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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to be one of the major features of 6G wireless networks. In an ISAC system, communications and sensing functionalities are jointly performed using the same waveform, frequency band and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Homa Nikbakht , Husheng Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Semantic communication has shown great potential in boosting the effectiveness and reliability of communications. However, its systems to date are mostly enabled by deep learning, which requires demanding computing resources. This article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhijin Qin , Jingkai Ying , Dingxi Yang , Hengjiang Wang , Xiaoming Tao

This paper studies the problem of the lightweight image semantic communication system that is deployed on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In the considered system model, devices must use semantic communication techniques to support user…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Guoxin Ma , Haonan Tong , Nuocheng Yang , Changchuan Yin

A new interference management scheme based on integer forcing (IF) receivers is studied for the two-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel. The proposed scheme employs a message splitting method that divides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie

Semantic communication (SemCom) powered by generative artificial intelligence enables highly efficient and reliable information transmission. However, it still necessitates the transmission of substantial amounts of data when dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui

Semantic communications target to reliably convey the semantic meaning of messages. It is different from existing communication systems focusing on reliable bit transmission. To achieve the goal of semantic communications, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Peng Zhang

We propose a data-aided transmit beamforming scheme for the multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink channel. While conventional beamforming schemes aim at the minimization of the transmit power subject to suppressing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 C. Masouros , G. Zheng

Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

Semantic communications aim to enhance transmission efficiency by jointly optimizing source coding, channel coding, and modulation. While prior research has demonstrated promising performance in simulations, real-world implementations often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Dongha Choi , Yonghwi Kim , Yoontae Kim , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

A latent denoising semantic communication (SemCom) framework is proposed for robust image transmission over noisy channels. By incorporating a learnable latent denoiser into the receiver, the received signals are preprocessed to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication serves as a novel paradigm and attracts the broad interest of researchers. One critical aspect of it is the multi-user semantic communication theory, which can further promote its application to the practical network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Weizhi Li , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Kaijun Liu

Although existing semantic communication systems have achieved great success, they have not considered that the channel is time-varying wherein deep fading occurs occasionally. Moreover, the importance of each semantic feature differs from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

Semantic Communication (SC) has emerged as a novel communication paradigm in recent years, successfully transcending the Shannon physical capacity limits through innovative semantic transmission concepts. Nevertheless, extant Image Semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Feibo Jiang , Chuanguo Tang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, next-generation wireless communication network is facing unprecedented challenge. Semantic communication has become a novel solution to address such challenges, with enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Zihe Zhao , Chunyue Wang

Semantic communication (SC) is emerging as a pivotal innovation within the 6G framework, aimed at enabling more intelligent transmission. This development has led to numerous studies focused on designing advanced systems through powerful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Guangyi Zhang , Kequan Zhou , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

This paper considers the so-called multiple-input-multiple-output interference channel (MIMO-IC) which has relevance in applications such as multi-cell coordination in cellular networks as well as spectrum sharing in cognitive radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Zuleita Ka Ming Ho , David Gesbert

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

Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs) rely on high-speed data transmission for efficient and safety-critical services. However, the scarcity of wireless resources limits the capabilities of ICVs. Semantic Communication (SemCom) systems can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Daiqi Zhang , Bizhu Wang , Wenqi Zhang , Chen Sun , Xiaodong Xu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising solution to accelerate edge inference via the dual use of wireless signals. However, this paradigm needs to minimize the inference error and latency under ISAC co-functionality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Xibin Jin , Guoliang Li , Shuai Wang , Miaowen Wen , Chengzhong Xu , H. Vincent Poor