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Digital and analog semantic communications (SemCom) face inherent limitations such as data security concerns in analog SemCom, as well as leveling-off and cliff-edge effects in digital SemCom. In order to overcome these challenges, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Zhu Han , Khaled B. Letaief

Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

Semantic communications are expected to become the core new paradigms of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Most existing works implicitly utilize channel information for codecs training, which leads to poor communications when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Lan Lin , Wenjun Xu , Fengyu Wang , Yimeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communications have emerged as a new paradigm for improving communication efficiency by transmitting the semantic information of a source message that is most relevant to a desired task at the receiver. Most existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yufei Bo , Yiheng Duan , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao

We study multi-user massive multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems and focus on downlink transmission, where the base station (BS) employs a large antenna array with low-cost 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The direct…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Ang Li , Christos Masouros , Fan Liu , A. L. Swindlehurst

We propose a novel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) weighting architecture that statistically minimizes the distortion caused by random timing mismatches among current sources. To decode the DAC input codewords into corresponding DAC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Ramin Babaee , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Martin Bouchard

We propose a novel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) weighting architecture that statistically minimizes the distortion caused by random current mismatches. Unlike binary, thermometer-coded, and segmented DACs, the current weights of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Ramin Babaee , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Martin Bouchard

The paper deals with the task of optimal design of Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs). A general ADC is modeled as a causal discrete-time dynamical system with outputs taking values in a finite set, and its performance is defined as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Mitra Osqui , Alexandre Megretski , Mardavij Roozbehani

Neural Speech Codecs face a fundamental trade-off at low bitrates: preserving acoustic fidelity often compromises semantic richness. To address this, we introduce SACodec, a novel codec built upon an asymmetric dual-quantizer that employs…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhongren Dong , Bin Wang , Jing Han , Haotian Guo , Xiaojun Mo , Yimin Cao , Zixing Zhang

Superconducting quantum computers (SQC) can solve some specific problems which are deeply believed to be intractable for classical computers. The control and measurement of qubits can't go on without the synchronous operation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Li-Hua Sun , Fu-Tian Liang , Jin Lin , Cheng Guo , Yu Xu , Sheng-Kai Liao , Cheng-Zhi Peng

In this paper, we investigate secure transmission in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system adopting low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Artificial noise (AN) is deliberately transmitted simultaneously with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Jun Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Communication systems use the concept of transmitting information using the electrical distribution network as a communication channel. To enable the transmission data signal modulated on a carrier signal is superimposed on the electrical…

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Semantic communication has witnessed a great progress with the development of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL). Although existing semantic communication technologies can effectively reduce errors in semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Yong Xiao , Honggang Zhang

One-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are a practical and promising solution for reducing cost and power consumption in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, the one-bit precoding problem is NP-hard and even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Ly V. Nguyen , Lu Liu , Nguyen Linh-Trung , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Systems that capture and process analog signals must first acquire them through an analog-to-digital converter. While subsequent digital processing can remove statistical correlations present in the acquired data, the dynamic range of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Or Ordentlich , Gizem Tabak , Pavan Kumar Hanumolu , Andrew C. Singer , Gregory W. Wornell

Semantic communication has been introduced into collaborative perception systems for autonomous driving, offering a promising approach to enhancing data transmission efficiency and robustness. Despite its potential, existing semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Jipeng Gan , Le Liang , Hua Zhang , Chongtao Guo , Shi Jin

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

Current-steering (CS) digital-to-analog converters (DACs) generate analog signals by combining weighted current sources. Ideally, the current sources are combined at each switching instant simultaneously. However, this is not true in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Daniel Beauchamp , Keith M. Chugg

Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) allow physical signals to be processed using digital hardware. Their conversion consists of two stages: Sampling, which maps a continuous-time signal into discrete-time, and quantization, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Nir Shlezinger , Ariel Amar , Ben Luijten , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper focuses on channel estimation for mmWave MIMO systems with 1-bit spatial sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The channel estimation performance with 1-bit spatial sigma-delta ADCs depends on the quantization noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri