TY - JOUR
T1 - Revolutionizing Optical Wireless Communications via Smart Optics
AU - Abdelhady, Amr Mohamed Abdelaziz
AU - Amin, Osama
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
AU - Shihada, Basem
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-04-20
Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Eng. Walid M. Abdelhady for rendering Fig. 3 and Fig. 4.
PY - 2022/4/4
Y1 - 2022/4/4
N2 - The heterogeneity of optical wireless networks (OWNs) has expanded over decades in terms of services, node densities, mobility requirements, bandwidth needs, responsiveness, and physical device profile. Consequently, incorporating dynamic reconfigurability into future OWNs can satisfy their diverse realm of objectives. Towards this end, we provide our vision for the potential gains of integrating tunable optical elements in OWNs reflected in energy consumption reduction, coverage customization, data transfer rate boosting, highly accommodating multiple access schemes, enhancing physical layer security, supporting simultaneous services, and interference reduction. Finally, we speculate a roadmap for future research directions in tunable optics aided OWNs and the associated challenges with their deployment and operation
AB - The heterogeneity of optical wireless networks (OWNs) has expanded over decades in terms of services, node densities, mobility requirements, bandwidth needs, responsiveness, and physical device profile. Consequently, incorporating dynamic reconfigurability into future OWNs can satisfy their diverse realm of objectives. Towards this end, we provide our vision for the potential gains of integrating tunable optical elements in OWNs reflected in energy consumption reduction, coverage customization, data transfer rate boosting, highly accommodating multiple access schemes, enhancing physical layer security, supporting simultaneous services, and interference reduction. Finally, we speculate a roadmap for future research directions in tunable optics aided OWNs and the associated challenges with their deployment and operation
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/676303
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9749119/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127738735&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ojcoms.2022.3164790
DO - 10.1109/ojcoms.2022.3164790
M3 - Article
SN - 2644-125X
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
JF - IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
ER -
