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Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for communication. As a result, the establishment of a semantic communication framework is putting on the agenda. Based on a realistic semantic communication model, this paper develops a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yi-Qun Zhao , Zhi-Ming Ma , Geoffrey Ye Li , Shuai Yuan , Tong Ye , Chuan Zhou

Mobile devices increasingly require the parallel execution of several computing tasks offloaded at the wireless edge. Existing communication systems only support parallel transmissions at the bit level, which fundamentally limits the number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Mohammad Abdi , Francesca Meneghello , Francesco Restuccia

Today, the vast majority of the world's digital information is represented using the fundamental assumption, introduced by Claude Shannon in 1948, that ``...the semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem (of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luis A. Lastras , Barry Trager , Jonathan Lenchner , Wojtek Szpankowski , Chai Wah Wu , Mark Squillante , Ron Fagin , Alex Gray

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology that has attracted much attention in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. However, few literature has fully considered the perceptual quality of the reconstructed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Transformers, known for their attention mechanisms, have proven highly effective in focusing on critical elements within complex data. This feature can effectively be used to address the time-varying channels in wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware speech-to-text transmission system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

Underwater communication is essential for environmental monitoring, marine biology research, and underwater exploration. Traditional underwater communication faces limitations like low bandwidth, high latency, and susceptibility to noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weilong Chen , Wenxuan Xu , Haoran Chen , Xinran Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yanru Zhang , Zhu Han

Camera sensors have been widely used in intelligent robotic systems. Developing camera sensors with high sensing efficiency has always been important to reduce the power, memory, and other related resources. Inspired by recent success on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Bowen Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology aiming to surpass the Shannon limit. Traditional SC strategies often minimize signal distortion between the original and reconstructed data, neglecting perceptual quality, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Rui Li , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

Does semantic communication require a semantic information theory parallel to Shannon's information theory, or can Shannon's work be generalized for semantic communication? This paper advocates for the latter and introduces a semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chenguang Lu

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

Semantic communication is an important participant in the next generation of wireless communications. Enabled by this novel paradigm, the conventional Internet-of-Things (IoT) is evolving toward the semantic IoT (SIoT) to achieve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hongyang Du , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mohsen Guizani , Dong In Kim

Semantic communications have shown promising advancements by optimizing source and channel coding jointly. However, the dynamics of these systems remain understudied, limiting research and performance gains. Inspired by the robustness of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Linglong Dai , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Task-oriented semantic communication is an emerging technology that transmits only the relevant semantics of a message instead of the whole message to achieve a specific task. It reduces latency, compresses the data, and is more robust in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

We relax the constraint of a shared language between agents in a semantic and goal-oriented communication system to explore the effect of language mismatch in distributed task solving. We propose a mathematical framework, which provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Quantum communication networks (QCNs) utilize quantum mechanics for secure information transmission, but the reliance on fragile and expensive photonic quantum resources renders QCN resource optimization challenging. Unlike prior QCN works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mahdi Chehimi , Christina Chaccour , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic vectors are learned from data to express semantic relationships between elements of information, for the purpose of solving and informing downstream tasks. Other models exist that learn to map and classify supervised data. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Peter Sutor , Douglas Summers-Stay , Yiannis Aloimonos