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Physical-layer network coding (PNC) is now well-known as a potential candidate for delay-sensitive and spectrally efficient communication applications, especially in two-way relay channels (TWRCs). In this paper, we present the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Vaibhav Kumar , Barry Cardiff , Mark F. Flanagan

Analog network coding (ANC) is a throughput increasing technique for the two-way relay channel (TWRC) whereby two end nodes transmit simultaneously to a relay at the same time and band, followed by the relay broadcasting the received sum of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Terry Ferrett , Matthew C. Valenti

This paper investigates ARQ (Automatic Repeat request) designs for PNC (Physical-layer Network Coding) systems. We have previously found that, besides TWRC (Two-Way Relay Channel) operated on the principle of PNC, there are many other PNC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Jianghao He , Soung-Chang Liew

We consider the problem of joint source-channel coding for semantic communication from a rateless perspective, the purpose of which is to settle the balance between reliability (distortion/perception) and effectiveness (rate) of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao

We consider a cognitive radio network scenario where a primary transmitter and a secondary transmitter, respectively, communicate a message to their respective primary receiver and secondary receiver over a packet-based wireless link, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Nan Li , Lars K. Rasmussen , Ming Xiao

Deep learning based semantic communication(DLSC) systems have shown great potential of making wireless networks significantly more efficient by only transmitting the semantics of the data. However, the open nature of wireless channel and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qi Qin , Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Shaokang Wu , Xuefei Zhang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Recent deep learning methods have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems. These methods, we call nonlinear transform source-channel coding (NTSCC), extract the semantic latent features of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Recent advances in semantic communication (SC) have introduced neural network (NN)-based transceivers that convey semantic representation (SR) of signals such as images. However, these NNs are trained over diverse image distributions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

The two-phase MIMO NC (network coding) scheme can be used to boost the throughput in a two-way relay channel in which nodes are equipped with multiple antennas. The obvious strategy is for the relay node to extract the individual packets…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Shengli Zhang , Soung-Chang Liew

This paper investigates the capacity of a wireless two way relay channel in which two end nodes exchange information via a relay node. The capacity is defined in the information-theoretic sense as the maximum information exchange rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-22 Zhang Shengli , Soung Chang Liew

In this paper, we consider general two-way relay networks (TWRNs) with two source and N relay nodes. A distributed differential space time coding with analog network coding (DDSTC-ANC) scheme is proposed. A simple blind estimation and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Qiang Huo , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Bingli Jiao

Semantic communication can improve transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, under packet-based communication protocols, any error typically results in the loss of an entire packet, making semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Xiao Yang , Shuai Ma , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi

Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Shuai Lyu , Yao Sun , Linke Guo , Xiaoyong Yuan , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

The emerging field semantic communication is driving the research of end-to-end data transmission. By utilizing the powerful representation ability of deep learning models, learned data transmission schemes have exhibited superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Ke Yang , Kailin Tan , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

We consider efficient communications over the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiway distributed relay channel (MDRC) with full data exchange, where each user, equipped with multiple antennas, broadcasts its message to all the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Xiang Zhao , Jianwen Zhang , Yingjun Zhang , Xiaojun Yuan

Semantic communications learned on background knowledge bases (KBs) have been identified as a promising technology for communications between intelligent agents. Existing works assume that transceivers of semantic communications share the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo

Ultra-high-resolution streaming and emerging immersive services are driving rapidly increasing wireless video traffic. However, perceptually pleasing video transmission over bandwidth-limited and latency-constrained wireless links remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

For MIMO two-way relay channel, this paper proposes a novel scheme, VBLAST-PNC, to transform the two superimposed packets received by the relay to their network coding form. Different from traditional schemes, which tries to detect each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Shengli Zhang , Canping Nie , Liya Lu , Gongbin Qian

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

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