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Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

Achieving artificially intelligent-native wireless networks is necessary for the operation of future 6G applications such as the metaverse. Nonetheless, current communication schemes are, at heart, a mere reconstruction process that lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

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

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 and edge-cloud collaborative intelligence are increasingly recognized as foundational enablers for next-generation intelligent services operating under stringent bandwidth, latency, and resource constraints. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Murdadha Nasif , Ahmed Refaey Hussein

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

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

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, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques, emerges as a new paradigm that meets the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. However, current semantic communication systems, which employ neural coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

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

Communication systems to date primarily aim at reliably communicating bit sequences. Such an approach provides efficient engineering designs that are agnostic to the meanings of the messages or to the goal that the message exchange aims to…

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

With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on high transmission rate to a new architecture that is based on the intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Wanting Yang , Hongyang Du , Ziqin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao

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

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

Semantic communication (SC) aims to communicate reliably with minimal data transfer while simultaneously providing seamless connectivity to heterogeneous services and users. In this paper, a novel emergent SC (ESC) system framework is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

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

Despite the basic premise that next-generation wireless networks (e.g., 6G) will be artificial intelligence (AI)-native, to date, most existing efforts remain either qualitative or incremental extensions to existing "AI for wireless"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Choong Seon Hong