence and Random Sea Surface”

Wasiu Popoola, Egecan Guler, Jianming Wang, Callum Geldard (The University of Edinburgh)

“Multi-cell Deployment for Experimental Research in Visible Light Communication-based Internet of Things”

Javier Talavante, Borja Genovés (IMDEA Networks Institute); Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA)

6:15 pm CEST / 5:15 pm BST / 12:15 am EDT

Closing remarks

Title:

Multi-Gigabit/s LiFi Networking for 6G

Abstract:

Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Born in Neustadt an der Aisch (Germany), Professor Harald Haas graduated as an electrical engineer in 1994 from Technische Hochschule Nürnberg (Germany). He subsequently received a Heinz-Nixdorf scholarship to gain experience in South-East Asia and lived in Mumbai for a year working for Siemens Mobile Communications then joined Siemens Semiconductor (now Infineon) as an application engineer for a GSM (2G cellular) chipset in Munich in 1995.

He moved to Scotland to embark on a PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh and on completion in 2001, returned to Germany to work as a research manager on 4G cellular communication systems with Siemens in Munich. In 2002, he became an Associate Professor at the Jacobs University in Bremen then rejoined Edinburgh in 2007, where together with one of his former postdoctoral students, Mostafa Afgani, founded pureLiFi Ltd, in 2012. He remains its Chief Scientific Officer and a member of the Board of Directors.

The company has two registered PhD students who are employed as part of an H2020 Marie Curie Initial training network, ENLIGHT’EM. Haas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, Fellow of the IEEE in 2017 and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019. When he is not working, Professor Haas enjoys outdoor activities – canoeing, hiking and riding.

Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University, USA
Borja Genovés Guzmán, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Michele Girolami, CNR, Italy
Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France
Przemysław Pawełczak, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wasiu Popoola, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Usman Raza, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK
Marco Zúñiga, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Borja Genovés Guzmán, IMDEA Networks, Spain

Submissions here: https://iol2021.hotcrp.com/

Manuscripts must be submitted by using the HotCRP conference management system. Prospective authors must submit a single PDF file with all fonts embedded, using the ACM conference proceedings format (please use the same PDF formatting guidelines as the main conference). Paper length is limited to six (6) pages (in two-column, no smaller than 10-point format), all-inclusive (references, figures, etc.). Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the program committee.

As per ACM policy, all submissions must describe original research not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Submissions should adhere to the ACM templates available at the following URL: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/misc/sig-alternate-10pt.cls

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop.

Registration in the MobiSys website: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2021/

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