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Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper investigates semantic communications between a transmitter and a receiver, where original data, such as videos of interest to the receiver, is stored at the transmitter. Although significant process has been made in semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xunze Liu , Yifei Sun , Zhaorui Wang , Lizhao You , Haoyuan Pan , Fangxin Wang , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communication (SC) offers promising advancements in data transmission efficiency and reliability by focusing on delivering true meaning rather than solely binary bits of messages. However, privacy concerns in SC might become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuesong Liu , Yao Sun , Runze Cheng , Le Xia , Hanaa Abumarshoud , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the challenges of next-generation communication networks. While some progress has been made in its conceptualization, fundamental questions remain unresolved. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning and natural language processing technologies, semantic communication has become a topic of great interest in the field of communication. Although existing deep learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingyan Wang , Rongpeng Li , Jianhang Zhu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

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

Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of wireless technology, the so-called 5G and beyond, promises to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Guangming Shi , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Xuemei Xie

Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

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

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

Semantic communication aims to facilitate purposeful information exchange among diverse intelligent entities, including humans, machines, and organisms. It emphasizes precise semantic transmission over data fidelity, striving for meaningful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuntao Wang

As our world grows increasingly connected and new technologies arise, global demands for data traffic continue to rise exponentially. Limited by the fundamental results of information theory, to meet these demands we are forced to either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Semantic communication, regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, aims at the successful transmission of semantic information conveyed by the source rather than the accurate reception of each single symbol or bit regardless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Wen Tong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

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 communications focus on prioritizing the understanding of the meaning behind transmitted data and ensuring the successful completion of tasks that motivate the exchange of information. However, when devices rely on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Simone Fiorellino , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

In this study, we design a low-complexity and generalized AI model that can capture common knowledge to improve data reconstruction of the channel decoder for semantic communication. Specifically, we propose a generative adversarial network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Nguyen H. Tran , Hoang-Khoi Do , Duy T. Ngo , Won-Joo Hwang

Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

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