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Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication aims to facilitate purposeful information exchange among diverse intelligent entities, including humans, machines, and organisms. It emphasizes precise semantic transmission over data fidelity, striving for meaningful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuntao Wang

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

In the coming sixth generation (6G) communication era, to provide seamless and ubiquitous connections, the space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN) is envisioned to address the challenges of communication coverage in areas with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Siqi Meng , Shaohua Wu , Jiaming Zhang , Junlan Cheng , Haibo Zhou , Qinyu Zhang

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 is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the meaning behind a transmitted message by transmitting only semantically-relevant information. This semantic-centric design helps to minimize power usage, bandwidth consumption, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tilahun M. Getu , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis

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

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Since Shannon's pioneering masterpiece which established the prototype of modern information theory, the goal of communications has long been promising accurate message reconstruction at a refined bit-by-bit level, which deliberately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Siqi Meng , Rongxing Lu , Sumei Sun , Qinyu Zhang

Despite the fact that Shannon and Weaver's Mathematical Theory of Communication was published over 70 years ago, all communication systems continue to operate at the first of three levels defined in this theory: the technical level. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

This work proposes a novel computing performance unit grounded in information theory. Modern computing systems are increasingly diverse, supporting low-precision formats, hardware specialization, and emerging paradigms such as analog,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Max Hawkins , Richard Vuduc

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for future wireless networks by prioritizing task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving efficiency. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuanyuan Jia , Junyu Pan , Shuo Shao , Jincheng Dai , Meixia Tao , Ping Zhang

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

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication is a promising technique for emerging wireless applications, which reduces transmission overhead by transmitting only task-relevant features instead of raw data. However, existing methods struggle under extremely low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Peiwen Jiang , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

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

With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on high transmission rate to a new architecture that is based on the intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Wanting Yang , Hongyang Du , Ziqin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao