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In the new paradigm of semantic communication (SC), the focus is on delivering meanings behind bits by extracting semantic information from raw data. Recent advances in data-to-text models facilitate language-oriented SC, particularly for…

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Semantic communication in the 6G era has been deemed a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. However, its applications for the multi-user scenario, especially the broadcasting case,…

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Today, wireless networks are becoming responsible for serving intelligent applications, such as extended reality and metaverse, holographic telepresence, autonomous transportation, and collaborative robots. Although current fifth-generation…

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The last seventy years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's theoretical concept to current high-efficient practical systems. Classical communication systems address the capability-deficiency issue mainly by…

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Semantic communications, a promising approach for agent-human and agent-agent interactions, typically operate at a feature level, lacking true semantic understanding. This paper explores understanding-level semantic communications (ULSC),…

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With the recent advancements in edge artificial intelligence (AI), future sixth-generation (6G) networks need to support new AI tasks such as classification and clustering apart from data recovery. Motivated by the success of deep learning,…

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In the ensuing ultra-dense and diverse environment in future \ac{6G} communication networks, it will be critical to optimize network resources via mechanisms that recognize and cater to the diversity, density, and dynamicity of system…

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With the proliferation of edge computing, efficient AI inference on edge devices has become essential for intelligent applications such as autonomous vehicles and VR/AR. In this context, we address the problem of efficient remote object…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Dongyu Wei , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Hao Yin , Shuguang Cui

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

With the significant advances in AI-generated content (AIGC) and the proliferation of mobile devices, providing high-quality AIGC services via wireless networks is becoming the future direction. However, the primary challenges of AIGC…

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Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is emerging as a foundational paradigm for next-generation wireless networks, enabling communication infrastructures to simultaneously support data transmission and environment sensing. By…

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In this paper, the problem of semantic-based efficient image transmission is studied over the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In the considered model, a vehicle shares massive amount of visual data perceived by its visual sensors to assist…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to extract task-relevant information, thereby substantially reducing the volume of transmitted data. In existing implementations,…

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In this letter, we propose a semantic communication scheme for wireless relay channels based on Autoencoder, named AESC, which encodes and decodes sentences from the semantic dimension. The Autoencoder module provides anti-noise performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Bin Xia , Jiangzhou Wang

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…

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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

In the era of 6G, with compelling visions of intelligent transportation systems and digital twins, remote surveillance is poised to become a ubiquitous practice. Substantial data volume and frequent updates present challenges in wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yanli Yuan , Wenchao Jiang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Merouane Debbah

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling goal-oriented networking. However, most existing semantic communication solutions are tailored to one-shot tasks and optimize instantaneous performance. Hence, they…

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Intelligent voice assistants, such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, are widely used nowadays. These task-oriented dialogue systems require a semantic parsing module in order to process user utterances and understand the action to be…

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