Recent Publications

  • T.D.C. Little, C. Chen, P. Muwanga, and E. Zheng, “Continuous Indoor Air Quality Assessment for BU Buildings,” Campus Climate Lab Project, in Campus Climate Lab Spring Symposium. April 23, 2025, Boston University, [pdf].
  • T.D.C Little, M. Boujaoude, and Y. Zhang,  “Pilot BU Indoor Air Quality Sensor and Portal,”  in Campus Climate Lab, Spring 2024 Symposium, Boston University. Retrieved from https://www.bu.edu/igs/files/2024/12/Air-quaility-Marybel-Yangyang-Tom-v2.pdf.
  • J. Konrad, M. Cokbas, P. Ishwar, T.D.C. Little, M. Gevelber, “High-accuracy people counting in large spaces using overhead fisheye cameras,” Energy and Buildings, Volume 307, 2024, 113936, ISSN 0378-7788, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.113936.
  • M.H. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Rahaim, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, and T.D.C Little, “Machine Learning-Based Security-Aware Spatial Modulation for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Networks,” Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Vol. 477, No. 2248, pp. 20200889, April 4, 2021.
  • M.B. Rahaim, T.D.C. Little, and M. Hella, “Multi-Tier Heterogeneous Beam Management for Future Indoor FSO Networks,” Applied Sciences Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 3627, January 2021.
  • E.W. Lam and T.D.C. Little, “Direct and Transitive 3D Localization Using a Zone-Based Positioning Service,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 80936-80947, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2991141.
  • I. Abdalla, M. B. Rahaim, and T. D. C. Little, “On the importance of dynamic FOV receivers for dense indoor optical wireless networks,” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2020.
  • T. D. C. Little and E. W. Lam, “Ray-surface positioning and methods,” Jan 2020. [Online]. Available: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10527712B2/.
  • I. Abdalla, M. B. Rahaim, and T. D. C. Little, “Interference in multi- user optical wireless communications systems,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0190
  • T. D. C. Little and J. C. Chau, “Visible light communications receiver,” Dec 2019. [Online]. Available: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10505629B2/
  • I. Abdalla, M. B. Rahaim, and T. D. C. Little, “Dynamic FOV tracking receiver for dense optical networks,” in 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2019. [Online]. Available: 10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014277
  • T. D. C. Little, D. Bishop, J. Morrison, and I. Matthias, “MEMS devices for smart lighting applications,” Oct 2019. [Online]. Available: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10451808B2/
  • M. H. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Ayyash, T. D. C. Little, M. B. Rahaim, and A. Khreishah, “Technology independent security aware OFDM (SA-OFDM),” in 2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2019, pp. 1–6. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904102
  • M. B. Rahaim, I. Abdalla, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, A. Khreishah, and T. D. C. Little, “Welcome to the CROWD: Design decisions for coexisting radio and optical wireless deployments,” IEEE Network, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 174–182, September 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2019.1800297
  • E. W. Lam and T. D. C. Little, “Visible light positioning for location-based services in industry 4.0,” in 2019 16th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Oulu, Finland, Aug 2019, pp. 345–350. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWCS.2019.8877305
  • E. W. Lam and T. D. C. Little, “Indoor 3d localization with low-cost lifi components,” in 2019 Global LIFI Congress (GLC), IEEE. Paris, France: IEEE, June 2019, pp. 1–6. [Online]. Available https://doi.org/10.1109/GLC.2019.8864119
  • E. W. Lam and T. D. C. Little, “Angle diversity to increase coverage and position accuracy in 3D visible light positioning,” in ICC 2019 – 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2019, pp. 1–7. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8761558
  • I. Abdalla, M. B. Rahaim, and T. D. C. Little, “Investigation of outage probability and AP placement for mobile users in indoor VLC system design,” in 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Apr 2019, pp. 1–6. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885981
  • I. Abdalla, M. B. Rahaim, and T. D. C. Little, “Dynamic FOV visible light communications receiver for dense optical networks,” IET Communications, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 822–830, Apr 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5784
  • S. Shao, Z. Khan, G. Liu, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, T. D. C. Little, and M. B. Rahaim, “Poster abstract: Optimizing handover parameters by Q-learning for heterogeneous RF-VLC networks,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2019 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Apr 2019, pp. 1069–1070. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845139
  • E. W. Lam and T. D. C. Little, “Visible light positioning: Moving from 2D planes to 3D spaces (invited),” Chinese Opticts Letters, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 030604, Mar 2019. [Online]. Available: http://col.osa.org/abstract.cfm?URI=col-17-3-030604
  • T. D. C. Little, M. B. Rahaim, and I. Abdalla, “Impact of variable field of view in indoor visible light communications networks,” in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2019 (IPR, Networks, NOMA,SPPCom,PVLED). OSA,2019.[Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1364/sppcom.2019.spth3e.1
  • S. Shao, G. Liu, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, T. D. C. Little, and M. B. Rahaim, “Optimizing handover parameters by Q-learning for heterogeneous radio-optical networks,” IEEE Photonics Journal, pp. 1–1, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/jphot.2019.2953863