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Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains owing to their strong generative and denoising capabilities. Meanwhile, semantic communication based on neural joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has emerged as…

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The concept of semantic communication provides a novel approach for applications in scenarios with limited communication resources. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end (E2E) semantic molecular communication system, aiming to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Yukun Cheng , Wei Chen , Bo Ai

In recent years, numerous data-intensive broadcasting applications have emerged at the wireless edge, calling for a flexible tradeoff between distortion, transmission rate, and processing complexity. While deep learning-based joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zijun Qin , Jingxuan Huang , Zesong Fei , Haichuan Ding , Yulin Shao , Xianhao Chen

The increased throughput brought by MIMO technology relies on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) acquired in the base station (BS). To make the CSI feedback overhead affordable for the evolution of MIMO technology (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Wei Chen

The joint source-channel coding (JSCC) framework leverages deep learning to learn from data the best codes for source and channel coding. When the output signal, rather than being binary, is directly mapped onto the IQ domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Junli Fang , João F. C. Mota , Baoshan Lu , Weicheng Zhang , Xuemin Hong

We propose a novel hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for robust image transmission over multi-hop networks. In the considered scenario, a mobile user wants to deliver an image to its destination over a mobile cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is emerging as a promising technology for effective image transmission. However, most existing approaches focus on transmitting clear images, overlooking real-world challenges such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Lei Yu , Guanding Yu

Semantic communication (SemCom) has been recently deemed a promising next-generation wireless technique to enable efficient spectrum savings and information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical network paradigm where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu , Dusit Niyato , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic Edge Computing (SEC) and Semantic Communications (SemComs) have been proposed as viable approaches to achieve real-time edge-enabled intelligence in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. On one hand, SemCom leverages the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Venkat R. Dasari , Francesco Restuccia

We propose a hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme, in which the conventional digital communication scheme is complemented with a generative refinement component to improve the perceptual quality of the reconstruction. The input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Xueyan Niu , Xu Wang , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Weichao Chen , Guohua Zhou

Semantic communication (SemCom), as a typical paradigm of deep integration between artificial intelligence (AI) and communication technology, significantly improves communication efficiency and resource utilization efficiency. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Zhidi Zhang , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Xiaodong Xu

To address the challenges of robust data transmission over complex time-varying channels, this paper introduces channel learning and enhanced adaptive reconstruction (CLEAR) strategy for semantic communications. CLEAR integrates deep joint…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Hongzhi Pan , Shengliang Wu , Lingyun Wang , Yujun Zhu , Weiwei Jiang , Xin He

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for 6G wireless systems by transmitting task-relevant information rather than raw bits, yet existing approaches remain vulnerable to dual sources of uncertainty: semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Long Tan Le , Senura Hansaja Wanasekara , Zerun Niu , Nguyen H. Tran , Phuong Vo , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong , H. Vincent Poor

As one of the key techniques to realize semantic communications, end-to-end optimized neural joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has made great progress over the past few years. A general trend in many recent works pushing the model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Ke Yang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Deep learning-based semantic communication has largely relied on analog or semi-digital transmission, which limits compatibility with modern digital communication infrastructures. Recent studies have employed vector quantization (VQ) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zian Meng , Qiang Li , Wenqian Tang , Mingdie Yan , Xiaohu Ge

This work is concerned with robust distributed multi-view image transmission over a severe fading channel with imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the sources are slightly correlated. Since the signals are further distorted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Guan Gui , Qinyu Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to transmit only task-relevant information, thereby improving communication efficiency but also exposing semantic information to potential eavesdropping. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are a promising solution for autonomous exploration tasks in hazardous or remote environments, such as planetary surveys. In such settings, communication among agents is essential to ensure collaborative task…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Ban-Sok Shin , Dmitriy Shutin , Armin Dekorsy

Semantic encoders and decoders for digital semantic communication (SC) often struggle to adapt to variations in unpredictable channel environments and diverse system designs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yongjeong Oh , Joohyuk Park , Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and extended reality, efficient transmission of point clouds (PCs) has become increasingly important. In this context, we propose a novel channel-adaptive cross-modal generative semantic…

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