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Semantic communication (SemCom) has the potential to significantly reduce communication delay in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications within vehicular networks (VNs). However, the deployment of vehicular SemCom networks…

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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

With the explosive growth of connected devices and emerging applications, current wireless networks are encountering unprecedented demands for massive user access, where the inter-user interference has become a critical challenge to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Yunhao Wang , Shuai Ma , Pengfei He , Dahua Gao , Guangming Shi , Xiang Cheng

This paper proposes a novel adaptive dual-path framework for covert semantic communication (SemCom), which integrates covert information transmission with task-oriented semantic coding. Unlike conventional covert communication methods that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xi Yu , Weicai Li , Lin Yin , Tiejun Lv

Along with the springing up of the semantics-empowered communication (SemCom) research, it is now witnessing an unprecedentedly growing interest towards a wide range of aspects (e.g., theories, applications, metrics and implementations) in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhilin Lu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Xianfu Chen , Ekram Hossain , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

As one of the most promising technologies for intellicise (intelligent and consice) wireless networks, Semantic Communication (SemCom) significantly improves communication efficiency by extracting, transmitting, and recovering semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Yinqiu Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

While semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information, it also raises critical privacy concerns. Many existing secure SemCom approaches rely on restrictive or impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Shunpu Tang , Zhiguo Shi , Shui Yu

Vehicular edge intelligence (VEI) is vital for future intelligent transportation systems. However, traditional centralized learning in dynamic vehicular networks faces significant communication overhead and privacy risks. Split federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Lu Yu , Zheng Chang , Ying-Chang Liang

Task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC) emerges as an innovative approach in the 6G landscape, characterized by the transmission of only vital information that is directly pertinent to a specific task. While ToSC offers an efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Shuaishuai Guo , Anbang Zhang , Yanhu Wang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored for the efficient transmission of images, text, and speech in recent years. In contrast to traditional wireless communication methods that focus on the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Tianxiao Han , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Shibo He , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Loc X. Nguyen , Avi Deb Raha , Pyae Sone Aung , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Deep learning enabled semantic communications have shown great potential to significantly improve transmission efficiency and alleviate spectrum scarcity, by effectively exchanging the semantics behind the data. Recently, the emergence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Zhu Han

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques enable users to extract, transmit, and reproduce information semantics via ML-based semantic communication (SemCom). This significantly increases network spectral efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Guhan Zheng , Qiang Ni , Aryan Kaushik , Lixia Yang , Yushi Wang , Charilaos Zarakovitis

With deployment of 6G technology, it is envisioned that competitive edge of wireless networks will be sustained and next decade's communication requirements will be stratified. Also 6G will aim to aid development of a human society which is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sridhar Iyer , Rajashri Khanai , Dattaprasad Torse , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Khaled Rabie , Krishna Pai , Wali Ullah Khan , Zubair Fadlullah

Semantic communication, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques, emerges as a new paradigm that meets the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. However, current semantic communication systems, which employ neural coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on high transmission rate to a new architecture that is based on the intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Wanting Yang , Hongyang Du , Ziqin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao

This paper highlights vulnerabilities of deep learning-driven semantic communications to backdoor (Trojan) attacks. Semantic communications aims to convey a desired meaning while transferring information from a transmitter to its receiver.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication, enabled by deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC), is widely expected to inherit the vulnerability of deep learning to adversarial perturbations. This paper challenges this prevailing belief and reveals a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Hongyu An , Zhijin Qin , Kaibin Huang