Lisu Yu
Nanchang University, China
Lisu Yu, received the Ph.D. degree from the Key Laboratory of Information Coding and Transmission, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR, USA) and the University of Houston (Houston, TX, USA). He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, China. He serves as Vice Dean of the Industrial Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Department of Integrated Circuits. His main research interests include coded modulation, non-orthogonal multiple access, fiber wireless communication, ultra-dense network, UAV, and visible light communication. He has served as the Activities Chair of IEEE Communication Society Chengdu Chapter and held various roles including Technical Program Committee Member, Section Chair, Track Chair, and Organizing Committee Chair for many international conferences. He is an Area Editor for Physical Communication (Elsevier), an Editor for Nature Scientific Reports, Springer Nature Computer Science, and PeerJ Computer Science, as well as the Managing Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, and Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems (Elsevier). He also serves as a young editorial board member for several other journals. He is a Senior Member of CIC, Life Member of CAAI, Chair of JXVI, and Leader of ICIoT Lab.
As 5G networks are being rolled out in many different countries nowadays, the time has come to investigate how to upgrade and expand them toward 6G, where the latter is expected to realize the interconnection of everything as well as the development of a ubiquitous intelligent mobile world for intelligent life. To enable this epic leap in communications, this topic provides an overview and outlook on the application of sparse code multiple access (SCMA) for visible light communication (VLC) networks in 6G wireless communication systems, which is an emerging disruptive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for the enabling of massive connectivity. We propose to apply SCMA to a massively distributed access system whose architecture is based on fiber-based visible light communication, ultra-dense networks, and NOMA. Under this framework, we consider the interactions between optical fronthauls and wireless access links. In order to stimulate more upcoming research in this area, we outline a number of promising directions associated with SCMA for faster, more reliable, and more efficient multiple access in future 6G communication networks. In addition, we will show some recent advanced results and demos of VLC systems.