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Analog computing is attractive compared to digital computing due to its potential for achieving higher computational density and higher energy efficiency. However, unlike digital circuits, conventional analog computing circuits cannot be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pratik Kumar , Ankita Nandi , Shantanu Chakrabartty , Chetan Singh Thakur

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Massive MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) is a key enabler for 5G and future wireless systems, boosting channel capacity, energy efficiency, and spectral efficiency. However, high power consumption and hardware costs of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jie Zhang , Huifu Xu

Semantic communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm in next-generation communication systems, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to extract and transmit semantic representations for efficient information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhiyuan Xi , Kun Zhu , Yuanyuan Xu

In this contribution, we investigate a coarsely quantized Multi-User (MU)-Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) downlink communication system, where we assume 1-Bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs) at the Base Station (BS) antennas. First,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Oliver De Candido , Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Josef A. Nossek

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

Semantic communications, which focus on transmitting the semantic meaning of data, have been proposed as a novel paradigm for achieving efficient and relevant communication. Meanwhile, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enhances spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

Digital mapping of semantic features is essential for achieving interoperability between semantic communication and practical digital infrastructure. However, current research efforts predominantly concentrate on analog semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jianqiao Chen , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Tingting Zhu , Huishi Song , Chen Dong , Wenkai Liu , Rui Meng , Ping Zhang

In this paper, we aim to design highly energy efficient end-to-end communication for millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output systems. This is done by jointly optimizing the digital-to-analog converter (DAC)/analog-to-digital…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Aryan Kaushik , Evangelos Vlachos , Christos Tsinos , John Thompson , Symeon Chatzinotas

Discretization of semantic features enables interoperability between semantic and digital communication systems, showing significant potential for practical applications. The fundamental difficulty in digitizing semantic features stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianqiao Chen , Tingting Zhu , Huishi Song , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

Data acquisition is an important process in the functioning of any control system. Usually, the acquired signal is analogic, representing a continuous physical measure, and it should be processed in a digital system based on an analog to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Nicolae Paraschiv , Emil Pricop , Jaouhar Fattahi , Florin Zamfir

In this paper, we focus on the semantic image synthesis task that aims at transferring semantic label maps to photo-realistic images. Existing methods lack effective semantic constraints to preserve the semantic information and ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Hao Tang , Song Bai , Nicu Sebe

Recently, multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems with low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) has received considerable attention, owing to the capability of dramatically reducing the hardware cost. Besides,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-16 Lei Chu , Fei Wen , Robert Caiming Qiu

We present a sub-Nyquist analog-to-digital converter of wideband inputs. Our circuit realizes the recently proposed modulated wideband converter, which is a flexible platform for sampling signals according to their actual bandwidth…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-12-15 Moshe Mishali , Yonina C. Eldar , Oleg Dounaevsky , Eli Shoshan

We aim at investigating the impact of low resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at the transmitter and low resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) at the receiver on the required bandwidth and the required signalto- noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Hela Jedda , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

Chaotic synchronization performs poorly in noisy environments, with the main drawback being that the coherent receiver cannot be implemented in realistic communication channels. In this paper, we focus our study on a promising communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Georges Kaddoum , Francois Gagnon , Denis Couillard

A promising approach to deal with the high hardware cost and energy consumption of massive MIMO transmitters is to use low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at each antenna element. This leads to a transmission scheme where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zheyu Wu , Junjie Ma , Ya-Feng Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Audio denoising is critical in signal processing, enhancing intelligibility and fidelity for applications like restoring musical recordings. This paper presents a proof-of-concept for adapting a state-of-the-art neural audio codec, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel Jimon , Mircea Vaida , Adriana Stan

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