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Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

In the context of emerging 6G services, the realization of everything-to-everything interactions involving a myriad of physical and digital entities presents a crucial challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by resource scarcity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Masoud Shokrnezhad , Hamidreza Mazandarani , Tarik Taleb , Jaeseung Song , Richard Li

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made a significant breakthrough in generative modeling. The combination of the generative model and semantic communication (SemCom) enables high-fidelity semantic information exchange at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of wireless technology, the so-called 5G and beyond, promises to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Guangming Shi , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Xuemei Xie

Increasing demands for massive data transmission pose significant challenges to communication systems. Compared with traditional communication systems that focus on the accurate reconstruction of bit sequences, SemComs, which aim to deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Fengyu Wang , Yuan Zheng , Wenjun Xu , Junxiao Liang , Ping Zhang , Zhu Han

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

The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system effectiveness and sustainability. Semantic communication goes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication has shown great potential in boosting the effectiveness and reliability of communications. However, its systems to date are mostly enabled by deep learning, which requires demanding computing resources. This article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhijin Qin , Jingkai Ying , Dingxi Yang , Hengjiang Wang , Xiaoming Tao

As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Francesco Pezone

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the meaning behind a transmitted message by transmitting only semantically-relevant information. This semantic-centric design helps to minimize power usage, bandwidth consumption, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Tilahun M. Getu , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis

Semantic communication and edge-cloud collaborative intelligence are increasingly recognized as foundational enablers for next-generation intelligent services operating under stringent bandwidth, latency, and resource constraints. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Murdadha Nasif , Ahmed Refaey Hussein

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks are expected to support autonomous, immersive, and mission-critical services that require not only extreme data rates and ultra-low latency but also adaptive reasoning, cross-domain coordination, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ian F. Akyildiz , Tuğçe Bilen

Recently, learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising approach in the upcoming 6G network and researchers have made remarkable efforts in this field. However, existing works have yet to fully explore the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz , Zhaoyang Zhang

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 communication is regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, which transmits only semantic information to significantly improve communication efficiency. This article introduces a framework for generalized semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhijin Qin , Feifei Gao , Bo Lin , Xiaoming Tao , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising communication paradigm and there have been extensive research focusing on its applications in the increasingly prevalent multi-user scenarios. However, the knowledge discrepancy among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Shuling Li , Yaping Sun , Jinbei Zhang , Kechao Cai , Hao Chen , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong Xu