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Semantic communications (SC) is an emerging communication paradigm in which wireless devices can send only relevant information from a source of data while relying on computing resources to regenerate missing data points. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

Semantic communications are expected to accomplish various semantic tasks with relatively less spectrum resource by exploiting the semantic feature of source data. To simultaneously serve both the data transmission and semantic tasks, joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jianhao Huang , Dongxu Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Wei Zhang

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

We study the problem of rate-distortion-equivocation with side-information only available at the decoder when an independent private random key is shared between the sender and the receiver. The sender compresses the sequence, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hamid Ghourchian , Photios A. Stavrou , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

This paper investigates the optimization of transmitting the encoder outputs, termed semantic features (SFs), in semantic communication (SC). We begin by modeling the entire communication process from the encoder output to the decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yongjeong Oh , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Yo-Seb Jeon

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

In this study, Nash and Stackelberg equilibria of single-stage and multi-stage quadratic signaling games between an encoder and a decoder are investigated. In the considered setup, the objective functions of the encoder and the decoder are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Serkan Sarıtaş , Photios A. Stavrou , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

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

We consider a real-time communication system with noisy feedback consisting of a Markov source, a forward and a backward discrete memoryless channels, and a receiver with finite memory. The objective is to design an optimal communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-25 Aditya Mahajan , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Semantic communication has gained attention as a key enabler for intelligent and context-aware communication. However, one of the key challenges of semantic communications is the need to tailor the resource allocation to meet the specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ouiame Marnissi , Hajar EL Hammouti , El Houcine Bergou

We introduce a model of estimation in the presence of strategic, self-interested sensors. We employ a game-theoretic setup to model the interaction between the sensors and the receiver. The cost function of the receiver is equal to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Farhad Farokhi , Andre M. H. Teixeira , Cedric Langbort

We consider a remote estimation problem with an energy harvesting sensor and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the state of a discrete-time source which may be a finite state Markov chain or a multi-dimensional linear Gaussian system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ashutosh Nayyar , Tamer Basar , Demosthenis Teneketzis , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We analyze Stackelberg Gaussian signaling games where the encoder and decoder have a linear sensitivity mismatch. Unlike the standard additive-bias model, a sensitivity mismatch means the encoder prefers the decoder to track a linear…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hassan Munif , Vineeth Satheeskumar Varma , Samson Lasaulce

Semantic communication, enabled by deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC), is widely expected to inherit the vulnerability of deep learning to adversarial perturbations. This paper challenges this prevailing belief and reveals a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Hongyu An , Zhijin Qin , Kaibin Huang

This paper analyzes a dynamic interaction between a fully rational, privately informed sender and a boundedly rational, uninformed receiver with memory constraints. The sender controls the flow of information, while the receiver designs a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-12 Qingmin Liu , Yuyang Miao

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

Semantic communications target to reliably convey the semantic meaning of messages. It is different from existing communication systems focusing on reliable bit transmission. To achieve the goal of semantic communications, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Peng Zhang

The problem of state communication over a discrete memoryless channel with discrete memoryless state is studied when the state information is available strictly causally at the encoder. It is shown that block Markov encoding, in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Chiranjib Choudhuri , Young-Han Kim , Urbashi Mitra

Shannon's channel coding theorem characterizes the maximal rate of information that can be reliably transmitted over a communication channel when optimal encoding and decoding strategies are used. In many scenarios, however, practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jonathan Scarlett , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Anelia Somekh-Baruch , Alfonso Martinez