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Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Semantic communication (SemCom) is regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology in 6G, aiming to transcend the constraints of ``Shannon's trap" by filtering out redundant information and extracting the core of effective data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yining Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Bizhu Wang , Suyu Lv , Zhidi Zhang , Mengying Sun , Shujun Han , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

In the context of emerging 6G services, the realization of everything-to-everything interactions involving a myriad of physical and digital entities presents a crucial challenge. This challenge is exacerbated by resource scarcity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Masoud Shokrnezhad , Hamidreza Mazandarani , Tarik Taleb , Jaeseung Song , Richard Li

Each generation of cellular networks is characterized by its distinct capabilities and innovations, which reflect the significant milestones reached with each new release. 5G has made substantial progress through the deployment of advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gabriella Fernandes , Hélder Fontes , Rui Campos

In 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this, the main theme of wireless system design up until 5G was the data rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Qiao Lan , Dingzhu Wen , Zezhong Zhang , Qunsong Zeng , Xu Chen , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

Enriching information of spectrum coverage, radiomap plays an important role in many wireless communication applications, such as resource allocation and network optimization. To enable real-time, distributed spectrum management,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yueling Zhou , Achintha Wijesinghe , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang , Zhipeng Cai

Future mobile networks in the sixth generation (6G) are poised for a paradigm shift from conventional communication services toward comprehensive information services, driving the evolution of radio access network (RAN) architectures toward…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Xiaoyun Wang , Yutong Zhang , Sen Wang , Sun Qi , Hanning Wang , Qixing Wang , Jing Jin , Jiwei He , Nan Li

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

Due to the uncontrolled and complex real-life radio propagation environments, Claude Shannon's information theory of communications describes fundamental limits to state-of-the-art 5G radio access network (RAN) capacity, with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yangyishi Zhang , Khethiwe Mhlope , Aaron Walker , Fraser Burton

Semantic communication aims to facilitate purposeful information exchange among diverse intelligent entities, including humans, machines, and organisms. It emphasizes precise semantic transmission over data fidelity, striving for meaningful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuntao Wang

The development of the new generation of wireless technologies (6G) has led to an increased interest in semantic communication. Thanks also to recent developments in artificial intelligence and communication technologies, researchers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Federico Francesco Luigi Mariani , Michele Zhu , Maurizio Magarini

The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) and its embodiment through the O-RAN Alliance specifications are poised to revolutionize the telecom ecosystem. O-RAN promotes virtualized RANs where disaggregated components are connected via open…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Michele Polese , Leonardo Bonati , Salvatore D'Oro , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

Semantic-aware communication is a novel paradigm that draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of messages. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its potential to improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yong Xiao , Yiwei Liao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Mehdi Bennis

Recently, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potential in significant resource savings and efficient information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical cellular network paradigm where two modes of SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Lan Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

The open radio access network (O-RAN) describes an industry-driven open architecture and interfaces for building next generation RANs with artificial intelligence (AI) controllers. We circulated a survey among researchers, developers, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aly S. Abdalla , Pratheek S. Upadhyaya , Vijay K. Shah , Vuk Marojevic

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has emerged as a rapidly burgeoning field demonstrating significant potential in creating diverse contents intelligently and automatically. To support such artificial intelligence-generated content…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Chengsi Liang , Hongyang Du , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Dezong Zhao , Muhammad Ali Imran

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of wireless technology, the so-called 5G and beyond, promises to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Guangming Shi , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Xuemei Xie