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The design of zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) schemes for the transmission of correlated information over fading Multiple Access Channels (MACs) is an interesting problem for many communication scenarios like Wireless Sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 O. Fresnedo , P. Suárez-Casal , L. Castedo

Inter-user interference remains a critical bottleneck in wireless communication systems, particularly in the emerging paradigm of semantic communication (SemCom). Compared to traditional systems, inter-user interference in SemCom severely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Kaibin Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Massive multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are foundational for downlink multi-user (MU) communication in future wireless networks, for their ability to enhance spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Erdeng Zhang , Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Haoge Jia , Zhe Ji , Ailing Xiao

A non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided joint communication, sensing, and multi-tier computing (JCSMC) framework is proposed. In this framework, a multi-functional base station (BS) carries out target sensing, while providing edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

The advent of 6G networks demands unprecedented levels of intelligence, adaptability, and efficiency to address challenges such as ultra-high-speed data transmission, ultra-low latency, and massive connectivity in dynamic environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chen Zhu , Kang Liang , Jianrong Bao , Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Semantic communication is an emerging research area that has gained a wide range of attention recently. Despite this growing interest, there remains a notable absence of a comprehensive and widely-accepted framework for characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yulin Shao , Qi Cao , Deniz Gunduz

Modern Earth Observation (EO) systems increasingly rely on high-resolution imagery to support critical applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and land-use analysis. Although these applications benefit from…

In this paper, we propose a novel blind multi-input multi-output (MIMO) semantic communication (SC) framework named Blind-MIMOSC that consists of a deep joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) transmitter and a diffusion-based blind receiver.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Hao Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Yinuo Huang , Qinghua Guo

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for eliminating noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Satellite-terrestrial communications are severely constrained by high path loss, limited spectrum resources, and time-varying channel conditions, rendering conventional bit-level transmission schemes inefficient and fragile, particularly in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinghong Huang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Jianchi Zhu , Zechuan Fang , Jingxuan Zhang , Ruichen Zhang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

This paper proposes robust nonlinear transform coding (Robust-NTC), a generalizable digital joint source-channel coding (JSCC) framework that couples variational latent modeling with channel-adaptive transmission. Unlike learning-based JSCC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Jihun Park , Junyong Shin , Jinsung Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

The surge in connected devices in 6G with typical complex tasks requiring multi-user cooperation, such as smart agriculture and smart cities, poses significant challenges to unsustainable traditional communication. Fortunately, the booming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communications focus on prioritizing the understanding of the meaning behind transmitted data and ensuring the successful completion of tasks that motivate the exchange of information. However, when devices rely on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Simone Fiorellino , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Deep learning (DL) has shown great potential in revolutionizing the traditional communications system. Many applications in communications have adopted DL techniques due to their powerful representation ability. However, the learning-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Chenguang Liu , Yuxin Zhou , Yunfei Chen , Shuang-Hua Yang

We consider the image transmission problem over a noisy wireless channel via deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) along with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) at the receiver. Specifically, we are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Selim F. Yilmaz , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Wei Han , Lei Deng , Deniz Gunduz

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) have shown promise for end-to-end semantic image transmission. However, most existing schemes primarily focus on optimizing pixel-wise metrics, which often fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

Molecular communication (MC) is emerging paradigm that employs molecules as information carriers, inspired by biological signaling processes. Existing modulation schemes such as on-off keying (OOK), although simple to implement, suffer from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Muskan Ahuja , Abhishek K. Gupta

Traditional single-modality sensing faces limitations in accuracy and capability, and its decoupled implementation with communication systems increases latency in bandwidth-constrained environments. Additionally, single-task-oriented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yubo Peng , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu