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Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) are emerging as a pivotal element in the evolution of future wireless networks. Despite their potential, the joint design of communication and computation within SAGINs remains a formidable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Wei Xu , Kaibin Huang

The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system effectiveness and sustainability. Semantic communication goes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

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

This article studies effective communication, one of the three forms identified by Weaver and Shannon, as an enabler for the upcoming 6G use cases. The envisioned tactile, holographic, and multi-sensory communications require bandwidths in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ece Gelal Soyak , Ozgur Ercetin

Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jeonghun Park , Sung Whan Yoon

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 is regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, which transmits only semantic information to significantly improve communication efficiency. This article introduces a framework for generalized semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhijin Qin , Feifei Gao , Bo Lin , Xiaoming Tao , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Semantic communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, the existing semantic communication frameworks do not involve inference and error correction, which limits the achievable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Xinyuan Zhang , Qihui Wu , Xianfu Lei , Rose Qingyang Hu

Semantic communication has attracted significant interest recently due to its capability to meet the fast growing demand on user-defined and human-oriented communication services such as holographic communications, eXtended reality (XR),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi , Walid Saad

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

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 (SC) enables bandwidth-efficient coordination in multi-agent systems by transmitting meaning rather than raw bits. However, when agents employ heterogeneous sensing modalities and AI architectures, perfect bit-level…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Mingzhe Chen

Semantic communications have emerged as a crucial research direction for future wireless communication networks. However, as wireless systems become increasingly complex, the demands for computation and communication resources in semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Xuyang Chen , Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Daquan Feng , Pei Xiao

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs) are pivotal for enabling ubiquitous connectivity in 6G systems, yet they face significant challenges due to severe satellite-to-ground link impairments. Although Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yanbo Yin , Dingzhu Wen , Changsheng You , XiaoWen Cao , Tat-Ming Lok , Dusit Niyato

Shannon theory models communication as the reliable transfer of symbol sequences, with performance governed by capacity and rate-distortion limits. When both endpoints possess strong predictors -- as in modern large language models and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ozgur Ercetin , Mohaned Chraiti

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an important role in the low-altitude economy and have been used in various applications. However, with the increasing number of UAVs and explosive wireless data, the existing bit-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Boya Li , Xiaonan Liu , Dongzhu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received great interest due to their scalability, energy efficiency, and low-cost deployment. By utilizing multi-hop communication, WSNs can cover a wide area using low transmission power without the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jonathan Oostvogels , Bingwu Fang , Danny Hughes , Maarten Weyn , Jeroen Famaey

Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz