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Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

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Semantic communication enables intelligent agents to extract meaning (or semantics) of information via interaction, to carry out collaborative tasks. In this paper, we study semantic communication from a topological space perspective, in…

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Each generation of cellular networks is characterized by its distinct capabilities and innovations, which reflect the significant milestones reached with each new release. 5G has made substantial progress through the deployment of advanced…

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Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

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Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

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…

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Semantic communication is widely touted as a key technology for propelling the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. However, providing effective semantic representation is quite challenging in practice. To address this issue, this…

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With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

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Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The…

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As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

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Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

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.…

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As communication systems transition from symbol transmission to conveying meaningful information, sixth-generation (6G) networks emphasize semantic communication. This approach prioritizes high-level semantic information, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Zhe Xiang , Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Yuandi Li , Zhiguo Wan

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

Semantic communication serves as a novel paradigm and attracts the broad interest of researchers. One critical aspect of it is the multi-user semantic communication theory, which can further promote its application to the practical network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Weizhi Li , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Kaijun Liu

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…

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