Alassane Kaba received an MSc degree in Telecommunication and Networks from the University of Saad Dahleb Blida (Algeria) and in Telecommunication Networks, Multimedia, and Automatic from the University of Poitiers (France). For the last 2 years, he has been a PhD candidate at the University of Limoges (France). His research activities are developed within the XLIM laboratory (UMR CNRS 7252, University of Limoges, France) and concern optical wireless communications applied to medical applications for the elderly, including the design of optical wireless body sensor networks for monitoring of elderly people.