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Non-ideal communication links, especially delays, critically affect fast networked controls in power systems, such as the wide-area damping control (WADC). Traditionally, a delay estimation and compensation approach is adopted to address…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Kyung-bin Kwon , Lintao Ye , Vijay Gupta , Hao Zhu

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

We present an AI-based framework for semantic transmission of multimedia data over band-limited, time-varying channels. The method targets scenarios where large content is split into multiple packets, with an unknown number potentially…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Nargis Fayaz , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

Recently a powerful class of rate-compatible serially concatenated convolutional codes (SCCCs) have been proposed based on minimizing analytical upper bounds on the error probability in the error floor region. Here this class of codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Fredrik Brannstrom , Lars K. Rasmussen

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

This paper finds new tight finite-blocklength bounds for the best achievable lossy joint source-channel code rate, and demonstrates that joint source-channel code design brings considerable performance advantage over a separate one in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

Semantic communication, enabled by deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC), is widely expected to inherit the vulnerability of deep learning to adversarial perturbations. This paper challenges this prevailing belief and reveals a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Hongyu An , Zhijin Qin , Kaibin Huang

This paper applies Information Theoretic analysis to packet-based random multiple access communication systems. A new channel coding approach is proposed for coding within each data packet with built-in support for bursty traffic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jie Luo , Anthony Ephremides

Generative joint source-channel coding (GJSCC) has emerged as a new Deep JSCC paradigm for achieving high-fidelity and robust image transmission under extreme wireless channel conditions, such as ultra-low bandwidth and low signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Kailin Tan , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

A composite source, consisting of multiple subsources and a memoryless switch, outputs one symbol at a time from the subsource selected by the switch. If some data should be encoded more accurately than other data from an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiakun Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Iickho Song , Wenyi Zhang

This letter introduces a multi-rate task-oriented communication (MR-ToC) framework. This framework dynamically adapts to variations in affordable data rate within the communication pipeline. It conceptualizes communication pipelines as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo

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

A low-complexity all-analog circuit is proposed to perform efficiently Analog Joint Source Channel Coding (AJSCC), which can compress two or more sensor signals into one with controlled distortion while also being robust against wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Xueyuan Zhao , Vidyasagar Sadhu , Dario Pompili

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

Generative semantic communication models are reshaping semantic communication frameworks by moving beyond pixel-wise optimization to align with human perception. However, many existing approaches prioritize image-level perceptual quality,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Kailang Ye , Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Daquan Feng

Increasing network utilization is often considered as the holy grail of communications. In this article, the concept of sub-rate coding and decoding in the framework of linear network coding (LNC) is discussed for single-source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ben Grinboim , Itay Shrem , Ofer Amrani

We introduce a novel network-adaptive algorithm that is suitable for alleviating network packet losses for low-latency interactive communications between a source and a destination. Our network-adaptive algorithm estimates in real-time the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Salma Emara , Silas L. Fong , Baochun Li , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , Xiaoqing Zhu , John Apostolopoulos

Distributed Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (DOSTBCs) achieving full diversity order and single-symbol ML decodability have been introduced recently for cooperative networks and an upper-bound on the maximal rate of such codes along with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-31 J. Harshan , B. Sundar Rajan

Necessary conditions for asymptotically optimal sliding-block or stationary codes for source coding and rate-constrained simulation of memoryless sources are presented and used to motivate a design technique for trellis-encoded source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Mark Z. Mao , Robert M. Gray , Tamas Linder

In this work, we introduce Blank Space Adaptive Causal Random Linear Network Coding (BS-AC-RLNC), a novel coding scheme designed to mitigate the triplet trade-off between throughput-delay-efficiency in multi-hop networks. BS-AC-RLNC…

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