Emerging Optical Wireless Communications-Advances and Challenges

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1738-1749

  Ghassemlooy, Zabih ^a   Arnon, Shlomi ^b   Uysal, Murat ^c   Xu, Zhengyuan ^d   Cheng, Julian ^e  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

free space optics; optical scattering communications; Optical wireless communications; transcutaneous OWC; underwater OWC; visible light communications

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; SPACE OPTICS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FREE SPACE OPTICS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; TRANSCUTANEOUS; UNDERWATER OWC;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84940039365     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2458511     Document Type: Article

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