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In this paper we propose a new framework for distributed source coding of structured sources, such as sparse signals. Our framework capitalizes on recent advances in the theory of linear inverse problems and signal representations using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maxim Goukhshtein , Petros T. Boufounos , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Stark C. Draper

The optimization of joint source and channel coding for a sequence of numerous progressive packets is a challenging problem. Further, the problem becomes more complicated if the space-time coding is also involved with the optimization in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Meesue Shin , Laura Toni , Sang-Hyo Kim , Seok-Ho Chang

This paper proposes a control scheme for the quality-fair delivery of several encoded video streams to mobile users sharing a common wireless resource. Video quality fairness, as well as similar delivery delays are targeted among streams.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nesrine Changuel , Bessem Sayadi , Michel Kieffer

Information source sampling and update scheduling have been treated separately in the context of real-time status update for age of information optimization. In this paper, a unified sampling and scheduling ($\mathcal{S}^2$) approach is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yu Cheng

In this work, we consider the task of target localization using quantized data in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We propose an energy efficient localization scheme by modeling it as an iterative classification problem. We design coding…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Aditya Vempaty , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process, and makes a decision as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

Recent deep learning methods have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems. These methods, we call nonlinear transform source-channel coding (NTSCC), extract the semantic latent features of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

The network communication scenario where one or more receivers request all the information transmitted by different sources is considered. We introduce distributed polynomial-time network codes in the presence of malicious nodes. Our codes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Hongyi Yao , Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Sidharth Jaggi , Tracey Ho

This paper studies the remote estimation of multiple Markov sources over a lossy and rate-constrained channel. Unlike most existing studies that treat all source states equally, we exploit the \emph{semantics of information} and consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

Semantic communication (SemCom) systems aim to learn the mapping from low-dimensional semantics to high-dimensional ground-truth. While this is more akin to a "domain translation" problem, existing frameworks typically emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Distributed surveillance systems have become popular in recent years due to security concerns. However, transmitting high dimensional data in bandwidth-limited distributed systems becomes a major challenge. In this paper, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Alireza Rahimpour , Ali Taalimi , Hairong Qi

Index coding is often studied with the assumption that a single source has all the messages requested by the receivers. We refer to this as \emph{centralized} index coding. In contrast, this paper focuses on \emph{distributed} index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Parastoo Sadeghi

We study a class of binary detection problems involving a single fusion center and a large or countably infinite number of sensors. Each sensor acts under a decentralized information structure, accessing only a local noisy observation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Sinan Gezici , Serdar Yüksel

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

We focus on a particular form of network coding, reverse carpooling, in a wireless network where the potentially coded transmitted messages are to be decoded immediately upon reception. The network is fixed and known, and the system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Ali ParandehGheibi , Asuman Ozdaglar , Michelle Effros , Muriel Medard

In cyber-physical systems where sensors measure the temporal evolution of a given phenomenon of interest and radio communication takes place over short distances, the energy spent for source acquisition and compression may be comparable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Paolo Castiglione , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip , Thomas Zemen

We present an AI-based framework for semantic transmission of multimedia data over band-limited, time-varying channels. The method targets scenarios where large content is split into multiple packets, with an unknown number potentially…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Nargis Fayaz , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

In this paper, we investigate communication strategies for the multiple access channel with feedback and correlated sources (MACFCS). The MACFCS models a wireless sensor network scenario in which sensors distributed throughout an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Lawrence Ong , Mehul Motani

Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Yifeng Lyu , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

We study a multi-task private semantic communication problem, in which an encoder has access to an information source arbitrarily correlated with some latent private data. A user has $L$ tasks with priorities. The encoder designs a message…

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