Addressing spectrum scarcity through hybrid optical and radio-frequency wireless networks

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• Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
• Monday 21 January 2019, 15:00-16:00
• EEE Department, Control Seminar Room, Level 11, Room 1109A.

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Rapid increase in the use of wireless services over the last two decades has led the problem of the radio-frequency (RF) spectrum exhaustion. More specifically, due to this RF spectrum scarcity, additional RF bandwidth allocation, as utilized in the recent past, is not anymore a viable solution to fulfill the demand for more wireless applications and higher data rates. The talk goes first over the potential offered by optical wireless (OW) communication systems to relieve spectrum scarcity. It then summarizes some of the challenges that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be deployed. Finally, the talk offers two recent studies illustrating how supplementing OW networks with RF backup access points increases these networks reliability and coverage while maintaing their high capacity.

Bio: Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA , in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA , then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009.

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