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Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

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As the volume of image data grows, data-oriented cloud computing in Internet of Video Things (IoVT) systems encounters latency issues. Task-oriented edge computing addresses this by shifting data analysis to the edge. However, limited…

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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT) enables task-oriented communication for multi-edge cooperative inference system, where edge devices transmit extracted features of local sensory data to an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Dongwon Kim , Jiwan Seo , Joonhyuk Kang

This paper presents an adaptive framework for edge inference based on a dynamically configurable transformer-powered deep joint source channel coding (DJSCC) architecture. Motivated by a practical scenario where a resource constrained edge…

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This paper aims to design robust Edge Intelligence using semantic communication for time-critical IoT applications. We systematically analyze the effect of image DCT coefficients on inference accuracy and propose the channel-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Andrea Cavagna , Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Francesco Pezone

The rapid development of deep-learning enabled task-oriented communications (TOC) significantly shifts the paradigm of wireless communications. However, the high computation demands, particularly in resource-constrained systems e.g., mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Chao Ren , Mikael Skoglund

In this article, we present a novel framework, named distributed task-oriented communication networks (DTCN), based on recent advances in multimodal semantic transmission and edge intelligence. In DTCN, the multimodal knowledge of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Jie Guo , Hao Chen , Bin Song , Yuhao Chi , Chau Yuen , Fei Richard Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li , Dusit Niyato

In the near future, Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices (e.g., smartphones and sensors), which generate massive real-time data at the network edge. Intelligence can be distilled from the data to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qiao Lan , Zezhong Zhang , Yuqing Du , Zhenyi Lin , Kaibin Huang

Expected to provide higher transportation efficiency and security, autonomous driving has attracted substantial attentions from both industry and academia. Meanwhile, the emergence of edge intelligence has further introduced significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Yunqi Feng , Hesheng Shen , Zhendong Shan , Qianqian Yang , Xiufang Shi

This paper explores the growing need for task-oriented communications in warehouse logistics, where traditional communication Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)-such as latency, reliability, and throughput-often do not fully meet task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jiaming Yang , Zhen Meng , Xiangmin Xu , Kan Chen , Emma Liying Li , Philip Guodong G. Zhao

Given the fast growth of intelligent devices, it is expected that a large number of high-stake artificial intelligence (AI) applications, e.g., drones, autonomous cars, tactile robots, will be deployed at the edge of wireless networks in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Kai Yang , Yong Zhou , Zhanpeng Yang , Yuanming Shi

Rare events, despite their infrequency, often carry critical information and require immediate attentions in mission-critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and industrial automation. The data-intensive nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 You Zhou , Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly prevalent in autonomous systems, distributed control, and edge intelligence, efficient communication under resource constraints has emerged as a critical challenge. Traditional communication…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas , Nikolaos Nomikos , Risto Wichman

Task-oriented integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) is a key technology for achieving low-latency edge inference and enabling efficient implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial cyber-physical systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang , Shuguang Cui

Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Shuai Lyu , Yao Sun , Linke Guo , Xiaoyong Yuan , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

Real-time artificial intelligence (AI) applications mapped onto edge computing need to perform data capture, process data, and device actuation within given bounds while using the available devices. Task synchronization across the devices…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Richard Olaniyan , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

The massive growth in the utilization of edge AI has made the applications of machine learning models ubiquitous in different domains. Despite the computation and communication efficiency of these systems, due to limited computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep…

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