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Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology for supporting data intensive services in indoor environments due to its large unregulated spectrum, high spatial reuse, and potential for multigigabit data rates. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Walter Zibusiso Ncube , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Networks inside current data centers comprise a hierarchy of power-hungry electronic packet switches interconnected via optical fibers and transceivers. As the scaling of such electrically-switched networks approaches a plateau, a…

In this paper, an energy efficient passive optical network (PON) architecture is proposed for backhaul connectivity in indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems. The proposed network is used to support a fog computing architecture…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Wafaa B. M. Fadlelmula , Sanaa H. Mohamed , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

The many cores design research community have shown high interest in optical crossbars on chip for more than a decade. Key properties of optical crossbars, namely a) contention-free data routing b) low-latency communication and c) potential…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Hui Li , Sébastien Le Beux , Gabriela Nicolescu , Ian O 'Connor

Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as a pivotal solution for achieving terabit-level aggregate throughput in next-generation wireless networks. With the mature high-speed transceivers and advanced (de)multiplexing techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Jinzhe Che , Shenjie Huang , Majid Safari

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is envisioned as one of the main enabling technologies of 6G networks, complementing radio frequency (RF) systems to provide high data rates. One of the crucial issues in indoor OWC is service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Ahrar N. Hamad , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. Elgorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) systems enable low-latency communication in many-core platforms through short-range wireless links. However, the power consumption of integrated transceivers (TRXs), dominated by that of the RF front-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Mohammad Shahmoradi , Ahmet Yelboğa , Eduard Alarcón , Korkut Kaan Tokgöz , Sergi Abadal

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless-powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple wireless devices (WDs) first harvest energy from the downlink (DL) signal broadcast by a hybrid access point (HAP) and then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

Software-defined networking (SDN), which has been successfully deployed in the management of complex data centers, has recently been incorporated into a myriad of 5G networks to intelligently manage a wide range of heterogeneous wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-15 EmadelDin A. Mazied , Mustafa Y. ElNainay , Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman , Scott F. Midkiff , Mohamed R. M. Rizk , Hesham A. Rakha , Allen B. MacKenzie

This paper investigates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless powered communication system, where one user harvests energy from an energy access point (EAP) to power its information transmission to a data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xun Zhou , Chin Keong Ho , Rui Zhang

The provision of both wireless and wired services in the optical access domain will be an important function for future passive optical networks (PON). With the emergence of 5th generation (5G) mobile communications, a move toward a dense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Colm Browning , Arman Farhang , Arsalan Saljoghei , Nicola Marchetti , Vidak Vujicic , Linda Doyle , Liam Barry

Wireless communication has become a standard solution to address ever-increasing demands for information transfer in our modern society. Conventional systems work in an active way in the sense that an active carrier signal is mandatorily…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hanting Zhao , Ya Shuang , Menglin Wei , Tie Jun Cui , Philipp del Hougne , Lianlin Li

In this work, we propose and experimentally assess the automatic and flexible NSs configurations of optical OPSquare DCN controlled and orchestrated by an extended SDN control plane for multi-tenant applications with differentiated QoS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Xuwei Xue , Fu Wang , Fernando Agraz , Albert Pagès , Bitao Pan , Fulong Yan , Xiaotao Guo , Salvatore Spadaro , Nicola Calabretta

In this letter, we investigate a novel pinching antenna (PA)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which multiple PAs are activated along a waveguide to establish robust line-of-sight links with multiple devices. Both time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yixuan Li , Hongbo Xu , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu

Photon counting detectors such as single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays can be utilized to improve the sensitivity of optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. However, the achievable data rate of SPAD-based OWC systems is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shenjie Huang , Cheng Chen , Rui Bian , Harald Haas , Majid Safari

This paper explores the transmission schemes for multi-channel water-to-air optical wireless communication (W2A-OWC) and introduces a prototype of a real-time W2A-OWC system based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Utilizing an LED…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Han Qi , Tianrui Lin , Tianjian Wei , Qingqing Hu , Siyan Sun , Nuo Huang , Chen Gong

Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is becoming an attractive technology for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) since it offers high-speed communication links. Although UOWC overcomes the drawbacks of acoustic and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Rawan Alghamdi , Nasir Saeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

As 6G and beyond aim for sustainable, high-capacity wireless connectivity, optical wireless communication (OWC) has emerged as a compelling solution.Recent advances in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays have significantly…

Optical wireless communication (OWC) is a promising technology for future wireless communications owing to its potentials for cost-effective network deployment and high data rate. There are several implementation issues in the OWC which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Sang Hyun Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek , Inkyu Lee

LPWAN is an enabling technology for long-range, low-power, and low-cost IoT/CPS applications. Recently, multiple LPWAN technologies have been developed that operate in the licensed (e.g., 5G) and ISM (e.g., LoRa) bands. To avoid the crowd…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mahbubur Rahman