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Goal-oriented Communication (GoC) is a new paradigm that plans data transmission to occur only when it is instrumental for the receiver to achieve a certain goal. This leads to the advantage of reducing the frequency of transmissions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Pietro Talli , Andrea Zanella

We address the real-time remote tracking problem in a status update system comprising two sensors, two independent information sources, and a remote monitor. The status updating follows a pull-based communication, where the monitor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Marian Codreanu

Goal-oriented communication (GoC) is a form of semantic communication where the effectiveness of information transmission is measured by its impact on achieving the desired goal. In Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, GoC can enable sensors…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Prasoon Raghuwanshi , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , I-Hong Hou , Vimal Bhatia , Matti Latva-aho

This paper addresses query scheduling for goal-oriented semantic communication in pull-based status update systems. We consider a system where multiple sensing agents (SAs) observe a source characterized by various attributes and provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

We study the design of a goal-oriented sampling and scheduling strategy through a channel with highly variable two-way random delay, which can exhibit memory (e.g., Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks). The objective of the communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Cagri Ari , Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Elif Uysal , Yin Sun

This paper investigates goal-oriented communication for remote estimation of multiple Markov sources in resource-constrained networks. An agent decides the updating times of the sources and transmits the packet to a remote destination over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper presents a novel framework for goal-oriented semantic communications leveraging recursive early exit models. The proposed approach is built on two key components. First, we introduce an innovative early exit strategy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jary Pomponi , Mattia Merluzzi , Alessio Devoto , Mateus Pontes Mota , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Goal-oriented communication shifts the focus from merely delivering timely information to maximizing decision-making effectiveness by prioritizing the transmission of high-value information. In this context, we introduce the Goal-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kunpeng Liu , Shaohua Wu , Aimin Li , Qinyu Zhang

Goal-oriented communication entails the timely transmission of updates related to a specific goal defined by the application. In a distributed setup with multiple sensors, each individual sensor knows its own observation and can determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

Goal-oriented communication has become one of the focal concepts in sixth-generation communication systems owing to its potential to provide intelligent, immersive, and real-time mobile services. The emerging paradigms of goal-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Lintao Li , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Wei Chen

Pragmatic or goal-oriented communication can optimize communication decisions beyond the reliable transmission of data, instead aiming at directly affecting application performance with the minimum channel utilization. In this paper, we…

We consider a wireless networked control system (WNCS) with bidirectional imperfect links for real-time applications such as smart grids. To maintain the stability of WNCS, captured by the probability that plant state violates preset…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Jie Cao , Ernest Kurniawan , Amnart Boonkajay , Nikolaos Pappas , Sumei Sun , Petar Popovski

We study a pull-based communication system where a sensing agent updates an actuation agent using a query control policy, which is adjusted in the evolution of an observed information source and the usefulness of each update for achieving a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Petar Popovski , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we consider a goal-oriented communication problem for edge server monitoring, where jobs arrive intermittently at multiple dispatchers and must be assigned to shared edge servers with finite queues and time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Samuel Chamoun , Christian McDowell , Robin Buchanan , Kevin Chan , Eric Graves , Yin Sun

The accelerated pace of space exploration and satellite connectivity calls for scalable communication network architectures that can effectively cater for increasing numbers of bursty flows, such as those occurring in remote monitoring and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Elif Uysal

Taking inspiration from linguistics, the communications theoretical community has recently shown a significant recent interest in pragmatic , or goal-oriented, communication. In this paper, we tackle the problem of pragmatic communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Josefine Holm , Federico Chiariotti , Anders E. Kalør , Beatriz Soret , Torben Bach Pedersen , Petar Popovski

We consider the problem of transmission scheduling for the remote estimation of a discrete-time autoregressive Markov process that is driven by white Gaussian noise. A sensor observes this process, and then decides to either encode the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Manali Dutta , Rahul Singh

This paper investigates goal-oriented remote monitoring of an unobservable Markov source using energy-harvesting sensors that communicate with a mobile receiver, such as a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Sehani Siriwardana , Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana , Richard Demo Souza , Abolfazl Zakeri , Onel Luis Alcaraz López

Goal-Oriented (GO) Dialogue Systems, colloquially known as goal oriented chatbots, help users achieve a predefined goal (e.g. book a movie ticket) within a closed domain. A first step is to understand the user's goal by using natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Vladimir Ilievski , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl

This paper studies decision-making for goal-oriented effective communication. We consider an end-to-end status update system where a sensing agent (SA) observes a source, generates and transmits updates to an actuation agent (AA), while the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Petar Popovski , Marios Kountouris
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