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We consider transmission of stationary and ergodic sources over non-ergodic composite channels with channel state information at the receiver (CSIR). Previously we introduced alternate capacity definitions to Shannon capacity, including the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-27 Yifan Liang , Andrea Goldsmith , Michelle Effros

Since Shannon's pioneering masterpiece which established the prototype of modern information theory, the goal of communications has long been promising accurate message reconstruction at a refined bit-by-bit level, which deliberately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Siqi Meng , Rongxing Lu , Sumei Sun , Qinyu Zhang

Semantic communication enables intelligent agents to extract meaning (or semantics) of information via interaction, to carry out collaborative tasks. In this paper, we study semantic communication from a topological space perspective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Qiyang Zhao , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , Daniel Benevides da Costa

With the emergence of the metaverse and its role in enabling real-time simulation and analysis of real-world counterparts, an increasing number of personalized metaverse scenarios are being created to influence entertainment experiences and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Zhe Wang , Nan Li , Yansha Deng

Semantic vectors are learned from data to express semantic relationships between elements of information, for the purpose of solving and informing downstream tasks. Other models exist that learn to map and classify supervised data. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Peter Sutor , Douglas Summers-Stay , Yiannis Aloimonos

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising approach for improving efficient transmission in the next generation of wireless networks. Inspired by the success of semantic communication in different areas, we aim to provide a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

Wireless extended reality (XR) has attracted wide attentions as a promising technology to improve users' mobility and quality of experience. However, the ultra-high data rate requirement of wireless XR has hindered its development for many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Bowen Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication has drawn substantial attention as a promising paradigm to achieve effective and intelligent communications. However, efficient image semantic communication encounters challenges with a lower testing compression ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shuling Li , Yaping Sun , Jinbei Zhang , Kechao Cai , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong Xu

The exponential growth of wireless users and bandwidth constraints necessitates innovative communication paradigms for next-generation networks. Semantic Communication (SemCom) emerges as a promising solution by transmitting extracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Yingzhuo Sun , Jingwen Fu , Alper Kose , Leila Musavian , Ming Xiao , Berna Ozbek

Semantic communication (SemCom) emerges as a transformative paradigm for traffic-intensive visual data transmission, shifting focus from raw data to meaningful content transmission and relieving the increasing pressure on communication…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Runze Cheng , Yao Sun , Ahmad Taha , Xuesong Liu , David Flynn , Muhammad Ali Imran

We propose semantic communication over wireless channels for various modalities, e.g., text and images, in a task-oriented communications setup where the task is classification. We present two approaches based on memory and learning. Both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Emrecan Kutay , Aylin Yener

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

The surge in connected devices in 6G with typical complex tasks requiring multi-user cooperation, such as smart agriculture and smart cities, poses significant challenges to unsustainable traditional communication. Fortunately, the booming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

Deep learning (DL)-based Semantic Communications (SemCom) is becoming critical to maximize overall efficiency of communication networks. Nevertheless, SemCom is sensitive to wireless channel uncertainties, source outliers, and suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jianhua Pei , Cheng Feng , Ping Wang , Hina Tabassum , Dongyuan Shi

Shannon theory models communication as the reliable transfer of symbol sequences, with performance governed by capacity and rate-distortion limits. When both endpoints possess strong predictors -- as in modern large language models and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ozgur Ercetin , Mohaned Chraiti

Semantic communications are expected to enable the more effective delivery of meaning rather than a precise transfer of symbols. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network-based architecture for image transmission and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Taehun Jung , Linglong Dai , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

Deep learning based semantic communication has achieved significant progress in wireless image transmission, but most existing schemes rely on fixed models and thus lack robustness to diverse image contents and dynamic channel conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang

This paper addresses the challenge of integrating semantic communication principles into operated networks, traditionally optimized based on network-centric metrics rather than application-specific needs. Operated networks strongly adhere…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Quentin Lampin , Louis-Adrien Dufrène , Guillaume Larue

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has emerged as a rapidly burgeoning field demonstrating significant potential in creating diverse contents intelligently and automatically. To support such artificial intelligence-generated content…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Chengsi Liang , Hongyang Du , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Dezong Zhao , Muhammad Ali Imran