• All organic visible light communications (VLCs)
• Channel modelling and characterisation, channel capacity analysis
• Diversity techniques, dimming, data communications and localisation in VLCs
• Free space optics (FSO), outdoor and under water – Last meter to last mile
• Hybrid millimetre-wave (MMW)- optical wireless communications (OWC) links
• Hybrid IR/VLC technology
• Modelling of various noises in MMW/OWC systems
• Modulation, coding and detection schemes
• Mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile communications
• OWC, MMW, and THz novel devices and components
• OWC and MMW networks: architecture, PHY/MAC design, cross-layer design
• Applications of OWC (VLC, FSO) and MMW for: Device-to-device communications, e-Health, e-Commerce, Intelligent transportation systems (e.g. vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, trains, aircrafts, etc.), Underwater, Indoor positioning, Inter and intra chip communications, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Medical, Space, Manufacturing, Wireless sensor networks
• Next generation OWC and MMW networks
• OWC and MMW transceiver design and optimization
• Ultraviolet communications
• Massive MIMO for optical and MMW links
• Other