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Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

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Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-13 MohammadJavad Salehi , Kari Hooli , Jari Hulkkonen , Antti Tolli

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

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

We introduce a new semantic communication mechanism - SemanticRL, whose key idea is to preserve the semantic information instead of strictly securing the bit-level precision. Unlike previous methods that mainly concentrate on the network or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kun Lu , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communications can reduce the resource consumption by transmitting task-related semantic information extracted from source messages. However, when the source messages are utilized for various tasks, e.g., wireless sensing data for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Hongyang Du , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Junshan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

The last seventy years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's theoretical concept to current high-efficient practical systems. Classical communication systems address the capability-deficiency issue mainly by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Kai Niu , Jincheng Dai , Shengshi Yao , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin , Ping Zhang

In recent years, the rapid development of machine learning has brought reforms and challenges to traditional communication systems. Semantic communication has appeared as an effective strategy to effectively extract relevant semantic…

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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

Semantic communication is an emerging paradigm that focuses on understanding and delivering semantics, or meaning of messages. Most existing semantic communication solutions define semantic meaning as the meaning of object labels recognized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jingming Liang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Mehdi Bennis

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

With the rapid growth of multimedia data volume, there is an increasing need for efficient video transmission in applications such as virtual reality and future video streaming services. Semantic communication is emerging as a vital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Qiyuan Du , Yiping Duan , Qianqian Yang , Xiaoming Tao , Mérouane Debbah

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

Semantic communication has witnessed a great progress with the development of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL). Although existing semantic communication technologies can effectively reduce errors in semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Yong Xiao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication is a new paradigm for information transmission that integrates the essential meaning (semantics) of the message into the communication process. However, like in classic wireless communications, the open nature of…

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A status updating system is considered in which a variable length code is used to transmit messages to a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to optimize the codewords lengths such that successfully-decoded messages are timely. That…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ahmed Arafa , Richard D. Wesel

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Existing wireless video transmission schemes directly conduct video coding in pixel level, while neglecting the inner semantics contained in videos. In this paper, we propose a wireless video semantic communication framework, abbreviated as…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Biqian Feng , Wenjun Zhang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider the problem of joint source-channel coding for semantic communication from a rateless perspective, the purpose of which is to settle the balance between reliability (distortion/perception) and effectiveness (rate) of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao