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Optimizations premised on open-loop metrics such as Age of Information (AoI) indirectly enhance the system's decision-making utility. We therefore propose a novel closed-loop metric named Goal-oriented Tensor (GoT) to directly quantify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Sumei Sun , Jie Cao

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

Goal-oriented communication shifts the focus from merely delivering timely information to maximizing decision-making effectiveness by prioritizing the transmission of high-value information. In this context, we introduce the Goal-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kunpeng Liu , Shaohua Wu , Aimin Li , Qinyu Zhang

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

Future wireless networks must support real-time, data-driven cyber-physical systems in which communication is tightly coupled with sensing, inference, control, and decision-making. Traditional communication paradigms centered on accuracy,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiping Luo , Erfan Delfani , Mehrdad Salimnejad , Nikolaos Pappas

In forthcoming AI-assisted 6G networks, integrating semantic, pragmatic, and goal-oriented communication strategies becomes imperative. This integration will enable sensing, transmission, and processing of exclusively pertinent task data,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

We address the problem of real-time remote tracking of a partially observable Markov source in an energy harvesting system with an unreliable communication channel. We consider both sampling and transmission costs. Different from most prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Marian Codreanu

Internet of Things (IoT) applications combine sensing, wireless communication, intelligence, and actuation, enabling the interaction among heterogeneous devices that collect and process considerable amounts of data. However, the…

This paper studies semantics-aware remote estimation of Markov sources. We leverage two complementary information attributes: the urgency of lasting impact, which quantifies the significance of consecutive estimation error at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

The first 6G standardization efforts are about to start, shaping the new generation of mobile networks. The IMT-2030 extends the IMT-2020 by expanding its usage scenarios to Immersive, Massive, and Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Federico Tonini , Davide Borsatti , Wint Yi Poe , Riccardo Trivisonno , Walter Cerroni

Goal-oriented communication (GoC) is a form of semantic communication where the effectiveness of information transmission is measured by its impact on achieving the desired goal. In Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, GoC can enable sensors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Prasoon Raghuwanshi , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , I-Hong Hou , Vimal Bhatia , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, we introduce the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) as an enabler for semantics-empowered communication, a newly advocated communication paradigm centered around data's role and its usefulness to the communication's goal.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

Recent research efforts on Semantic Communication (SemCom) have mostly considered accuracy as a main problem for optimizing goal-oriented communication systems. However, these approaches introduce a paradox: the accuracy of Artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quang-Vinh Do , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Won-Joo Hwang

This paper develops a principled foundation for goal-oriented semantic communication for logical decision-making. Consider a setting where autonomous agents engage in collaborative perception. In such settings, the volume of sensory data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ahmet Faruk Saz , Faramarz Fekri

In 5G and beyond communication systems, the notion of latency gets great momentum in wireless connectivity as a metric for serving real-time communications requirements. However, in many applications, research has pointed out that latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Upon the arrival of emerging devices, including Extended Reality (XR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the traditional communication framework is approaching Shannon's physical capacity limit and fails to guarantee the massive amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Xiaonan Liu , Nikolaos Pappas , Arumugam Nallanathan

Large language models are increasingly being used to assess and forecast research ideas, yet we lack scalable ways to evaluate the quality of models' judgments about these scientific ideas. Towards this goal, we introduce PoT, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingyang Ye , Shan Chen , Jingxuan Tu , Chen Liu , Zidi Xiong , Samuel Schmidgall , Danielle S. Bitterman

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Internet of Things (IoT) devices will play an important role in emerging applications, since their sensing, actuation, processing, and wireless communication capabilities stimulate data collection, transmission and decision processes of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Chao Zhang , Hang Zou , Samson Lasaulce , Walid Saad , Marios Kountouris , Mehdi Bennis
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