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Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

At the confluence of 6G, deep learning (DL), and natural language processing (NLP), DL-enabled text semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a 6G enabler since it minimizes bandwidth consumption, transmission delay, and power usage.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Tilahun M. Getu , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis

Driven by the vision of "intelligent connection of everything" toward 6G, the collective intelligence of networked machines can be fully exploited to improve system efficiency by shifting the paradigm of wireless communication design from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Ping Zhang , Heng Yang , Zhiyong Feng , Yanpeng Cui , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Jinglin Li , Qixun Zhang

Due to the challenges of satisfying the demands for communication efficiency and intelligent connectivity, sixth-generation (6G) wireless network requires new communication frameworks to enable effective information exchange and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Jingqing Wang

For cyber-physical systems in the 6G era, semantic communications connecting distributed devices for dynamic control and remote state estimation are required to guarantee application-level performance, not merely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu , Daniel Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Semantic communication has shown great potential in boosting the effectiveness and reliability of communications. However, its systems to date are mostly enabled by deep learning, which requires demanding computing resources. This article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhijin Qin , Jingkai Ying , Dingxi Yang , Hengjiang Wang , Xiaoming Tao

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that exploits deep learning models to enable end-to-end communications processes, and recent studies have shown that it can achieve better noise resiliency compared with traditional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Wenyu Zhang , Kaiyuan Bai , Sherali Zeadally , Haijun Zhang , Hua Shao , Hui Ma , Victor C. M. Leung

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems require large antenna arrays and use narrow directive beams to ensure sufficient receive signal power. However, selecting the optimal beams for these large antenna arrays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper explores opportunities and challenges of task (goal)-oriented and semantic communications for next-generation (NextG) communication networks through the integration of multi-task learning. This approach employs deep neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

Semantic communication serves as a novel paradigm and attracts the broad interest of researchers. One critical aspect of it is the multi-user semantic communication theory, which can further promote its application to the practical network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Weizhi Li , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Kaijun Liu

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising approach for improving efficient transmission in the next generation of wireless networks. Inspired by the success of semantic communication in different areas, we aim to provide a new…

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

Semantic communication, as a novel communication paradigm, has attracted the interest of many scholars, with multi-user, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) scenarios being one of the critical contexts. This paper presents a semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Wannian An , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

Existing deep learning-enabled semantic communication systems often rely on shared background knowledge between the transmitter and receiver that includes empirical data and their associated semantic information. In practice, the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hongwei Zhang , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao , Xiaoyan Bi , Khaled B. Letaief

Differing from the conventional communication system paradigm that models information source as a sequence of (i.i.d. or stationary) random variables, the semantic approach aims at extracting and sending the high-level features of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mingxiao Li , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

Deep learning-empowered semantic communication is regarded as a promising candidate for future 6G networks. Although existing semantic communication systems have achieved superior performance compared to traditional methods, the end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Peng Yi , Yang Cao , Xin Kang , Ying-Chang Liang

Semantic communication has gained significant attention from researchers as a promising technique to replace conventional communication in the next generation of communication systems, primarily due to its ability to reduce communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Ye Lin Tun , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chaoning Zhang , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

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 focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo