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Goal-oriented semantic communication (SC) aims to revolutionize communication systems by transmitting only task-essential information. However, current approaches face challenges such as joint training at transceivers, leading to redundant…

In a two-way relay channel (TWRC), physical-layer network coding (PNC) doubles the system throughput by turning superimposed signals transmitted simultaneously by different end nodes into useful network-coded information (known as PNC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Shuai Yang , Haoyuan Pan , Tse-Tin Chan , Zhaorui Wang

Although the semantic communication with joint semantic-channel coding design has shown promising performance in transmitting data of different modalities over physical layer channels, the synchronization and packet-level forward error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Yun Tian , Jingkai Ying , Zhijin Qin , Ye Jin , Xiaoming Tao

We propose a new artificial-noise aided hybrid time-switching/power-splitting scheme for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems to securely transmit data and transfer energy to a legitimate receiving node. In our proposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Existing deep learning-enabled semantic communication systems often rely on shared background knowledge between the transmitter and receiver that includes empirical data and their associated semantic information. In practice, the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hongwei Zhang , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao , Xiaoyan Bi , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communications are expected to improve the transmission efficiency in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the distributed nature of networks and heterogeneity of devices challenge the secure utilization of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Weihao Zeng , Xinyu Xu , Qianyun Zhang , Jiting Shi , Zhenyu Guan , Shufeng Li , Zhijin Qin

We investigate the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted downlink secure transmission where only the statistical channel of eavesdropper is available. To handle the stochastic ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) maximization problem, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cen Liu , Chang Tian , Peixi Liu

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

We introduce a new semantic communication mechanism - SemanticRL, whose key idea is to preserve the semantic information instead of strictly securing the bit-level precision. Unlike previous methods that mainly concentrate on the network or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kun Lu , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

We apply the concept of artificial and controlled interference in a triangular relay network with an untrusted relay aiming at enhancing the wireless communication secrecy between the source and the destination node. In order to shield the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Ying Liu , Liang Li , George C. Alexandropoulos , Marius Pesavento

Semantic communication (SemCom) significantly reduces redundant data and improves transmission efficiency by extracting the latent features of information. However, most of the conventional deep learning-based SemCom systems focus on analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Ming Lyu , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Guangyin Feng , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

Enriching information of spectrum coverage, radiomap plays an important role in many wireless communication applications, such as resource allocation and network optimization. To enable real-time, distributed spectrum management,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yueling Zhou , Achintha Wijesinghe , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang , Zhipeng Cai

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

As a competitive technology for 6G, semantic communications can significantly improve transmission efficiency. However, many existing semantic communication systems require information feedback during the training coding process, resulting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Kaiwen Yu , Qi He , Gang Wu

This paper investigates the optimization of transmitting the encoder outputs, termed semantic features (SFs), in semantic communication (SC). We begin by modeling the entire communication process from the encoder output to the decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yongjeong Oh , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Yo-Seb Jeon

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

Semantic communication is an important participant in the next generation of wireless communications. Enabled by this novel paradigm, the conventional Internet-of-Things (IoT) is evolving toward the semantic IoT (SIoT) to achieve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hongyang Du , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mohsen Guizani , Dong In Kim

Recent advances in semantic communication (SC) have introduced neural network (NN)-based transceivers that convey semantic representation (SR) of signals such as images. However, these NNs are trained over diverse image distributions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

In this paper, a learning-aided content-based wireless image transmission scheme is proposed, where a multi-antenna-aided source wishes to securely deliver an image to a legitimate destination in the presence of randomly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mehdi Letafati , Hamid Behroozi , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Semantic communication conveys meaning rather than raw bits, but reliability at the semantic level remains an open challenge. We propose a semantic-level hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) framework for text communication, in which a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bin Han , Yulin Hu , Hans D. Schotten