Optical wireless communications for broadband access in home area networks

Proceedings of 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-154

  Langer, Klaus Dieter ^a   Grubor, Jelena ^a   Bouchet, Olivier ^b   Tabach, Mamdouh El ^b   Walewski, Joachim W ^c   Randel, Sebastian ^c   Franke, Martin ^c   Nerreter, Stefan ^c   O'Brien, Dominic C ^d   Faulkner, Grahame E ^d   Neokosmidis, Ioannis ^e   Ntogari, Georgia ^e   Wolf, Mike ^f  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broadband; Home area network; Infrared communication; Laser; LED; Optical wireless; Visible light communication

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RADIO LINKS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BACK-BONE NETWORK; BROAD BAND ACCESS; BROADBAND; HOME AREA NETWORK; HOME NETWORKING; HOT-SPOTS; INFORMATION BROADCASTING; INFRARED COMMUNICATION; INTERIOR LIGHTING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LASER; LED; MAC LAYERS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; PHYSICAL LAYER; POWER-LINE COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION; VISIBLE-LIGHT; WHITE-LIGHT LEDS; WIRELESS LINKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 52249107522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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