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We propose a novel hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for robust image transmission over multi-hop networks. In the considered scenario, a mobile user wants to deliver an image to its destination over a mobile cellular…

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Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

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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…

Accurate and timely image transmission is critical for emerging time-sensitive applications such as remote sensing in satellite-assisted Internet of Things. However, the bandwidth limitation poses a significant challenge in existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Xiaolei Yang , Zijing Wang , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao

Recent research on joint source channel coding (JSCC) for wireless communications has achieved great success owing to the employment of deep learning (DL). However, the existing work on DL based JSCC usually trains the designed network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Ang Yang , Peng Sun , Miguel Rodrigues

This paper investigates an information-theoretic model of secure semantic-aware communication. For this purpose, we consider the lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) of a memoryless semantic source transmitted over a memoryless wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Loc X. Nguyen , Avi Deb Raha , Pyae Sone Aung , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

The fundamental limit of Semantic Communications (joint source-channel coding) is established when the transmission needs to be kept covert from an external warden. We derive information-theoretic achievability and matching converse results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

As one of the key techniques to realize semantic communications, end-to-end optimized neural joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has made great progress over the past few years. A general trend in many recent works pushing the model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Ke Yang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Benefited from the advances of deep learning (DL) techniques, deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has shown its great potential to improve the performance of wireless transmission. However, most of the existing works focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kaiyi Chi , Qianqian Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Yiping Duan , Zhaoyang Zhang

We propose a joint source and channel coding (JSCC) technique for wireless image transmission that does not rely on explicit codes for either compression or error correction; instead, it directly maps the image pixel values to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gunduz

Small satellites used for Earth observation generate vast amounts of high-dimensional data, but their operation in low Earth orbit creates a significant communication bottleneck due to limited contact times and harsh, varying channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Olga Kondrateva , Grace Li Zhang , Julian Zobel , Björn Scheuermann , Stefan Dietzel

Semantic communications have emerged as a new paradigm for improving communication efficiency by transmitting the semantic information of a source message that is most relevant to a desired task at the receiver. Most existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yufei Bo , Yiheng Duan , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao

This paper investigates distributed joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

A novel concept of Joint Source and Channel Sensing (JSCS) is introduced in the context of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSN). Every sensor node has two basic tasks: application-oriented source sensing and ambient-oriented channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Huazi Zhang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Rui Yin

We propose deep learning based communication methods for adaptive-bandwidth transmission of images over wireless channels. We consider the scenario in which images are transmitted progressively in layers over time or frequency, and such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gündüz

Task-oriented communications, mostly using learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC), aim to design a communication-efficient edge inference system by transmitting task-relevant information to the receiver. However, only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songjie Xie , Shuai Ma , Ming Ding , Yuanming Shi , Mingjian Tang , Youlong Wu

The increased throughput brought by MIMO technology relies on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) acquired in the base station (BS). To make the CSI feedback overhead affordable for the evolution of MIMO technology (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Wei Chen

Recent developments in Deep learning based Joint Source-Channel Coding (DeepJSCC) have demonstrated impressive capabilities within wireless semantic communications system. However, existing DeepJSCC methodologies exhibit limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Liang Zhang , Danlan Huang , Xinyi Zhou , Feng Ding , Sheng Wu , Zhiqing Wei