Lajos Hanzo - iCore Inaugural Workshop Speaker and Panellist

Lajos Hanzo is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), FIEEE, FIET and a EURASIP Fellow.
He co-authored 20 IEEE Press - John Wiley books totalling in excess of 10000 pages on mobile radio communications, published about 1400+ research entries at IEEE Xplore, organised and chaired major IEEE conferences and has been awarded a number of distinctions. Lajos is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. During 2008 - 2012 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press and also a Chaired Prof. at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk


Talk Title: "Breaking the RF Spectrum Crunch: Recent Advances in Optical Wireless"

Abstract: The quantum-leaps predicted by Moore's law brought about the wireless revolution of the past three decades [1] - but how can we sustain this pace of development, Dr Moore? The popularity of smart-phones and tablet computers brought about the 'data-tsunami' and hence the wireless communications community turned its attention to hitherto untapped resources in the mm-wave and optical wireless part of the electro-magnetic spectrum [1]. Numerous optical wireless transmission solutions have been proposed, ranging from low-complexity on-off keying (OOK) to colour shift keying (CSK) and asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency-divisionmultiplexing (ACO-OFDM) based multiple-transmit/receive aperture (MTRA) selection aided systems. A range of promising techniques will be reviewed [1] - [6], followed by a number of open challenges, indicating that future is bright for optical wireless researchers...

REFERENCES

[1] Hanzo, L.; Haas, H.; Imre, S.; O'Brien, D.; Rupp, M.; Gyongyosi, L.: Prolog to the Section on Wireless Communications Technology - Wireless myths, realities, and futures: From 3g/4g to optical and quantum wireless, Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume: 100, Issue: Special Centennial Issue, 2012, pp 1849 - 1852.
[2] Zhang,R; Hanzo L.: Multi-layer modulation for intensity-modulated direct-detection optical OFDM IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Volume 5, Issue 12, 2013, 1402 - 1412.
[3] Zhou, Xiaolin; Zhang, Dingchen; Zhang, Rong; Hanzo, Lajos A photon-counting spatial-diversity-and-multiplexing MIMO scheme for Poisson atmospheric channels relying on Q-ary PPM, Optics Express, Vol. 20 Issue 24, pp.26379-26393.
[4] Zhou, Xiaolin; Zheng, Xiaowei; Zhang, Rong; Hanzo, Lajos: Chip-interleaved optical code division multiple access relying on a photon-counting iterative successive interference canceller for free-space optical channels, Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 13, pp.15926-15937.
[5] Li, Lingbin; Zhou, Xiaolin; Zhang, Rong; Zhang, Dingchen; Hanzo, Lajos: Performance and capacity analysis of Poisson photon-counting based Iter-PIC OCDMA systems, Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 22, pp. 25954-25967.
[6] Wang, Qi; Wang, Zhaocheng; Chen, Sheng; Hanzo, Lajos: Enhancing the decoding performance of optical wireless communication systems using receiver-side predistortion, Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 25, pp.30295-30305, 2014.