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Semantic communications are expected to accomplish various semantic tasks with relatively less spectrum resource by exploiting the semantic feature of source data. To simultaneously serve both the data transmission and semantic tasks, joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jianhao Huang , Dongxu Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Wei Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving transmission efficiency and task-level reliability, yet most existing reliability-enhancement approaches rely on retransmission strategies driven by semantic fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Boyuan Li , Shuoyao Wang , Suzhi Bi , Liping Qian , Yunlong Cai

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

A general lossless joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on linear codes and random interleavers for multiple-access channels (MACs) is presented and then analyzed in this paper. By the information-spectrum approach and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-31 Shengtian Yang , Yan Chen , Peiliang Qiu

In recent developments, deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image transmission has made significant strides in performance enhancement. Nonetheless, the majority of existing DL-based JSCC methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Junyu Pan , Hanlei Li , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Cross-technology communication (CTC) is a promising technique that enables direct communications among incompatible wireless technologies without needing hardware modification. However, it has not been widely adopted in real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Shumin Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Yaping Sun , Qinglin Zhao

Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) remains attractive for text transmission due to its modularity and compatibility with mature entropy coders and powerful channel codes. However, SSCC often suffers from a pronounced cliff effect in low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziqiong Wang , Tianqi Ren , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Recent deep learning methods have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems. These methods, we call nonlinear transform source-channel coding (NTSCC), extract the semantic latent features of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Recent studies in joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have fostered a fresh paradigm in end-to-end semantic communication. Despite notable performance achievements, present initiatives in building semantic communication systems primarily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Guangyi Zhang , Pujing Yang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

To enable critical applications such as remote diagnostics, image classification must be guaranteed under bandwidth constraints and unreliable wireless channels through joint source and channel coding (JSCC) design. However, most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Wenchao Wu , Min Qiu , Yansha Deng , Jinhong Yuan

An adaptive joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme is presented for transmitting correlated sources over discrete-memoryless two-way channels subject to distortion constraints. The proposed JSCC scheme makes use of the previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (Deep-JSCC) has emerged as a promising semantic communication approach for wireless image transmission by jointly optimizing source and channel coding using deep learning techniques. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Yumin Park , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable prowess in code generation. However, automated code generation is still challenging since it requires a high-level semantic mapping between natural language requirements and codes. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yingwei Ma , Yue Yu , Shanshan Li , Yu Jiang , Yong Guo , Yuanliang Zhang , Yutao Xie , Xiangke Liao

The acquisition of Downlink (DL) channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is known to be a challenging task in multiuser massive MIMO systems when uplink/downlink channel reciprocity does not hold (e.g., in frequency division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Giuseppe Caire

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, achieving near-human levels in multiple language understanding challenges and aligning closely with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Zhenyi Wang , Li Zou , Shengyun Wei , Kai Li , Feifan Liao , Haibo Mi , Rongxuan Lai

In this paper, we propose a class of high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding methods that can closely adapt to the source distribution under the nonlinear transform, it can be collected under the name nonlinear transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

This paper introduces rateless joint source-channel coding (rateless JSCC). The code is rateless in that it is designed and optimized for a continuum of coding rates such that it achieves a desired distortion for any rate in that continuum.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Saeed R. Khosravirad

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end semantic communications, jointly learning to compress and protect task-relevant features over noisy channels. However, existing DeepJSCC schemes…