English
Related papers

Related papers: Causal Semantic Communication for Digital Twins: A…

200 papers

The synchronization of digital twins (DT) serves as the cornerstone for effective operation of the DT framework. However, the limitations of channel capacity can greatly affect the data transmission efficiency of wireless communication.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Bin Li , Haichen Cai , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei

With the advent of the 6G era, the concept of semantic communication has attracted increasing attention. Compared with conventional communication systems, semantic communication systems are not only affected by physical noise existing in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Danlan Huang , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Metaverse over wireless networks is an emerging use case of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, posing unprecedented challenges in terms of its multi-modal data transmissions with stringent latency and reliability requirements.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

Recently, semantic communication has been widely applied in wireless image transmission systems as it can prioritize the preservation of meaningful semantic information in images over the accuracy of transmitted symbols, leading to improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

Underwater communication is essential for environmental monitoring, marine biology research, and underwater exploration. Traditional underwater communication faces limitations like low bandwidth, high latency, and susceptibility to noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weilong Chen , Wenxuan Xu , Haoran Chen , Xinran Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yanru Zhang , Zhu Han

With the fast evolving of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), the concept of digital twin (DT) has recently been proposed and finds broad applications in industrial Internet, IoT, smart city, etc. The DT builds a mirror…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Tom H. Luan , Ruhan Liu , Longxiang Gao , Rui Li , Haibo Zhou

Semantic communications leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to extract semantic information for efficient data delivery, thereby significantly reducing communication cost. With the evolution towards artificial general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaojun Yuan , Haoming Ma , Yinuo Huang , Zhoufan Hua , Yong Zuo , Zhi Ding

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Intelligent machines (IMs), including industrial machines, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned vehicles, etc., could perform effective cooperation in complex environment when they form IM network. The efficient environment sensing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhiqing Wei , Yucong Du , Qixun Zhang , Wangjun Jiang , Yanpeng Cui , Zeyang Meng , Huici Wu , Zhiyong Feng

Point cloud, as a 3D representation, is widely used in autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). However, traditional communication systems think that the point cloud's semantic information is irrelevant to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

Semantic communications (SC) is an emerging communication paradigm in which wireless devices can send only relevant information from a source of data while relying on computing resources to regenerate missing data points. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

Semantic communications have shown promising advancements by optimizing source and channel coding jointly. However, the dynamics of these systems remain understudied, limiting research and performance gains. Inspired by the robustness of…

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

The end-to-end image communication system has been widely studied in the academic community. The escalating demands on image communication systems in terms of data volume, environmental complexity, and task precision require enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communications learned on background knowledge bases (KBs) have been identified as a promising technology for communications between intelligent agents. Existing works assume that transceivers of semantic communications share the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo

Semantic communications will play a critical role in enabling goal-oriented services over next-generation wireless systems. However, most prior art in this domain is restricted to specific applications (e.g., text or image), and it does not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah

In this paper, the problem of semantic-based efficient image transmission is studied over the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In the considered model, a vehicle shares massive amount of visual data perceived by its visual sensors to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Pan , Haonan Tong , Jie Lv , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Changchuan Yin , Jianfeng Li

Achieving artificially intelligent-native wireless networks is necessary for the operation of future 6G applications such as the metaverse. Nonetheless, current communication schemes are, at heart, a mere reconstruction process that lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

Cognitive Twins (CT) are proposed as Digital Twins (DT) with augmented semantic capabilities for identifying the dynamics of virtual model evolution, promoting the understanding of interrelationships between virtual models and enhancing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Jinzhi Lu , Xiaochen Zheng , Ali Gharaei , Kostas Kalaboukas , Dimitris Kiritsis

Semantic communications (SCs) play a central role in shaping the future of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, which leverage rapid advances in deep learning (DL). In this regard, end-to-end optimized DL-based joint source-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mahmoud M. Salim , Mohamed S. Abdalzaher , Ali H. Muqaibel , Hussein A. Elsayed , Inkyu Lee

Foundation model-based semantic transmission has recently shown great potential in wireless image communication. However, existing methods exhibit two major limitations: (i) they overlook the varying importance of semantic components for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang