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Semantic Communication (SemCom) is envisaged as the next-generation paradigm to address challenges stemming from the conflicts between the increasing volume of transmission data and the scarcity of spectrum resources. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yuping Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

Today, data is growing at a tremendous rate and, according to the International Data Corporation, it is expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. The International Data Corporation also forecasts that more than 150B devices will be…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Valentina Janev

With the advancement of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is crucial for perceiving and interacting with the environment via electromagnetic propagation, termed channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Zhengyu Zhang , Ruisi He , Bo Ai , Mi Yang , Xuejian Zhang , Ziyi Qi , Zhangdui Zhong

The research in the sixth generation of communication networks needs to tackle new challenges in order to meet the requirements of emerging applications in terms of high data rate, low latency, high reliability, and massive connectivity. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Marwa Chafii , Lina Bariah , Sami Muhaidat , Merouane Debbah

Semantic communications have emerged as a crucial research direction for future wireless communication networks. However, as wireless systems become increasingly complex, the demands for computation and communication resources in semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Xuyang Chen , Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Daquan Feng , Pei Xiao

With the advent of Fifth Generation (5G) and Sixth Generation (6G) communication technologies, as well as the Internet of Things (IoT), semantic communication is gaining attention among researchers as current communication technologies are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Alakesh Kalita

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques play a pivotal role in optimizing wireless communication networks. However, traditional deep learning approaches often act as closed boxes, lacking the structured reasoning abilities needed to tackle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haoxiang Luo , Yu Yan , Yanhui Bian , Wenjiao Feng , Ruichen Zhang , Yinqiu Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Gang Sun , Dusit Niyato , Hongfang Yu , Abbas Jamalipour , Shiwen Mao

Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Generative foundation AI models have recently shown great success in synthesizing natural signals with high perceptual quality using only textual prompts and conditioning signals to guide the generation process. This enables semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Li Qiao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Zhen Gao , Chuan Heng Foh , Pei Xiao , Mehdi Bennis

Mathematical analysis has long underpinned wireless communication theory, yet the growing complexity of next-generation systems demands increasingly sophisticated reasoning from domain experts. Recent advances in AI mathematical reasoning,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Changyuan Zhao , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zan Li , Abbas Jamalipour , Shiwen Mao , Xianbin Wang , Dong In Kim

This paper investigates the advantages of representing and processing semantic knowledge extracted into graphs within the emerging paradigm of semantic communications. The proposed approach leverages semantic and pragmatic aspects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nour Hello , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Semantic communication (SC) goes beyond technical communication in which a given sequence of bits or symbols, often referred to as information, is be transmitted reliably over a noisy channel, regardless of its meaning. In SC, conveying the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jinho Choi , Jihong Park

In modern machine learning, pattern recognition replaces realtime semantic reasoning. The mapping from input to output is learned with fixed semantics by training outcomes deliberately. This is an expensive and static approach which depends…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Mark Burgess

Shannon's information theory deliberately excludes message semantics. This paper develops a rigorous framework for semantic communication that integrates formal proof systems with Shannon-theoretic tools. We introduce an axiomatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianfeng Xu

Upon the arrival of emerging devices, including Extended Reality (XR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the traditional communication framework is approaching Shannon's physical capacity limit and fails to guarantee the massive amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Xiaonan Liu , Nikolaos Pappas , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Several speculative visions are conjecturing on what 6G services will be able to offer at the horizon of 2030. Nevertheless, the 6G design process is at its preliminary stages. The reality today is that hardware, technologies and new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Didier Belot , Alexis Falempin , Jean-Baptiste Doré

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made a significant breakthrough in generative modeling. The combination of the generative model and semantic communication (SemCom) enables high-fidelity semantic information exchange at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli