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Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

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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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (Deep-JSCC) has emerged as a promising semantic communication approach for wireless image transmission by jointly optimizing source and channel coding using deep learning techniques. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Yumin Park , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

While semantic communications have shown the potential in the case of single-modal single-users, its applications to the multi-user scenario remain limited. In this paper, we investigate deep learning (DL) based multi-user semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

Semantic communication with joint semantic-channel coding robustly transmits diverse data modalities but faces challenges in mitigating semantic information loss due to packet drops in packet-based systems. Under current protocols, packets…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lei Teng , Senran Fan , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Xiaodong Xu , Rui Meng , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has gained significant attention with the advances in machine learning. Most semantic communication works focus on either task execution or data reconstruction, with some recent works combining the two. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Avinash Kankari , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

In this paper, the problem of joint transmission and computation resource allocation for a multi-user probabilistic semantic communication (PSC) network is investigated. In the considered model, users employ semantic information extraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that exploits deep learning models to enable end-to-end communications processes, and recent studies have shown that it can achieve better noise resiliency compared with traditional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Wenyu Zhang , Kaiyuan Bai , Sherali Zeadally , Haijun Zhang , Hua Shao , Hui Ma , Victor C. M. Leung

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

In this paper, a semantic communication framework is proposed for textual data transmission. In the studied model, a base station (BS) extracts the semantic information from textual data, and transmits it to each user. The semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

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,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

Semantic communications offer promising prospects for enhancing data transmission efficiency. However, existing schemes have predominantly concentrated on point-to-point transmissions. In this paper, we aim to investigate the validity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Anming Dong , Hui Zhao

This paper investigates the secure resource allocation for a downlink integrated sensing and communication system with multiple legal users and potential eavesdroppers. In the considered model, the base station (BS) simultaneously transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yinchao Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Semantic communications have shown great potential to boost the end-to-end transmission performance. To further improve the system efficiency, in this paper, we propose a class of novel semantic coded transmission (SCT) schemes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengshi Yao , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Satellite communications face severe bottlenecks in supporting high-fidelity synchronized audiovisual services, as conventional schemes struggle with cross-modal coherence under fluctuating channel conditions, limited bandwidth, and long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Semantic communication (SemCom) is emerging as a key technology for future sixth-generation (6G) systems. Unlike traditional bit-level communication (BitCom), SemCom directly optimizes performance at the semantic level, leading to superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong , Kaibin Huang

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li