9:00am - 9:15am: Opening remarks

Title: On VLC as a 5G technology [Slides]
Prof. Thomas Little (Boston University and NSF ERC for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications)

10:15am - 10:30am: Coffee break

Clipping Noise Cancellation Based on Compressed Sensing for Visible Light Communication [PDF] [Slides]
Junnan Gao, Fang Yang, Sicong Liu, Jian Song (Tsinghua University)

modBulb: A Modular Light Bulb for Visible Light Communication [PDF] [Slides]
Kasun Hewage, Ambuj Varshney, Abdalah Hilmia (Uppsala University, Sweden), Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University, Sweden and SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)

Optimal Multi-Element VLC Bulb Design with Power and Lighting Quality Constraints [PDF] [Slides]
Sifat Ibne Mushfique, Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada)

Opportunities and Pitfalls in Securing Visible Light Communication on the Physical Layer [PDF] [Slides]
Jiska Classen, Daniel Steinmetzer, Matthias Hollick (Secure Mobile Networking Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Occupancy and Activity Estimation using Reflected Encoded Illumination [Slides]
Robert F. Karlicek: Director of Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch break

Diversity Combining and Piezoelectric Beam Steering for Multi-Element VLC Networks [PDF] [Slides]
Yusuf Said Eroglu, Ismail Guvenc, Alphan Sahin, Nezih Pala (Florida International University), Murat Yuksel (University of Nevada)

PLiFi: Hybrid WiFi-VLC Networking using Power Lines [PDF] [Slides]
Pengfei Hu, Parth H. Pathak, Aveek K. Das, Zhicheng Yang, Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis)

High-Speed Mobile Networking Through Hybrid mmWave-Camera Communications [PDF]
Takayuki Nishio (Kyoto University, Japan), Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA)

Panel chair: Robert LiKamWa (Arizona State University)

Topic: Building Infrastructure for VLCS

Panelists:
Robert F. Karlicek (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Jian Song (Tsinghua University, China)
Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Patrick Yue (HKUST and Tsinghua University)

3:30pm - 3:45pm: Coffee break

Visible Light based Activity Sensing using Ceiling Photosensors [PDF] [Slides] Best Paper Award
Mohamed Ibrahim, Viet Nguyen, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Minitha Jawahar, Marco Gruteser, Richard Howard (WINLAB, Rutgers University)

Towards a Visible Light Network Architecture for Continuous Communication and Localization [PDF] [Slides]
Jialiang Zhang, Chi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Unleashing the Power of LED-to-Camera Communications for IoT Devices [PDF] [Slides]
Alexis Duque (Rtone, Lyon, France), Razvan Stanica, Herve Rivano (Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI), Adrien Desportes (Rtone, Lyon, France)

Using Smartphones as Continuous Receivers in a Visible Light Communication System [PDF] [Slides]
Stefan Schmid, Linard Arquint, Thomas R. Gross (ETH Zurich)

Demo: Using Smartphones as Continuous Receivers in a Visible Light Communication System
Stefan Schmid, Linard Arquint, Thomas R. Gross (ETH Zurich)

Demo: modBulb: A Modular Light Bulb for Visible Light Communication
Kasun Hewage, Ambuj Varshney, Abdalah Hilmia, Thiemo Voigt (Uppsala University, Sweden and SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)

Demo: Unleashing the power of LED-to-camera communications for IoT devices
Alexis Duque, Razvan Stanica, Herve Rivano, Adrien Desportes (Univ Lyon, Lyon, France)