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We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Didrik Bergström , Deniz Gündüz , Onur Günlü

This paper first presents a new approach to evaluating the descriptive complexity of finite-length binary sequences. Specifically, we investigate the sequence-wise recovery behavior induced by polar compression and successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

In this paper, we introduce an innovative hierarchical joint source-channel coding (HJSCC) framework for image transmission, utilizing a hierarchical variational autoencoder (VAE). Our approach leverages a combination of bottom-up and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu , Runmin Zhang

The acquisition of Downlink (DL) channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is known to be a challenging task in multiuser massive MIMO systems when uplink/downlink channel reciprocity does not hold (e.g., in frequency division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, delay-free, low complexity, joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for transmission of two correlated Gaussian memoryless sources over a Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (GMAC) is considered. The main contributions of the paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Paal Anders Floor , Anna N. Kim , Niklas Wernersson , Tor A. Ramstad , Mikael Skoglund , Ilangko Balasingham

Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xudong Long , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Yubin Zhao

This paper investigates robust semantic communications over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels. Current semantic communications over MIMO channels mainly focus on channel adaptive encoding and decoding, which lacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yiheng Duan , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

This work is concerned with robust distributed multi-view image transmission over a severe fading channel with imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the sources are slightly correlated. Since the signals are further distorted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Guan Gui , Qinyu Zhang

We study the collaborative image retrieval problem at the wireless edge, where multiple edge devices capture images of the same object from different angles and locations, which are then used jointly to retrieve similar images at the edge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Wing Fei Lo , Nitish Mital , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gündüz

This study focuses on the mobile video delivery from a video server to a multi-homed client with a network of heterogeneous wireless. Joint Source-Channel Coding is effectively used to transmit video over bandwidth-limited, noisy wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Xiaoyan Gao

The bottleneck of satellite-to-ground links poses a major challenge for the timely downlink of massive on-board imagery. This paper studies adaptive image transmission over LEO satellite-to-ground links using joint source-channel coding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiangtao Luo , Yongyi Ran , Guoliang Xu , Jihua Zhou

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

Conventionally, posterior matching is investigated in channel coding and block encoding contexts -- the source symbols are equiprobably distributed and are entirely known by the encoder before the transmission. In this paper, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Nian Guo , Victoria Kostina

Most existing semantic communication (SemCom) systems use deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) to encode task-specific semantics in a goal-oriented manner. However, their reliance on predefined tasks and datasets significantly limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jiangjing Hu , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Deniz Gündüz

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

The design of zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) schemes for the transmission of correlated information over fading Multiple Access Channels (MACs) is an interesting problem for many communication scenarios like Wireless Sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 O. Fresnedo , P. Suárez-Casal , L. Castedo

Consider the problem of source coding in networks with multiple receiving terminals, each having access to some kind of side information. In this case, standard coding techniques are either prohibitively complex to decode, or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Chen Avin , Michael Borokhovich , Asaf Cohen , Zvi Lotker

This paper presents a novel deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) scheme for image transmission over a half-duplex cooperative relay channel. Specifically, we apply DeepJSCC to two basic modes of cooperative communications, namely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gunduz

It is known that, as opposed to point-to-point channel, separate source and channel coding is not optimal in general for sending correlated sources over multiuser channels. In some works joint source-channel coding has been investigated for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sajjad Bahrami , Behrooz Razeghi , Mostafa Monemizadeh , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

This work is devoted to practical joint source channel coding. Although the proposed approach has more general scope, for the sake of clarity we focus on a specific application example, namely, the transmission of digital images over noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire