Harald Haas
Tue 03 Sep 2019, 11:30 - 12:30
AGB seminar room

If you have a question about this talk, please contact: Anil Yesilkaya (s1682111)

What is a brain without the nervous system? A question which seems important at a time where almost everybody talks about artificial intelligence and machine learning. This talk is about the future wireless nervous system which translates to massive and secure wireless connectivity. To this end, it seems important to recall that the combined visible light and infrared spectrum is 2600 times larger than the entire radio frequency spectrum. This is one of the key drivers to consider ‘light’ to build the next generation of wireless networks. This is what we call LiFi. This talk will provide a general background to the subject of optical wireless communications. We will introduce a light communication taxonomy, discuss typical use cases and highlight existing challenges. We will showcase a few recent breakthrough achievements on the physical layer that led to experimental transmission speeds greater than 15 Gbps from off-the-shelf light emitting diodes (LEDs).