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5G has expanded the traditional focus of wireless systems to embrace two new connectivity types: ultra-reliable low latency and massive communication. The technology context at the dawn of 6G is different from the past one for 5G, primarily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Federico Chiariotti , Kaibin Huang , Anders E. Kalør , Szymon Kobus , Petar Popovski

As communication systems transition from symbol transmission to conveying meaningful information, sixth-generation (6G) networks emphasize semantic communication. This approach prioritizes high-level semantic information, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Zhe Xiang , Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Yuandi Li , Zhiguo Wan

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

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

Semantic communications (SCs) aim to transmit only the essential information required to perform given tasks, thereby improving communication efficiency. Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Eunhye Hong , Taewoo Park , Yongjune Kim

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

In this paper, we address task-oriented (or goal-oriented) communications where an encoder at the transmitter learns compressed latent representations of data, which are then transmitted over a wireless channel. At the receiver, a decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communication in the 6G era has been deemed a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. However, its applications for the multi-user scenario, especially the broadcasting case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Han Hu , Xingwu Zhu , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

The forthcoming 6G systems are expected to address a wide range of non-stationary tasks. This poses challenges to traditional medium access control (MAC) protocols that are static and predefined. In response, data-driven MAC protocols have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jihong Park , Seung-Woo Ko , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

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

The task-oriented semantic communication systems have achieved significant performance gain, however, the paradigm that employs a model for a specific task might be limited, since the system has to be updated once the task is changed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

The exponential growth of wireless users and bandwidth constraints necessitates innovative communication paradigms for next-generation networks. Semantic Communication (SemCom) emerges as a promising solution by transmitting extracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Yingzhuo Sun , Jingwen Fu , Alper Kose , Leila Musavian , Ming Xiao , Berna Ozbek

Semantic communication has emerged as new paradigm shifts in 6G from the conventional syntax-oriented communications. Recently, the wireless broadcast technology has been introduced to support semantic communication system toward higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Fangwei Ye , Suzhi Bi

Semantic communications have gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the transmission bottleneck, especially with the continuous development of 6G techniques. Distinct from the well investigated physical channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Khaled B. Letaief

This work designs a novel semantic communication (SemCom) framework for the next-generation wireless network to tackle the challenges of unnecessary transmission of vast amounts that cause high bandwidth consumption, more latency, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Avi Deb Raha , Md. Shirajum Munir , Apurba Adhikary , Yu Qiao , Choong Seon Hong

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning and natural language processing technologies, semantic communication has become a topic of great interest in the field of communication. Although existing deep learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingyan Wang , Rongpeng Li , Jianhang Zhu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

With the advent of the 6G era, the concept of semantic communication has attracted increasing attention. Compared with conventional communication systems, semantic communication systems are not only affected by physical noise existing in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Danlan Huang , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

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

The sixth-generation mobile communication system proposes the vision of smart interconnection of everything, which requires accomplishing communication tasks while ensuring the performance of intelligent tasks. A joint source-channel coding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Rui Tang , Chuanhong Liu