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Semantic communications (SemComs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for joint data and task-oriented transmissions, combining the demands for both the bit-accurate delivery and end-to-end (E2E) distortion minimization. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dongxu Li , Kai Yuan , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang

Reliably transmitting messages despite information loss due to a noisy channel is a core problem of information theory. One of the most important aspects of real world communication, e.g. via wifi, is that it may happen at varying levels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Karen Ullrich , Fabio Viola , Danilo Jimenez Rezende

Recent research on joint source channel coding (JSCC) for wireless communications has achieved great success owing to the employment of deep learning (DL). However, the existing work on DL based JSCC usually trains the designed network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Ang Yang , Peng Sun , Miguel Rodrigues

Coping with the impact of dynamic channels is a critical issue in joint source-channel coding (JSCC)-based semantic communication systems. In this paper, we propose a lightweight channel-adaptive semantic coding architecture called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hongwei Zhang , Meixia Tao

In this paper we introduce Neural Network Coding(NNC), a data-driven approach to joint source and network coding. In NNC, the encoders at each source and intermediate node, as well as the decoder at each destination node, are neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Litian Liu , Amit Solomon , Salman Salamatian , Muriel Medard

We present a scalable and efficient neural waveform coding system for speech compression. We formulate the speech coding problem as an autoencoding task, where a convolutional neural network (CNN) performs encoding and decoding as a neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Kai Zhen , Jongmo Sung , Mi Suk Lee , Seungkwon Beak , Minje Kim

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

Semantic- and task-oriented communication has emerged as a promising approach to reducing the latency and bandwidth requirements of next-generation mobile networks by transmitting only the most relevant information needed to complete a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Michèle A. Wigger , Tze-Yang Tung , Ping Zhang , Yong Xiao

We propose a joint source-channel-network coding scheme, based on compressive sensing principles, for wireless networks with AWGN channels (that may include multiple access and broadcast), with sources exhibiting temporal and spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

This paper provides lower bounds on the reconstruction error for transmission of two continuous correlated random vectors sent over both sum and parallel channels using the help of two causal feedback links from the decoder to the encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Ayşe Ünsal , Raymond Knopp

Neural diffusion processes provide a scalable, non-Gaussian approach to modelling distributions over functions, but existing formulations are limited to single-task inference and do not capture dependencies across related tasks. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Joseph Rawson , Domniki Ladopoulou , Petros Dellaportas

In this paper, we consider the problem of remote vector Gaussian source coding for a wireless acoustic sensor network. Each node receives messages from multiple nodes in the network and decodes these messages using its own measurement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Adel Zahedi , Jan Ostergaard , Soren Holdt Jensen , Patrick Naylor , Soren Bech

We propose a multi-reference and adaptive nonlinear transform source-channel coding (MA-NTSCC) system for wireless image semantic transmission to improve rate-distortion (RD) performance by introducing multi-dimensional contexts into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Cheng Yuan , Yufei Jiang , Xu Zhu

Consensus is a common method for computing a function of the data distributed among the nodes of a network. Of particular interest is distributed average consensus, whereby the nodes iteratively compute the sample average of the data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ryan Pilgrim

A joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme based on hybrid digital/analog coding is proposed for the transmission of correlated sources over discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The scheme utilizes the correlation between the…

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

We present a decode-and-forward transmission scheme based on spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes for a network consisting of two (possibly correlated) sources, one relay, and one destination. The links between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Stefan Schwandter , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gerald Matz

Benefited from the advances of deep learning (DL) techniques, deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has shown its great potential to improve the performance of wireless transmission. However, most of the existing works focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kaiyi Chi , Qianqian Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Yiping Duan , Zhaoyang Zhang

We propose an adaptive lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for sending correlated sources over two-terminal discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The main idea is to couple the independent operations of the terminals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

We address the distributed estimation of an unknown scalar parameter in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Sensor nodes transmit their noisy observations over multiple access channel to a Fusion Center (FC) that reconstructs the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Mohammed F. A. Ahmed , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü