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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

Along with the proliferating research interest in Semantic Communication (SemCom), Joint Source Channel Coding (JSCC) has dominated the attention due to the widely assumed existence in efficiently delivering information semantics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tianqi Ren , Rongpeng Li , Ming-min Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Guangyi Liu , Yang Yang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

Semantic communications, a promising approach for agent-human and agent-agent interactions, typically operate at a feature level, lacking true semantic understanding. This paper explores understanding-level semantic communications (ULSC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Jia Ye , Anbang Zhang , Kun Xu

5G has expanded the traditional focus of wireless systems to embrace two new connectivity types: ultra-reliable low latency and massive communication. The technology context at the dawn of 6G is different from the past one for 5G, primarily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Federico Chiariotti , Kaibin Huang , Anders E. Kalør , Szymon Kobus , Petar Popovski

The growing proliferation of distributed information systems, allows organizations to offer their business processes to a worldwide audience through Web services. Semantic Web services have emerged as a means to achieve the vision of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Keyvan Mohebbi , Suhaimi Ibrahim , Norbik Bashah Idris

Along with the springing up of the semantics-empowered communication (SemCom) research, it is now witnessing an unprecedentedly growing interest towards a wide range of aspects (e.g., theories, applications, metrics and implementations) in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhilin Lu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Xianfu Chen , Ekram Hossain , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Deep learning-empowered semantic communication is regarded as a promising candidate for future 6G networks. Although existing semantic communication systems have achieved superior performance compared to traditional methods, the end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Peng Yi , Yang Cao , Xin Kang , Ying-Chang Liang

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

Semantic communication is deemed as a revolution of Shannon's paradigm in the six-generation (6G) wireless networks. It aims at transmitting the extracted information rather than the original data, which receivers will try to recover.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

The Internet of Sounds (IoS) combines sound sensing, processing, and transmission techniques, enabling collaboration among diverse sound devices. To achieve perceptual quality of sound synchronization in the IoS, it is necessary to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Chengsi Liang , Yao Sun , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Lina Mohjazi , Walid Saad

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Traditional joint source-channel coding employs static learned semantic representations that cannot dynamically adapt to evolving source distributions. Shared semantic memories between transmitter and receiver can potentially enable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Karim Nasreddine , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

Semantic encoders and decoders for digital semantic communication (SC) often struggle to adapt to variations in unpredictable channel environments and diverse system designs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yongjeong Oh , Joohyuk Park , Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

This paper introduces SA-OOSC, a multimodal large language models (MLLM)-distilled semantic communication framework that achieves efficient semantic coding with scenario-aware importance allocations. This approach addresses a critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Feifan Zhang , Yuyang Du , Yifan Xiang , Xiaoyan Liu , Soung Chang Liew

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is revolutionizing marine sensing and environmental monitoring, as well as subaquatic exploration, which are enabled by interconnected and intelligent subsystems. Nevertheless, underwater…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruhul Amin Khalil , Asiya Jehangir , Hanane Lamaazi , Sadaf Rubab , Nasir Saeed

In 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this, the main theme of wireless system design up until 5G was the data rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Qiao Lan , Dingzhu Wen , Zezhong Zhang , Qunsong Zeng , Xu Chen , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication (SC) is an emerging intelligent paradigm, offering solutions for various future applications like metaverse, mixed reality, and the Internet of Everything. However, in current SC systems, the construction of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Feibo Jiang , Yubo Peng , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

A latent denoising semantic communication (SemCom) framework is proposed for robust image transmission over noisy channels. By incorporating a learnable latent denoiser into the receiver, the received signals are preprocessed to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang