IEEE Technical Seminar, Chalmers – Wireless Connectivity through Lighting
On Thursday, 20th of March, an IEEE Technical Seminar will be held by Professor Maïté Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia and Chalmers Jubilee Professor. The seminar is organized by the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology.
The lecture will be held as follows.
Time: Thursday 20th of March at 15.00
Location: Room EB, Hörsalsvägen 11, Campus Johanneberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
Title: Wireless Connectivity through Lighting: Techniques and Applications of Visible Light Communications
Abstract:
LED lamps have recently become the technology of choice for lighting in many environments, from indoor office spaces to outdoor vehicular use. These LED lamps can be modulated at relatively high speeds, opening up the possibility to use them to provide simultaneously illumination and data transmission, so-called visible light communications (VLC). One of the most compelling applications for VLC is in large unobstructed indoor spaces where many users desire concurrent high-speed connectivity, such as conference centers and classrooms; Wi-Fi fails here because of its limited spectrum re-use. Other promising applications include vehicle-to-anything (V2x) communications, indoor positioning, and transmission inside airplane cabins. Yet VLC systems suffer from the limited bandwidth of inexpensive LEDs as well as from intersymbol interference (ISI) imposed by channel multipath. In this talk we introduce transmission schemes to increase the data throughput of single-user VLC systems, as well as adaptive networking techniques that can provide mobile network access for many simultaneous users.
Biography:
Dr. Maïté Brandt-Pearce received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1993. She then joined the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, where she is currently a full Professor. Her research interests include nonlinear effects in fiber-optics, free-space optical communications, optical networks subject to physical layer degradations, body area networks, and radar signal processing. Dr. Brandt-Pearce is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and an NSF RIA. She is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at ICC 2006 and GLOBECOM 2012. She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networks, and Springer Photonic Network Communications. She is co-editor of a book entitled Cross-Layer Design in Optical Networks, Springer Optical Networks Series, 2013. Dr. Brandt-Pearce has over a hundred and fifty major journal and conference publications.