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In 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this, the main theme of wireless system design up until 5G was the data rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Qiao Lan , Dingzhu Wen , Zezhong Zhang , Qunsong Zeng , Xu Chen , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Classical communication paradigms focus on accurately transmitting bits over a noisy channel, and Shannon theory provides a fundamental theoretical limit on the rate of reliable communications. In this approach, bits are treated equally,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jincheng Dai , Ping Zhang , Kai Niu , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin

Classical communication paradigms focus on accurately transmitting bits over a noisy channel, and Shannon theory provides a fundamental theoretical limit on the rate of reliable communications. In this approach, bits are treated equally,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jincheng Dai , Ping Zhang , Kai Niu , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin

The development of the new generation of wireless technologies (6G) has led to an increased interest in semantic communication. Thanks also to recent developments in artificial intelligence and communication technologies, researchers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Federico Francesco Luigi Mariani , Michele Zhu , Maurizio Magarini

Semantic communication, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

Semantic communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, semantic inference and semantic error correction have not been well studied. Moreover, error correction methods of existing semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Ming Xu , Lu Yuan , Qihui Wu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks, yet several fundamental challenges remain unresolved. Building on the probabilistic model of semantic communication and leveraging the concept of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

With the exponential surge in traffic data and the pressing need for ultra-low latency in emerging intelligence applications, it is envisioned that 6G networks will demand disruptive communication technologies to foster ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Youlong Wu , Yuanmin Shi , Shuai Ma , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jeonghun Park , Sung Whan Yoon

Each generation of cellular networks is characterized by its distinct capabilities and innovations, which reflect the significant milestones reached with each new release. 5G has made substantial progress through the deployment of advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gabriella Fernandes , Hélder Fontes , Rui Campos

Semantic communication is deemed as a revolution of Shannon's paradigm in the six-generation (6G) wireless networks. It aims at transmitting the extracted information rather than the original data, which receivers will try to recover.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Semantic communication is a new paradigm for information transmission that integrates the essential meaning (semantics) of the message into the communication process. However, like in classic wireless communications, the open nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

Following the recent success of Machine Learning tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

The Shannon-Weaver model of linear information transmission is extended with two loops potentially generating redundancies: (i) meaning is provided locally to the information from the perspective of hindsight, and (ii) meanings can be…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Loet Leydesdorff

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

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 (SC) enables bandwidth-efficient coordination in multi-agent systems by transmitting meaning rather than raw bits. However, when agents employ heterogeneous sensing modalities and AI architectures, perfect bit-level…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Mingzhe Chen

Semantic communication emphasizes the transmission of meaning rather than raw symbols. It offers a promising solution to alleviate network congestion and improve transmission efficiency. In this paper, we propose a wireless image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Chen Zhu , Siyun Liang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Jianrong Bao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication is not focused on improving the accuracy of transmitted symbols, but is concerned with expressing the expected meaning that the symbol sequence exactly carries. However, the measurement of semantic messages and their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Gangtao Xin , Pingyi Fan