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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Jiawei Shao , Xinjie Zhang , Jun Zhang

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Integrating sensing and communication is a defining theme for future wireless systems. This is motivated by the promising performance gains, especially as they assist each other, and by the better utilization of the wireless and hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Next Generation (NextG) networks are expected to support demanding tactile internet applications such as augmented reality and connected autonomous vehicles. Whereas recent innovations bring the promise of larger link capacity, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Peyman Tehrani , Francesco Restuccia , Marco Levorato

This paper studies task-oriented edge networks where multiple edge internet-of-things nodes execute machine learning tasks with the help of powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) at a network cloud. Separate edge nodes (ENs) result in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Seung-Wook Kim

The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system effectiveness and sustainability. Semantic communication goes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

Signal processing is crucial for satisfying the high data rate requirements of future sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. However, the rapid growth of wireless networks has brought about massive data traffic, which hinders the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Enyu Shi , Bo Ai

New network architectures, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, and next-generation (NextG) cellular systems, put forward emerging challenges to the design of future wireless networks toward ultra-high data rate, massive data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiahao Xue , Zhe Qu , Shangqing Zhao , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

In this paper, reinforcement learning (RL) for network slicing is considered in NextG radio access networks, where the base station (gNodeB) allocates resource blocks (RBs) to the requests of user equipments and aims to maximize the total…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , M. Cenk Gursoy

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks evolve from connecting devices to connecting intelligence. The focus turns to Goal-Oriented Communications, where the effectiveness of communication is assessed through task-level objectives over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Tony Chahoud , Yiqun Wu , Lukas Eller , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone

This paper explores the integration of deep learning techniques for joint sensing and communications, with an extension to semantic communications. The integrated system comprises a transmitter and receiver operating over a wireless…

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Edge Learning (EL) pushes the computational resources toward the edge of 5G/6G network to assist mobile users requesting delay-sensitive and energy-aware intelligent services. A common challenge in running inference tasks from remote is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Francesco Binucci , Paolo Banelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa

The management of future AI-native Next-Generation (NextG) Radio Access Networks (RANs), including 6G and beyond, presents a challenge of immense complexity that exceeds the capabilities of traditional automation. In response, we introduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Michael Adewole , Tobi Awodumila , Pelumi Aderinto

Deep learning has been proven to be a powerful tool for addressing the most significant issues in cognitive radio networks, such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, resource allocation, and security attacks. The utilization of deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal , Ijaz Ahmad , Marko Höyhtyä , Suleman Khan , Andrei Gurtov

The next generation wireless networks (i.e. 5G and beyond), which would be extremely dynamic and complex due to the ultra-dense deployment of heterogeneous networks (HetNets), poses many critical challenges for network planning, operation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Xianbin Wang , Long Bao Le

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…

Prediction has recently been considered as a promising approach to meet low-latency and high-reliability requirements in long-distance haptic communications. However, most of the existing methods did not take features of tasks and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Burak Kizilkaya , Changyang She , Guodong Zhao , Muhammad Ali Imran

With the rapid development and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in next-generation networks (NextG), AI algorithms have provided significant advantages for NextG in terms of frequency spectrum usage, bandwidth, latency,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 M. Kuzlu , F. O. Catak , S. Sarp , U. Cali , O Gueler