CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Introduction
 2     History of VLC
 3     Visible light and broadband
        3.1     Possibilities of broadband use via visible light
        3.2     Efficiency gains of the use of visible light for broadband communications
        3.3     Use of the spectrum
        3.4     Possible applications/services benefiting from VLC
 4     Spectrum management aspects relevant to visible light
        4.1     Issue 1: Spectrum opportunities and spectrum allocation
        4.2     Issue 2: Spectrum planning principles
        4.3     Issue 3: International and regional harmonization
 5     Technical and operational characteristics of short distance broadband communication via visible light
        5.1     Visible light communication transmitter
        5.2     Visible light communication receiver
        5.3     Current standardization activities
        5.4     Collected VLC related activities in the countries
                  5.4.1     VLC research in China
                  5.4.2     VLC research in Japan
                  5.4.3     VLC research in Korea
                  5.4.4     VLC research in The Netherlands
                  5.4.5     VLC research in Turkey
                  5.4.6     EU-China collaboration
        5.5     Collected VLC related activities in the Academia, Industry and Research Institutes
                  5.5.1     Basic6
                  5.5.2     Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)’s LiFi Hotspot
                  5.5.3     Hyperion technologies
                  5.5.4     Lucibel
                  5.5.5     Luciom
                  5.5.6     LVX system
                  5.5.7     pureLiFi
                  5.5.8     Velmenni
                  5.5.9     Tsinghua advanced integrated visible light and power line communication system
                  5.5.10     EU-China Research Project – Internet of Radio Light
 6     Other relevant aspects (user needs, socio-economic aspects) for decisions on visible light
 7     Conclusions