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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…

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

Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

We introduce a new measure on secrecy, which is established based on rate-distortion theory. It is named \emph{security rate}, which is the minimum (infimum) of the additional rate needed to reconstruct the source within target distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Qiyang Zhao , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , Daniel Benevides da Costa

Consider the problem of estimating a latent signal from a lossy compressed version of the data when the compressor is agnostic to the relation between the signal and the data. This situation arises in a host of modern applications when data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Alon Kipnis , Stefano Rini , Andrea J. Goldsmith

The problem of side-information scalable (SI-scalable) source coding is considered in this work, where the encoder constructs a progressive description, such that the receiver with high quality side information will be able to truncate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-01 Chao Tian , Suhas N. Diggavi

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

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

With the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, network communications based on the Shannon-Nyquist theorem gradually reveal their limitations due to the neglect of semantic information in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Linhan Xia , Jiaxin Cai , Ricky Yuen-Tan Hou , Seon-Phil Jeong

We consider multi-user semantic communications over broadcast channels. While most existing works consider that each receiver requires either the same or independent semantic information, this paper explores the scenario where the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yufei Bo , Shuo Shao , Meixia tao

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we derive information-theoretic performance limits for secure and reliable communications over the general two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel with side-information at the transmitter. The sender wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 K. G. Nagananda , Chandra R Murthy , Shalinee Kishore

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

Rate-distortion theory provides bounds for compressing data produced by an information source to a specified encoding rate that is strictly less than the source's entropy. This necessarily entails some loss, or distortion, between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Sina Salek , Daniela Cadamuro , Philipp Kammerlander , Karoline Wiesner

Shannon proved that if we can transmit bits reliably at rates larger than the rate distortion function $R(D)$, then we can transmit this source to within a distortion $D$. We answer the converse question ``If we can transmit a source to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mukul Agarwal , Anant Sahai , Sanjoy Mitter

Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haotian Wang , Dan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Chuan Huang , Hao Chen , Nan Ma

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

Recent progress in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has led to a new paradigm of semantic communications. Two salient features of DeepJSCC-based semantic communications are the exploitation of semantic-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the Shannon cipher system in a setting where the secret key is delivered to the legitimate receiver via a channel with limited capacity. For this setting, we characterize the achievable region in the space of three figures of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Neri Merhav