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One of the key aspects of Shannon's theory is that it provides guidance for designing the most efficient systems, such as minimizing errors and clarifying the limits of coding. Such theories have made great developments in the 50 years…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Osamu Hirota

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

While semantic communication succeeds in efficiently transmitting due to the strong capability to extract the essential semantic information, it is still far from the intelligent or human-like communications. In this paper, we introduce an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

A radical paradigm shift of wireless networks from ``connected things'' to ``connected intelligence'' undergoes, which coincides with the Shanno and Weaver's envisions: Communications will transform from the technical level to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yang Yang , Caili Guo , Fangfang Liu , Chuanhong Liu , Lunan Sun , Qizheng Sun , Jiujiu Chen

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

The increasing popularity of applications like the Metaverse has led to the exploration of new, more effective ways of communication. Semantic communication, which focuses on the meaning behind transmitted information, represents a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao

Deep learning enabled semantic communications have shown great potential to significantly improve transmission efficiency and alleviate spectrum scarcity, by effectively exchanging the semantics behind the data. Recently, the emergence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Zhu Han

Information theory, introduced by Shannon, has been extremely successful and influential as a mathematical theory of communication. Shannon's notion of information does not consider the meaning of the messages being communicated but only…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-17 Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Giulio Tononi

This paper addresses the challenge of integrating semantic communication principles into operated networks, traditionally optimized based on network-centric metrics rather than application-specific needs. Operated networks strongly adhere…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Quentin Lampin , Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Guillaume Larue

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

From a traditional point of view, the value of information does not change during transmission. The Shannon information theory considers information transmission as a statistical phenomenon for measuring the communication channel capacity.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Min Chen , Yixue Hao , Hamid Gharavi , Victor C. M. Leung

Semantic communication initiates a new direction for future communication. In this paper, we aim to establish a systematic framework of semantic information theory (SIT). First, we propose a semantic communication model and define the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

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 an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

Does semantic communication require a semantic information theory parallel to Shannon's information theory, or can Shannon's work be generalized for semantic communication? This paper advocates for the latter and introduces a semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chenguang Lu

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, next-generation wireless communication network is facing unprecedented challenge. Semantic communication has become a novel solution to address such challenges, with enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Zihe Zhao , Chunyue Wang

Semantic communication is widely touted as a key technology for propelling the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. However, providing effective semantic representation is quite challenging in practice. To address this issue, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinke Ren , Zezhong Zhang , Jie Xu , Guanying Chen , Yaping Sun , Ping Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communication (SemCom) is regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology in 6G, aiming to transcend the constraints of ``Shannon's trap" by filtering out redundant information and extracting the core of effective data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yining Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Suyu Lv , Zhidi Zhang , Mengying Sun , Shujun Han , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang