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Using multimodal sensory data can enhance communications systems by reducing the overhead and latency in beam training. However, processing such data incurs high computational complexity, and continuous sensing results in significant power…

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Supporting high mobility in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems enables a wide range of important applications such as vehicular communications and wireless virtual/augmented reality. Realizing this in practice, though, requires overcoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Sam Alex , Paul Varkey , Ying Li , Qi Qu , Djordje Tujkovic

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

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In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

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Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ke Ma , Zhaocheng Wang , Wenqiang Tian , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced significant opportunities for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of image transmission within semantic communication systems. Despite these advancements,…

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This paper explores opportunities and challenges of task (goal)-oriented and semantic communications for next-generation (NextG) communication networks through the integration of multi-task learning. This approach employs deep neural…

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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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems rely on narrow beams for achieving sufficient receive signal power. Adjusting these beams is typically associated with large training overhead, which becomes particularly critical for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 João Morais , Arash Behboodi , Hamed Pezeshki , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Semantic communications (SemCom) is a promising paradigm that prioritizes the transmission of task-relevant information, thereby enabling superior communication efficiency over traditional bit-centric systems. However, most existing SemCom…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinbao Li , Jiancheng An , Hao Liu , Lu Gan , Victor C. M. Leung , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising approach for improving efficient transmission in the next generation of wireless networks. Inspired by the success of semantic communication in different areas, we aim to provide a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

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

Beamforming techniques have been widely used in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to mitigate the path loss of mmWave radio links as the narrow straight beams by directionally concentrating the signal energy. However, traditional mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Kan Zheng , Haojun Yang , Ziqiang Ying , Pengshuo Wang , Lajos Hanzo

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication technology, which employs large-scale antenna arrays, enables inherent sensing capabilities. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) can utilize channel multipath angle estimates to realize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hang Que , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

This paper presents the first large-scale real-world evaluation for using LiDAR data to guide the mmWave beam prediction task. A machine learning (ML) model that leverages the LiDAR sensory data to predict the current and future beams was…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Shuaifeng Jiang , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications requirebeamforming and consequent precise beam alignmentbetween the gNodeB (gNB) and the user equipment (UE) toovercome high propagation losses. This beam alignment needs tobe constantly updated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Enrico Tosi , Panwei Hu , Aleksandar Ichkov , Marina Petrova , Ljiljana Simić

Millimeter Waves (mmW) and sub-THz frequencies are the candidate bands for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) of communication systems. The use of collimated beams at mmW/sub-THz to compensate for the increased path and penetration loss…

Recently, semantic communications are envisioned as a key enabler of future 6G networks. Back to Shannon's information theory, the goal of communication has long been to guarantee the correct reception of transmitted messages irrespective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Meeting the high data rate demands of modern applications necessitates the utilization of high-frequency spectrum bands, including millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz bands. However, these frequencies require precise alignment of narrow…

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