Advanced Optical Wireless Communication Systems

Shlomi Arnon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Israel and the Principal Investigator of Israel Partnership with NASA LUNAR Science Institute. In addition to research, Professor Arnon and his students work on many challenging engineering projects with emphasis on the humanitarian dimension, such as developing a system to detect human survival after earthquakes, or an infant respiration monitoring system to prevent cardiac arrest and apnea. John R. Barry is a Professor of Telecommunications at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a co-author of Digital Communication (Kluwer, 2004) and Iterative Timing Recovery: A Per-Survivor Approach (VDM, 2009) and he is the author of Wireless Infrared Communications (Kluwer, 1994). George K. Karagiannidis is an Associate Professor of Digital Communications Systems in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Head of the Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Wireless Communications Symposium (WCS) in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'07). Robert Schober is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. He has received numerous awards, including best paper awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), IEEE ICUWB 2006, the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, and European Wireless 2000. Murat Uysal is an Associate Professor at Özyeğin University, Istanbul, where he leads the Communication Theory and Technologies (CT and T) Research Group. Dr Uysal is the recipient of several awards including the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award, among others.

• Part I. Outlook: 1. Introduction Shlomi Arnon, John Barry, George Karagiannidis, Robert Schober and Murat Uysal; Part II. Optical Wireless Communication Theory: 2. Coded modulation techniques for optical wireless channels Ivan B. Djordjevic; 3. Wireless optical CDMA communication systems Jawad A. Salehi, Babak M. Ghaffari and Mehdi D. Matinfar; 4. Pointing error statistics Shlomi Arnon; 5. Equalization and Markov chains in cloud channel Mohsen Kavehrad; 6. Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output techniques for indoor optical wireless communications Steve Hranilovic; 7. Channel capacity Amos Lapidoth, Stefan M. Moser and Michèle Wigger; Part III. Unique Channels: 8. Modeling and characterization of ultraviolet scattering communication channels Haipeng Ding, Brian M. Sadler, Gang Chen and Zhengyuan Xu; 9. Free space optical communications underwater Brandon Cochenour and Linda Mullen; 10. The optical wireless channel Roger Green and Mark Leeson; 11. Hybrid RF/FSO communications Nick Letzepis and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas; Part IV. Applications: 12. Quantum key distribution R. Ursin, N. K. Langford and A. Poppe; 13. Optical modulating retro-reflectors William Rabinovich; 14. Visible-light communications Kang Tae-Gyu and John R. Barry; 15. Optical wireless in sensor networks Dominic C. O'Brien and Sashigaran Sivathasan.