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Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is an effective approach for semantic communication. However, current JSCC methods are difficult to integrate with existing communication network architectures, where application and network providers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wenzheng Kong , Wenyi Zhang

Lightweight and efficient deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a key technology for semantic communications. In this paper, we design a novel JSCC scheme named MambaJSCC, which utilizes a visual state space model with channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Xu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

Most existing semantic communication systems employ analog modulation, which is incompatible with modern digital communication systems. Although several digital transmission approaches have been proposed to address this issue, an end-to-end…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

This paper introduces Implicit-JSCC, a novel overfitted joint source-channel coding paradigm that directly optimizes channel symbols and a lightweight neural decoder for each source. This instance-specific strategy eliminates the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haotian Wu , Gen Li , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) method for video transmission based on conditional coding with asymmetric context. The conditional coding-based neural video compression requires to predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Xuechen Chen , Junting Li , Chuang Chen , Hairong Lin , Yishen Li

Semantic communication (SemComm) has emerged as a new communication paradigm. To enhance efficiency, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology has been further integrated into SemComm systems. However, existing MIMO SemComm systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Shijian Gao , Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi

Deep learning driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image or video transmission, also called DeepJSCC, has been a topic of interest recently with very promising results. The idea is to map similar source samples to nearby…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tze-Yang Tung , Deniz Gunduz

Though achieving marvelous progress in various scenarios, existing semantic communication frameworks mainly consider single-input single-output Gaussian channels or Rayleigh fading channels, neglecting the widely-used multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Wenjun Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Merouane Debbah

Lightweight and efficient neural network models for deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) are crucial for semantic communications. In this paper, we propose a novel JSCC architecture, named MambaJSCC, that achieves state-of-the-art…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Yaping Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

We propose a joint source and channel coding (JSCC) technique for wireless image transmission that does not rely on explicit codes for either compression or error correction; instead, it directly maps the image pixel values to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gunduz

Conventional communication systems, including both separation-based coding and AI-driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC), are largely guided by Shannon's rate-distortion theory. However, relying on generic distortion metrics fails to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Guo Lu , Li Song , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Nowadays, the demand for image transmission over wireless networks has surged significantly. To meet the need for swift delivery of high-quality images through time-varying channels with limited bandwidth, the development of efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohammad Amin Jarrahi , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Vahid Abolghasemi

Semantic communications (SemCom) have emerged as a new paradigm for supporting sixth-generation applications, where semantic features of data are transmitted using artificial intelligence algorithms to attain high communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jianhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Chuan Huang , Kaibin Huang

Deep learning enabled semantic communications are attracting extensive attention. However, most works normally ignore the data acquisition process and suffer from robustness issues under dynamic channel environment. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Zhiyuan Qi , Yulong Feng , Zhijin Qin

As one of the key techniques to realize semantic communications, end-to-end optimized neural joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has made great progress over the past few years. A general trend in many recent works pushing the model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Ke Yang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

In recent years, the Transformer architecture has achieved outstanding performance across a wide range of tasks and modalities. Token is the unified input and output representation in Transformer-based models, which has become a fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jingkai Ying , Zhijin Qin , Yulong Feng , Liejun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

We propose novel deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) algorithms for wireless image transmission over multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Rayleigh fading channels, when channel state information (CSI) is available only at the receiver.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gunduz

Significant progress has been made in wireless Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) using deep learning techniques. The latest DL-based image JSCC methods have demonstrated exceptional performance during transmission, while also avoiding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Hongjie Yuan , Weizhang Xu , Yuhuan Wang , Xingxing Wang

Recent works have shown that modern machine learning techniques can provide an alternative approach to the long-standing joint source-channel coding (JSCC) problem. Very promising initial results, superior to popular digital schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Tze-Yang Tung , David Burth Kurka , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz