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Physical layer network coding (PNC) has been proposed for next generation networks. In this contribution, we investigate PNC schemes with embedded perfect secrecy by exploiting structured interference in relay networks with two users and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-02 David Karpuk , Arsenia Chorti

We present an optimal decoder for physical-layer network coding (PNC) in a multipath fading channels. Previous studies on PNC have largely focused on the single path case. For PNC, multipath not only introduces inter-symbol interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Minglong Zhang , Lu Lu , Soung-Chang Liew

This work considers the protograph-coded physical network coding (PNC) based on Alamouti space-time block coding (STBC) over Nakagami-fading two-way relay channels, in which both the two sources and relay possess two antennas. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yi Fang , Lin Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong

Network coding (NC), in principle, is a Layer-3 innovation that improves network throughput in wired networks for multicast/broadcast scenarios. Due to the fundamental differences between wired and wireless networks, extending NC to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Mohammad H. Firooz , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy , Hui Liu

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Deep learning based semantic communication (DeepSC) system has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient wireless transmission. However, existing image DeepSC methods, frequently encounter challenges in balancing rate-distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

This paper investigates various subtleties of applying linear physical-layer network coding (PNC) with q-level pulse amplitude modulation (q-PAM) in two-way relay channels (TWRC). A critical issue is how the PNC system performs when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Long Shi , Soung Chang Liew , Lu Lu

As one novel approach to realize end-to-end wireless image semantic transmission, deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) method is emerging in both deep learning and communication communities. However, current deep JSCC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jun Wang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Zhongwei Si , Dekun Zhou , Kai Niu

In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-aided image communication framework for supporting the compatibility with practical separation-based coding architectures. Particularly, the deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Merouane Debbah , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

In this paper we propose a novel power adapted network coding (PANC) for a non-orthogonal multiple-access relay channel (MARC), where two sources transmit their information simultaneously to the destination with the help of a relay.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Sha Wei , Jun Li , Wen Chen , Hang Su , Zihuai Lin , Branka Vucetic

This paper investigates the application of physical-layer network coding (PNC) to Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) where a controller and a robot are out of each other's transmission range, and they exchange messages with the assistance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zhaorui Wang , Ling Liu , Shengli Zhang , Pengpeng Dong , Qing Yang , Taotao Wang

Semantic communication (SC) aims to reduce transmission overhead by conveying task-relevant information rather than raw data. However, existing SC approaches for video largely focus on pixel-level reconstruction or rely on complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phuc H. Nguyen , Trung T. Nguyen , Quy N. Duong , Van-Dinh Nguyen

Cross-technology communication(CTC) enables seamless interactions between diverse wireless technologies. Most existing work is based on reversing the transmission path to identify the appropriate payload to generate the waveform that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Haoyu Wang , Jiazhao Wang , Demin Gao , Wenchao Jiang

Interference in wireless networks is one of the key-capacity limiting factor. The multicast capacity of an ad- hoc wireless network decreases with an increasing number of transmitting and/or receiving nodes within a fixed area. Digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Jalaluddin Qureshi , Chuan Heng Foh , Jianfei Cai

In asynchronous physical-layer network coding (APNC) systems, the symbols from multiple transmitters to a common receiver may be misaligned. The knowledge of the amount of symbol misalignment, hence its estimation, is important to PNC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yulin Shao , Soung Chang Liew , Lu Lu

In bidirectional relaying using Physical Layer Network Coding (PLNC), it is generally assumed that users employ same modulation schemes in the Multiple Access phase. However, as observed by Zhang et al., it may not be desirable for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chinmayananda A. , Saket D. Buch , B. Sundar Rajan

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Mingyang Sun , Jiming Chen

In this paper, we investigate the joint design of channel and network coding in bi-directional relaying systems and propose a combined low complexity physical network coding and LDPC decoding scheme. For the same LDPC codes employed at both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Kui Xu , Zhenxing Lv , Youyun Xu , Dongmei Zhang , Xinyi Zhong , Wenwen Liang

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive investigation of complex linear physical-layer network (PNC) in two-way relay channels (TWRC). A critical question at relay R is as follows: "Given channel gain ratio $\eta = h_A/h_B$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Long Shi , Soung Chang Liew