Introduction to the feature issue on IEEE ICC 2016 ONS Symposium and OWC Workshop

This Feature Issue is based on extended revised versions of top-ranked papers presented at the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium and the Optical Wireless Communications Workshop that were held at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016). The papers appearing in this Feature Issue cover a wide range of topics, including visible light communications, passive optical networks, and 5G optical transport networks.