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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

Semantic Communication (SC) is a novel paradigm for data transmission in 6G. However, there are several challenges posed when performing SC in 3D scenarios: 1) 3D semantic extraction; 2) Latent semantic redundancy; and 3) Uncertain channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Feibo Jiang , Yubo Peng , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) have shown promise for end-to-end semantic image transmission. However, most existing schemes primarily focus on optimizing pixel-wise metrics, which often fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

Increasing demands for massive data transmission pose significant challenges to communication systems. Compared with traditional communication systems that focus on the accurate reconstruction of bit sequences, SemComs, which aim to deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Fengyu Wang , Yuan Zheng , Wenjun Xu , Junxiao Liang , Ping Zhang , Zhu Han

Semantic communication, augmented by knowledge bases (KBs), offers substantial reductions in transmission overhead and resilience to errors. However, existing methods predominantly rely on end-to-end training to construct KBs, often failing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Semantic communications (SemComs) have been considered as a promising solution to reduce the amount of transmitted information, thus paving the way for more energy-and spectrum-efficient wireless networks. Nevertheless, SemComs rely heavily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Nikos G. Evgenidis , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Ioannis Krikidis , George K. Karagiannidis

The advance of direct satellite-to-device communication has positioned mega-satellite constellations as a cornerstone of 6G wireless communication, enabling seamless global connectivity even in remote and underserved areas. However,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Binquan Guo , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Zhou Zhang , Baosheng Li , Zhu Han , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek

In next-generation wireless networks, supporting real-time applications such as augmented reality, autonomous driving, and immersive Metaverse services demands stringent constraints on bandwidth, latency, and reliability. Existing semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangyuan Liu , Yinqiu Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Abbas Jamalipour

We present our vision for a departure from the established way of architecting and assessing communication networks, by incorporating the semantics of information for communications and control in networked systems. We define semantics of…

Semantic communication emphasizes the transmission of meaning rather than raw symbols. It offers a promising solution to alleviate network congestion and improve transmission efficiency. In this paper, we propose a wireless image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Chen Zhu , Siyun Liang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Jianrong Bao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and extended reality, efficient transmission of point clouds (PCs) has become increasingly important. In this context, we propose a novel channel-adaptive cross-modal generative semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Qianqian Yang , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

As one of the potential key technologies of 6G, semantic communication is still in its infancy and there are many open problems, such as semantic entropy definition and semantic channel coding theory. To address these challenges, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shuai Ma , Chuanhui Zhang , Huayan Qi , Hang Li , Yue Bi , Guangming Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we propose a semantic communication approach based on probabilistic graphical model (PGM). The proposed approach involves constructing a PGM from a training dataset, which is then shared as common knowledge between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang , Jiancheng Tang , Zhiguo shi

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

Semantic communication (SemCom), as a typical paradigm of deep integration between artificial intelligence (AI) and communication technology, significantly improves communication efficiency and resource utilization efficiency. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Zhidi Zhang , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Xiaodong Xu

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

Semantic sentence embedding models encode natural language sentences into vectors, such that closeness in embedding space indicates closeness in the semantics between the sentences. Bilingual data offers a useful signal for learning such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 John Wieting , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

In this paper, the problem of wireless resource allocation and semantic information extraction for energy efficient semantic communications over wireless networks with rate splitting is investigated. In the considered model, a base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chongwen Huang

Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

With deployment of 6G technology, it is envisioned that competitive edge of wireless networks will be sustained and next decade's communication requirements will be stratified. Also 6G will aim to aid development of a human society which is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sridhar Iyer , Rajashri Khanai , Dattaprasad Torse , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Khaled Rabie , Krishna Pai , Wali Ullah Khan , Zubair Fadlullah