The State of Art, Challenges and Opportunities for the Deeply Integrated Visible Light Communications
Visible light communication (VLC) is using light emitting diode (LED) to support both information transmission and localization, known as an appealing alternative to radio frequency (RF) communication technology for indoor broadband applications. It is even considered as a promising candidate for upcoming 6G with the support of backbone network. Power line communication (PLC) systems utilize the ubiquitous power line network to provide electricity to LED lamps and also serves as the backbone network for VLC applications. A novel and cost-effective indoor broadband broadcasting system, integrating both VLC and PLC systems with little modification to the current infrastructure has been proposed with better coverage. 5G networks can also serve as the backbone of VLC. This talk covers the recent research progress and prototyping development in this area focusing on communication and locationing on top of illumination. The non-intrusive optical therapy with light manipulation will also be introduced with preliminary results, and the future trends will also be addressed.
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- 1151 Richmond St
- London, Ontario
- Canada N6A 3K7
- Building: Amit Chakma Engineering Building
- Room Number: 3445
- Starts 27 September 2023 04:00 PM UTC
- Ends 28 September 2023 10:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Jian Song
Biography:
Dr. Jian Song received his B. Eng. and PhD from Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He is now a full professor of the same department in Tsinghua University, as well as the Director of digital television (DTV) Technology R&D Center, one of the major technical contributors for the Chinese digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard. Dr. Song is very active in serving the communities, now Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, the editor-in-chief (EiC) of IEEE Access for Broadcast Technology Society (BTS), and General Chairs and TPC Chairs for several IEEE flagship conferences.
Dr. Song also has great involvement with international telecommunications union (ITU) and is WP 6A Vice-Chairman. He is the founding EiC of ITU-Tsinghua joint Journal of Intelligent and Converged Networks.
Dr. Song's current research interests include digital broadcasting, network convergence, integrated system of visible light and powerline communications, light and health, as well. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, and coauthored five books and seven book chapters in the aforementioned areas. Dr. Song is the Fellow of IEEE, IET, CIE, and CIC.