Optical Wireless

Soon: The 6th KAUST 6G Summit

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About the Summit The Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in bringing a revolution in almost all aspects of human life. As the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems (WCSs) have extensively deployed worldwide, 6G is expected to be the next focus in wireless communication and networking and aim to provide new superior communication services to meet the future hyper-connectivity demands in the 2030s. The 6th KAUST 6G Summit promotes research and innovation in 6G technology, which has the potential to revolutionize industries like telecommunications, manufacturing

Toward Satellite-Air-Ground-Ocean Optical Wireless Communication for Internet of Things

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With the advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT), the conventional radio frequency (RF) communication technology with a congested spectrum of 300 GHz cannot meet the ever-increasing demand for broadband transmission. By exploiting an unlicensed spectrum of ~ 30 PHz, optical wireless communication (OWC) technology is supposed to significantly relieve the load of RF spectrum to support the massive connectivity of IoT devices in the era of fifth-generation networks and beyond. Up to now, continuous breakthroughs in the field of free-space optical communication, visible light communication, and underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) are laying a solid foundation for the realization of OWC across satellite-air-ground-ocean (SAGO) boundaries, which is expected to considerably accelerate the pace of realizing globally-connected IoT. In this talk, we will briefly introduce the current progress of UWOC research and development toward applications in SAGO OWC.