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In 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this, the main theme of wireless system design up until 5G was the data rate…

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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…

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Semantic communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm in next-generation communication systems, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to extract and transmit semantic representations for efficient information…

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Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

Although semantic communications have exhibited satisfactory performance for a large number of tasks, the impact of semantic noise and the robustness of the systems have not been well investigated. Semantic noise refers to the misleading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Qiyu Hu , Guangyi Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Backscatter communication (BackCom), one of the core technologies to realize zero-power communication, is expected to be a pivotal paradigm for the next generation of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the "strong" direct link (DL)…

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This paper considers machine learning for physical layer security design for communication in a challenging wireless environment. The radio environment is assumed to be programmable with the aid of a meta material-based intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Yizhuo Song , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Faisal Tariq , Kai-Kit Wong , Apriana Toding

Semantic communication (SemCom) has been deemed as a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. Nonetheless, most of the existing works focus more on point-to-point communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Zhilin Lu , Rongpeng Li , Ming Lei , Chan Wang , 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

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

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

Most existing semantic communication (SemCom) systems use deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) to encode task-specific semantics in a goal-oriented manner. However, their reliance on predefined tasks and datasets significantly limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jiangjing Hu , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Deniz Gündüz

Deep learning enabled semantic communications have shown great potential to significantly improve transmission efficiency and alleviate spectrum scarcity, by effectively exchanging the semantics behind the data. Recently, the emergence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Zhu Han

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on recognizing and delivering the desired meaning of messages to the destination users. Most existing works in this area focus on delivering explicit semantics, labels or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Zhimin Lu , Yong Xiao , Zijian Sun , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Xianfu Chen , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has seen huge improvements and recently also expanded to full band audio (48 kHz). However, many approaches have a rather high computational complexity and require big temporal buffers for real time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

Recently, semantic communication has been brought to the forefront because of its great success in deep learning (DL), especially Transformer. Even if semantic communication has been successfully applied in the sentence transmission to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Learning-task oriented semantic communication is pivotal in optimizing transmission efficiency by extracting and conveying essential semantics tailored to specific tasks, such as image reconstruction and classification. Nevertheless, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lingyi Wang , Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Zhijin Qin , Qihui Wu

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques enable users to extract, transmit, and reproduce information semantics via ML-based semantic communication (SemCom). This significantly increases network spectral efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Guhan Zheng , Qiang Ni , Aryan Kaushik , Lixia Yang , Yushi Wang , Charilaos Zarakovitis

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for efficient information transmission by emphasizing the exchange of task-relevant meaning rather than raw data. While diffusion-based SemCom models have demonstrated…

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