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Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems have garnered significant attention due to their capability to simultaneously achieve efficient communication and environmental sensing. A core objective in this field is characterizing…

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With the recent advancements in edge artificial intelligence (AI), future sixth-generation (6G) networks need to support new AI tasks such as classification and clustering apart from data recovery. Motivated by the success of deep learning,…

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This paper proposes a task-oriented co-design framework that integrates communication, computing, and control to address the key challenges of bandwidth limitations, noise interference, and latency in mission-critical industrial…

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Generative joint source-channel coding (GJSCC) has emerged as a new Deep JSCC paradigm for achieving high-fidelity and robust image transmission under extreme wireless channel conditions, such as ultra-low bandwidth and low signal-to-noise…

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Encoding only the task-related information from the raw data, \ie, disentangled representation learning, can greatly contribute to the robustness and generalizability of models. Although significant advances have been made by regularizing…

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

By extracting task-relevant information while maximally compressing the input, the information bottleneck (IB) principle has provided a guideline for learning effective and robust representations of the target inference. However, extending…

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Significant progress has been made in wireless Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) using deep learning techniques. The latest DL-based image JSCC methods have demonstrated exceptional performance during transmission, while also avoiding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Hongjie Yuan , Weizhang Xu , Yuhuan Wang , Xingxing Wang

Efficient data transmission across mobile multi-hop networks that connect edge devices to core servers presents significant challenges, particularly due to the variability in link qualities between wireless and wired segments. This…

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Despite its notable success in adversarial learning approaches to multi-domain task-oriented dialog system, training the dialog policy via adversarial inverse reinforcement learning often fails to balance the performance of the policy…

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This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

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Deep joint source-channel coding (deepJSCC) methods have shown promising improvements in communication performance over wireless networks. However, existing approaches primarily focus on enhancing overall image reconstruction quality, which…

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This work considers a layered coding approach for efficient transmission of data over a wireless block fading channel without transmitter channel state information (CSI), which is connected to a limited capacity reliable link, known as the…

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Recent studies in joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have fostered a fresh paradigm in end-to-end semantic communication. Despite notable performance achievements, present initiatives in building semantic communication systems primarily…

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We propose a novel hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for robust image transmission over multi-hop networks. In the considered scenario, a mobile user wants to deliver an image to its destination over a mobile cellular…

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This letter introduces a multi-rate task-oriented communication (MR-ToC) framework. This framework dynamically adapts to variations in affordable data rate within the communication pipeline. It conceptualizes communication pipelines as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weiwen Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chongjie Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Wei , Dong In Kim , Shuguang Cui

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xue Han , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Biqian Feng , Yuxuan Shi , Deniz Gündüz , Wenjun Zhang

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…

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