Speaker: Prof. YEON HO CHUNG

Time and Date: 15:30-17:30 am, May 23 2019

Place: Room 309 of Scientific Building, Handan Campus,Fudan University

Abstract:

  5G is being developed as a new platform for mobile networks with three main focuses: capacity enhancement, massive connectivity, and ultra-high reliability. Some of candidate technologies have emerged such as mmWave and massive MIMO. As an opposing but complementary path of wireless technology development, optical light based communications, called optical wireless communications (OWC), are being considered efficient short-range wireless communications. As a large volume of mobile traffic occur indoors, optical wireless communication is suited especially for indoor wireless communications based on light emitting diodes or other invisible lights. Optical wireless communication encompasses visible light communication (VLC), camera (or image sensor) based optical camera communication (OCC), and invisible light based optical communications such as ultraviolet and infrared. Among these sub-disciplines, optical camera communications are pretty viable and deployable in the near future, because all mobile users effectively carry OCC receivers with no additional hardware cost incurred. The recent adoption of dual camera in smartphones will open a new path for OCC in the future. This talk will provide insight into some emerging OWC technologies with some emphasis on OCC, while elaborating on some basics to OWC.

Biography:

  YEON HO CHUNG (M’93, SM’17) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. He obtained an MSc. from Imperial College London, U.K. in 1992 and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, U.K. in 1996. He was a visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S. and also at Chiba University, Japan. He was a foreign expert for the GIAN program of the Government of India in 2017 and was a keynote speaker for 11th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2018. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, Springer and also Internet Technology Letters, Wiley. He is an associate editor of IEEE Access. He received the Top 2014 Paper Award from Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Wiley. His research interests are visible light communications, optical wireless communications, optical healthcare systems, and advanced mobile transmission schemes.