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This paper presents a semantic-enhanced receiver framework for transmitting natural language sentences over noisy wireless channels using multiple short block codes. After ASCII encoding, the sentence is divided into segments, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive data to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users under a constraint on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Elif Tuğçe Ceran , Deniz Gündüz , András György

In this work, we study a status update system with a source node sending timely information to the destination through a channel with random delay. We measure the timeliness of the information stored at the receiver via the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jingzhou Sun , Jian Song

We consider a system in which an information source generates independent and identically distributed status update packets from an observed phenomenon that takes $n$ possible values based on a given pmf. These update packets are encoded at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Melih Bastopcu , Baturalp Buyukates , Sennur Ulukus

We develop a coordinated hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) approach. With the proposed scheme, if a user message is correctly decoded in the first HARQ rounds, its spectrum is allocated to other users, to improve the network outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Thomas Eriksson , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recently, semantic communication has been brought to the forefront because of its great success in deep learning (DL), especially Transformer. Even if semantic communication has been successfully applied in the sentence transmission to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

5G new radio (NR) technology is introduced to satisfy more demanding services. Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) requires very low delay compared with the previous techniques. This is hard to achieve when hybrid automatic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Weihang Ding , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this work we consider incremental redundancy (IR) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), where transmission rounds are carried out over independent block-fading channels. We propose the so-called multi-packet HARQ where the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Mohammed Jabi , Aata El Hamss , Leszek Szczecinski , Pablo Piantanida

Modern 5G communication systems implement a combination of error correction and feedback-based erasure correction (HARQ/ARQ) as reliability mechanisms, which can introduce substantial delay and resource inefficiency. We propose forward…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Vipindev Adat Vasudevan , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Benjamin D. Kim , Laura Landon , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Médard

In this paper, we consider a three node relay network comprising a source, a relay, and a destination. The source transmits the message to the destination using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with incremental redundancy (IR). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Ali Chelli , Amir Hadjtaieb , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We develop a framework to optimize the tradeoff between diversity, multiplexing, and delay in MIMO systems to minimize end-to-end distortion. We first focus on the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in MIMO systems, and develop analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-09 Tim Holliday , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Hybrid-ARQ protocols have become common in many packet transmission systems due to their incorporation in various standards. Hybrid-ARQ combines the normal automatic repeat request (ARQ) method with error correction codes to increase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Mayur Agrawal , Zachary Chance , David J. Love , Venkataramanan Balakrishnan

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

Delay tolerant Ad-hoc Networks make use of mobility of relay nodes to compensate for lack of permanent connectivity and thus enable communication between nodes that are out of range of each other. To decrease delivery delay, the information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-01-19 Eitan Altman , Francesco De Pellegrini

Wireless extended reality (XR) has attracted wide attentions as a promising technology to improve users' mobility and quality of experience. However, the ultra-high data rate requirement of wireless XR has hindered its development for many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Bowen Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

We consider a multi-source hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) based system, where a transmitter sends status update packets of random arrival (i.e., uncontrollable sampling) and generate-atwill (i.e., controllable sampling) sources to a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Saeid Sadeghi Vilni , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

We study incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ (IR-HARQ) schemes based on punctured, finite-length, LDPC codes. The transmission is assumed to take place over time varying binary erasure channels, such as mobile wireless channels at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-30 Iryna Andriyanova , Emina Soljanin

For discrete memoryless multiple-access channels, we propose a general definition of variable length codes with a measure of the transmission rates at the receiver side. This gives a receiver perspective on the multiple-access channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-28 Stephane Musy

Hybrid Automatic ReQuest (HARQ) protocol enables reliable communications in wireless systems. Usually, several parallel streams are sent in successive timeslots following a time-sharing approach. Recently, multi-layer HARQ has been proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Alla Khreis , Francesca Bassi , Philippe Ciblat , Pierre Duhamel