English
Related papers

Related papers: Excess Distortion Exponent Analysis for Semantic-A…

200 papers

This paper investigates a key challenge faced by joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in digital semantic communication (SemCom): the incompatibility between existing JSCC schemes that yield continuous encoded representations and digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yujie Zhou , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi

In this paper, we propose two deep joint source and channel coding (DJSCC) structures with attention modules for the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channel, including a serial structure and a parallel structure. With singular value…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Weiran Jiang , Wei Chen , Bo Ai

In this paper, we study the upper and the lower bounds on the joint source-channel coding error exponent with decoder side-information. The results in the paper are non-trivial extensions of the Csiszar's classical paper [5]. Unlike the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-26 Cheng Chang

A novel distributed source coding model which named semantic-aware multi-terminal (MT) source coding is proposed and investigated in the paper, where multiple agents independently encode an imperceptible semantic source, while both semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yuxuan Shi , Shuo Shao , Yongpeng Wu , Jun Chen , Wenjun Zhang

Recent advances in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have enabled efficient semantic communication in dynamic wireless environments. Among these approaches, vector quantization (VQ)-based JSCC effectively maps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Eunsoo Kim , Yoon Huh , Wan Choi

This paper presents the joint impact of the numbers of antennas, source-to-channel bandwidth ratio and spatial correlation on the optimum expected end-to-end distortion in an outage-free MIMO system. In particular, based on an analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Jinhui Chen , Dirk T. M. Slock

The goal of semantic communication is to surpass optimal Shannon's criterion regarding a notable problem for future communication which lies in the integration of collaborative efforts between the intelligence of the transmission source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinchao Zhong , Sean Longyu Ma , Hong-fu Chou , Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

Deep learning based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has demonstrated significant advancements in data reconstruction compared to separate source-channel coding (SSCC). This superiority arises from the suboptimality of SSCC when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Srimat T. Chakradhar , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communication, as a novel communication paradigm, has attracted the interest of many scholars, with multi-user, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) scenarios being one of the critical contexts. This paper presents a semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Wannian An , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are a promising solution for autonomous exploration tasks in hazardous or remote environments, such as planetary surveys. In such settings, communication among agents is essential to ensure collaborative task…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Ban-Sok Shin , Dmitriy Shutin , Armin Dekorsy

We consider transmitting a source across a pair of independent, non-ergodic channels with random states (e.g., slow fading channels) so as to minimize the average distortion. The general problem is unsolved. Hence, we focus on comparing two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 J. Nicholas Laneman , Emin Martinian , Gregory W. Wornell , John G. Apostolopoulos

A joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on hybrid digital/analog coding is proposed for the transmission of correlated sources over discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The scheme utilizes the correlation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

With the recent advancements in edge artificial intelligence (AI), future sixth-generation (6G) networks need to support new AI tasks such as classification and clustering apart from data recovery. Motivated by the success of deep learning,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Bo Ai , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we propose a novel blind multi-input multi-output (MIMO) semantic communication (SC) framework named Blind-MIMOSC that consists of a deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) transmitter and a diffusion-based blind receiver.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Hao Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Yinuo Huang , Qinghua Guo

We propose an adaptive lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for sending correlated sources over two-terminal discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The main idea is to couple the independent operations of the terminals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

In this work we investigate the behavior of the distortion threshold that can be guaranteed in joint source-channel coding, to within a prescribed excess-distortion probability. We show that the gap between this threshold and the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Da Wang , Amir Ingber , Yuval Kochman

Semantic communications have shown great potential to boost the end-to-end transmission performance. To further improve the system efficiency, in this paper, we propose a class of novel semantic coded transmission (SCT) schemes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengshi Yao , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

From the perspective of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), there has been significant research on utilizing semantic communication, which inherently possesses analog characteristics, within digital device environments. However, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Yoon Huh , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) offers a promising avenue for enhancing transmission efficiency by jointly incorporating source and channel statistics into the system design. A key advancement in this area is the deep joint source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Deniz Gündüz

Semantic communications (SemCom) have emerged as a new paradigm for supporting sixth-generation applications, where semantic features of data are transmitted using artificial intelligence algorithms to attain high communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jianhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Chuan Huang , Kaibin Huang