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Joint communication and sensing is expected to be one of the features introduced by the sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. This will enable a huge variety of new applications, hence, it is important to find suitable approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Miroslav Mitev , Amitha Mayya , Arsenia Chorti

The sixth-generation (6G) non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are crucial for real-time monitoring in critical applications like disaster relief. However, limited bandwidth, latency, rain attenuation, long propagation delays, and co-channel…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Loc X. Nguyen , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yan Kyaw Tun , Kitae Kim , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

The burgeoning generative artificial intelligence technology offers novel insights into the development of semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks. These frameworks hold the potential to address the challenges associated with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Hongyang Du , Yanli Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

As 6G emerges, cellular systems are envisioned to integrate sensing with communication capabilities, leading to multi-faceted communication and sensing (JCAS). This paper presents a comprehensive cross-layer overview of the Hexa-X-II…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a key pillar for enabling the upcoming sixth generation (6G) communication systems, requiring not only reliable communication functionalities but also highly accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Jiapeng Li , Xiaodan Shao , Feng Chen , Shaohua Wan , Chang Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Perceiving vehicles in a driver's blind spot is vital for safe driving. The detection of potentially dangerous vehicles in these blind spots can benefit from vehicular network semantic communication technology. However, efficient semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Hao Feng , Yi Yang , 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

Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surge of research activities in this area, the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

6G will likely be the first generation of mobile communication that will feature tight integration of localization and sensing with communication functionalities. Among several worldwide initiatives, the Hexa-X flagship project stands out…

This article studies effective communication, one of the three forms identified by Weaver and Shannon, as an enabler for the upcoming 6G use cases. The envisioned tactile, holographic, and multi-sensory communications require bandwidths in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ece Gelal Soyak , Ozgur Ercetin

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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently emerged as a candidate 6G technology, aiming to unify the two key operations of the future network in spectrum/energy/cost efficient way. ISAC involves communicating information to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Zhongxiang Wei , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Nanchi Su , Athina P. Petropulu

The year 2019 witnessed the rollout of the 5G standard, which promises to offer significant data rate improvement over 4G. While 5G is still in its infancy, there has been an increased shift in the research community for communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath , Tommaso Melodia

Semantic communications (SemCom), as one of the key technologies for 6G, is shifting networks from bit transmission to semantic information exchange. On this basis, introducing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with perception, memory,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Haixiao Gao , Mengying Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Yanhan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Nan Ma , Dusit Niyato , Ping Zhang

For cyber-physical systems in the 6G era, semantic communications connecting distributed devices for dynamic control and remote state estimation are required to guarantee application-level performance, not merely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu , Daniel Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Task-oriented semantic communication (SemCom) prioritizes task execution over accurate symbol reconstruction and is well-suited to emerging intelligent applications. Cooperative multi-task SemCom (CMT-SemCom) further improves task execution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Pallavi Dhingra , Edgar Beck , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy

This article comprehensively reviews recent developments and research on deep learning-based (DL-based) techniques for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. ISAC, which combines sensing and communication functionalities, is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Murat Temiz , Yongwei Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Chi Zhang , Chenfeng Meng , Orhan Kaplan , Christos Masouros

The roll-out of various emerging wireless services has triggered the need for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks to provide functions of target sensing, intelligent computing and information communication over the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qiao Qi , Xiaoming Chen , Ata Khalili , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The convergence of robotics and next-generation communication is a critical driver of technological advancement. As the world transitions from 5G to 6G, the foundational capabilities of wireless networks are evolving to support increasingly…

Multi-node communication, which refers to the interaction among multiple devices, has attracted lots of attention in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios. However, its huge amounts of data flows and inflexibility for task extension have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wenjun Zhang