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Two-way relaying in wireless systems has initiated a large research effort during the past few years. While one-way relay with a single data flow introduces loss in spectral efficiency due to its half-duplex operation, two-way relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Huaping Liu , Petar Popovski , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Yuping Zhao , Fan Sun , Chan Dai Truyen Thai

In this paper, we address task-oriented (or goal-oriented) communications where an encoder at the transmitter learns compressed latent representations of data, which are then transmitted over a wireless channel. At the receiver, a decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

We propose a multi-reference and adaptive nonlinear transform source-channel coding (MA-NTSCC) system for wireless image semantic transmission to improve rate-distortion (RD) performance by introducing multi-dimensional contexts into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Cheng Yuan , Yufei Jiang , Xu Zhu

We propose Vision-Language Feature-based Multimodal Semantic Communication (VLF-MSC), a unified system that transmits a single compact vision-language representation to support both image and text generation at the receiver. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Gwangyeon Ahn , Jiwan Seo , Joonhyuk Kang

Time series classification (TSC) performance depends not only on architectural design but also on the diversity of input representations. In this work, we propose a scalable multi-scale convolutional framework that systematically integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Celal Alagöz , Mehmet Kurnaz , Farhan Aadil

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Mingyang Sun , Jiming Chen

Task-oriented semantic communications have achieved significant performance gains. However, the employed deep neural networks in semantic communications have to be updated when the task is changed or multiple models need to be stored for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Xiaoming Tao

We introduce a new semantic communication mechanism - SemanticRL, whose key idea is to preserve the semantic information instead of strictly securing the bit-level precision. Unlike previous methods that mainly concentrate on the network or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kun Lu , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Meta learning has been widely used to exploit rich-resource source tasks to improve the performance of low-resource target tasks. Unfortunately, most existing meta learning approaches treat different source tasks equally, ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yu Fu , Jie He , Yifan Yang , Qun Liu , Deyi Xiong

Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) can significantly improve the throughput of wireless two way relay channel (TWRC) by allowing the two end nodes to transmit messages to the relay simultaneously. To achieve reliable communication, channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shengli Zhang , Soung-Chang Liew

The challenges in dense ultra-reliable low-latency communication networks to deliver the required service to multiple devices are addressed by three main technologies: multiple antennas at the base station (MISO), rate splitting multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Eduard Jorswieck , Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Jesús Gutiérrez

This paper considers transmission schemes in multi-access relay networks (MARNs) where $J$ single-antenna sources send independent information to one $N$-antenna destination through one $M$-antenna relay. For complexity considerations, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-06 Liangbin Li , Yindi Jing , Hamid Jafarkhani

In this paper, we consider the ChannelComp framework, where multiple transmitters aim to compute a function of their values at a common receiver while using digital modulations over a multiple access channel. ChannelComp provides a general…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Xiaojing Yan , Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione

Semantic communication is recognized for its high compression efficiency and robust resistance to noise. However, utilizing a fixed transmission rate in environments with dynamic signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) often results in inefficient use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zhiye Sun , Shuai Ma , Shiyin Li

This paper considers multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay communication in multi-cellular (interference) systems in which MIMO source-destination pairs communicate simultaneously. It is assumed that due to severe attenuation and/or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Muhammad R A Khandaker , Kai-Kit Wong

Robotic sensor network (RSN) is an emerging paradigm that harvests data from remote sensors adopting mobile robots. However, communication and control functionalities in RSNs are interdependent, for which existing approaches become…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zhiyou Ji , Yujie Wan , Guoliang Li , Shuai Wang , Kejiang Ye , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengzhong Xu

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to support parameter estimation in machine-type communications (MTC). We focus on a network where single-antenna sensors transmit spatially correlated measurements to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

We consider a multi-way relay network with an orthogonal uplink and correlated sources, and we characterise reliable communication (in the usual Shannon sense) with a single-letter expression. The characterisation is obtained using a joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Roy Timo , Gottfried Lechner , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xue Han , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Biqian Feng , Yuxuan Shi , Deniz Gündüz , Wenjun Zhang

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology aiming to surpass the Shannon limit. Traditional SC strategies often minimize signal distortion between the original and reconstructed data, neglecting perceptual quality, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Rui Li , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han