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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-27 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

In the realm of semantic communication, the significance of encoded features can vary, while wireless channels are known to exhibit fluctuations across multiple subchannels in different domains. Consequently, critical features may traverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper explores opportunities and challenges of task (goal)-oriented and semantic communications for next-generation (NextG) communication networks through the integration of multi-task learning. This approach employs deep neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Motivated by the recent success of Machine Learning (ML) tools in wireless communications, the idea of semantic communication by Weaver from 1949 has gained attention. It breaks with Shannon's classic design paradigm by aiming to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

In the ensuing ultra-dense and diverse environment in future \ac{6G} communication networks, it will be critical to optimize network resources via mechanisms that recognize and cater to the diversity, density, and dynamicity of system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mayukh Roy Chowdhury , Eman Hammad , Lauri Loven , Susanna Pirttikangas , Aloizio P da Silva , Walid Saad

Semantic communications (SemCom), as one of the key technologies for 6G, is shifting networks from bit transmission to semantic information exchange. On this basis, introducing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with perception, memory,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Haixiao Gao , Mengying Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Yanhan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Nan Ma , Dusit Niyato , Ping Zhang

Establishing semantic correspondence is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match keypoints with the same semantic information across different images. Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, remarkable progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kaiyan Zhang , Xinghui Li , Jingyi Lu , Kai Han

We propose semantic communication over wireless channels for various modalities, e.g., text and images, in a task-oriented communications setup where the task is classification. We present two approaches based on memory and learning. Both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Emrecan Kutay , Aylin Yener

Semantic communication (SC) is recognized as a promising approach for enabling reliable communication with minimal data transfer while maintaining seamless connectivity for a group of wireless users. Unlocking the advantages of SC for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nitisha Singh , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, next-generation wireless communication network is facing unprecedented challenge. Semantic communication has become a novel solution to address such challenges, with enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Zihe Zhao , Chunyue Wang

In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hazem Barka , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis , Md Sahabul Alam , Minh Au

As mission-critical (MC) services such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based emergency communication and Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) enabled autonomous driving emerge, the traditional communication framework can not meet the growing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Hui Zhou , Jiaying Guo , Marios Aristodemou , Zhaoyang Du , Shen Wang , Xiaolan Liu , Soufiene Djahel , Celimuge Wu

Semantic communication (SemCom) is expected to be a core paradigm in future communication networks, yielding significant benefits in terms of spectrum resource saving and information interaction efficiency. However, the existing SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Chengsi Liang , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran , Dusit Niyato

Advances in machine learning technology have enabled real-time extraction of semantic information in signals which can revolutionize signal processing techniques and improve their performance significantly for the next generation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Mert Kalfa , Mehmetcan Gok , Arda Atalik , Busra Tegin , Tolga M. Duman , Orhan Arikan

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jeonghun Park , Sung Whan Yoon

Semantic Communication (SemCom) is envisaged as the next-generation paradigm to address challenges stemming from the conflicts between the increasing volume of transmission data and the scarcity of spectrum resources. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yuping Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

The recent emergence of 6G raises the challenge of increasing the transmission data rate even further in order to overcome the Shannon limit. Traditional communication methods fall short of the 6G goals, paving the way for Semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

With the rapid advancement and deployment of intelligent agents and artificial general intelligence (AGI), a fundamental challenge for future networks is enabling efficient communications among agents. Unlike traditional human-centric,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shaolong Guo , Yuntao Wang , Ning Zhang , Zhou Su , Tom H. Luan , Zhiyi Tian , Xuemin , Shen