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The exponential growth of IoT devices presents critical challenges in bandwidth-constrained wireless networks, particularly regarding efficient data transmission and privacy preservation. This paper presents a novel federated semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

The emerging paradigm of Non-Conventional Internet of Things (NC IoT), which is focused on the usefulness of information as opposed to the notion of high volume data collection and transmission, will be an important and dominant part of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Ananya Hazarika , Mehdi Rahmati

Discrete representation has emerged as a powerful tool in task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC), offering compact, interpretable, and efficient representations well-suited for low-power edge intelligence scenarios. Its inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Chenyuan Feng , Hongyang Du , Haojin Li , Chen Sun , Haijun Zhang

Although analog semantic communication systems have received considerable attention in the literature, there is less work on digital semantic communication systems. In this paper, we develop a deep learning (DL)-enabled vector quantized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qifan Fu , Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Gregory Slabaugh , Xiaoming Tao

This work provides a comparative analysis illustrating how Deep Learning (DL) surpasses Machine Learning (ML) in addressing tasks within Internet of Things (IoT), such as attack classification and device-type identification. Our approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Mounia Hamidouche , Eugeny Popko , Bassem Ouni

Different from data-oriented communication systems that primarily focus on how to accurately transmit every bit of data, task-oriented semantic communication systems only transmit the specific semantic information required by downstream…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Qinshan Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Recently, it was shown that a communication system could be represented as a deep learning (DL) autoencoder. Inspired by this idea, we target the problem of OFDM-based wireless cross-technology communication (CTC) where both in-technology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Anatolij Zubow , Piotr Gawłowicz , Suzan Bayhan

The Internet of Things (IoT) integrates billions of smart devices that can communicate with one another with minimal human intervention. It is one of the fastest developing fields in the history of computing, with an estimated 50 billion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Mohammed Ali Al-Garadi , Amr Mohamed , Abdulla Al-Ali , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

The pervasive need to safely share and store information between devices calls for the replacement of centralized trust architectures with the decentralized ones. Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) are seen as the most promising enabler…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Pietro Danzi , Anders E. Kalør , René B. Sørensen , Alexander K. Hagelskjær , Lam D. Nguyen , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

A novel semantic approach to data selection and compression is presented for the dynamic adaptation of IoT data processing and transmission within "wireless islands", where a set of sensing devices (sensors) are interconnected through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Igor Burago , Marco Levorato , Sameer Singh

In the near future, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors), which generate massive real-time data at the network edge. Intelligence can be distilled from the data to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qiao Lan , Zezhong Zhang , Yuqing Du , Zhenyi Lin , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communications have gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the transmission bottleneck, especially with the continuous development of 6G techniques. Distinct from the well investigated physical channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Khaled B. Letaief

The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the widespread deployment of smart IoT devices at wireless edge for collaborative machine learning tasks, ushering in a new era of edge learning. With a huge number of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yue Wang , Zhi Tian , FXin Fan , Zhipeng Cai , Cameron Nowzari , Kai Zeng

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has driven smart health with next-generation wireless communication technologies, stimulating exciting applications in remote diagnosis and intervention. To enable a timely and effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Fupei Guo , Hao Zheng , Xiang Zhang , Li Chen , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang

In this paper, the problem of spectral-efficient communication and computation resource allocation for distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assisted probabilistic semantic communication (PSC) in industrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Li Wei , Qianqian Yang , Caijun Zhong , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

With the proliferation of versatile Internet of Things (IoT) services, smart IoT devices are increasingly deployed at the edge of wireless networks to perform collaborative machine learning tasks using locally collected data, giving rise to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yue Wang , Zhi Tian , Xin Fan , Yan Huo , Cameron Nowzari , Kai Zeng

Owing to the large volume of sensed data from the enormous number of IoT devices in operation today, centralized machine learning algorithms operating on such data incur an unbearable training time, and thus cannot satisfy the requirements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Shashank Jere , Qiang Fan , Bodong Shang , Lianjun Li , Lingjia Liu

Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

Supporting Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) era is challenging due to stringent constraints on latency and reliability combined with the simple circuitry of IoT nodes. Diversity is usually…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Hirley Alves