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This paper investigates an information-theoretic model of secure semantic-aware communication. For this purpose, we consider the lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) of a memoryless semantic source transmitted over a memoryless wiretap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

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

Collaborative perception, an emerging paradigm in autonomous driving, has been introduced to mitigate the limitations of single-vehicle systems, such as limited sensor range and occlusion. To improve the robustness of inter-vehicle data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Mingyi Lu , Guowei Liu , Le Liang , Chongtao Guo , Hao Ye , Shi Jin

By integrating recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and generative models into the emerging semantic communication (SC) paradigm, in this article we put forward to a novel framework of language-oriented semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xudong Long , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Yubin Zhao

Existing speech semantic communication systems mainly based on Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) architectures have demonstrated impressive performance, but their effectiveness remains limited by model structures specifically designed for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yun Tian , Zhijin Qin , Guocheng Lv , Ye Jin , Kaibin Huang , Zhu Han

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

In this paper, we introduce a large model-empowered streaming semantic communication system for speech transmission across various languages, named LSSC-ST. Specifically, we devise an edge-device collaborative semantic communication…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

In recent years, numerous data-intensive broadcasting applications have emerged at the wireless edge, calling for a flexible tradeoff between distortion, transmission rate, and processing complexity. While deep learning-based joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zijun Qin , Jingxuan Huang , Zesong Fei , Haichuan Ding , Yulin Shao , Xianhao 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

Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

Many wireless vision applications, such as autonomous driving, require preservation of global structural information rather than only per-pixel fidelity. However, existing Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes mainly optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Fang Fang , Sami Muhaidat

Diffusion Model (DM) based Semantic Image Communication (SIC) systems face significant challenges, such as slow inference speed and generation randomness, that limit their reliability and practicality. To overcome these issues, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Bilal Khalid , Pedro Freire , Sergei K. Turitsyn , Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky

This paper presents a vision transformer (ViT) based joint source and channel coding (JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, called ViT-MIMO. The proposed ViT-MIMO architecture, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haotian Wu , Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Krystian Mikolajczyk , Deniz Gündüz

Differing from the conventional communication system paradigm that models information source as a sequence of (i.i.d. or stationary) random variables, the semantic approach aims at extracting and sending the high-level features of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mingxiao Li , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

With the rapid development of the smart city, high-level autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing, and etc., the stringent industrial-level requirements of the extremely low latency and high reliability for communication and new trends…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zhiyong Feng , Zhiqing Wei , Xu Chen , Heng Yang , Qixun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication, rather than on a bit-by-bit recovery of the transmitted messages, focuses on the meaning and the goal of the communication itself. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic image coding scheme that preserves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Francesco Pezone , Osman Musa , Giuseppe Caire , Sergio Barbarossa

Developing channel-adaptive deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) systems is a critical challenge in wireless image transmission. While recent advancements have been made, most existing approaches are designed for static channel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Hanlei Li , Guangyi Zhang , Kequan Zhou , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Satellite-terrestrial communications are severely constrained by high path loss, limited spectrum resources, and time-varying channel conditions, rendering conventional bit-level transmission schemes inefficient and fragile, particularly in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinghong Huang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Jianchi Zhu , Zechuan Fang , Jingxuan Zhang , Ruichen Zhang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato