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With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

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This work aims to investigate semantic communication in high-speed mobile Internet of vehicles (IoV) environments, with a focus on the spectrum sharing between vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhiyu Shao , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks are expected to support low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aerial robots operate in highly dynamic three-dimensional environments under stringent latency,…

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With the advent of 6G networks, offering ultra-high bandwidth and ultra-low latency, coupled with the enhancement of terminal device resolutions, holographic communication is gradually becoming a reality. Holographic digital twin (HDT) is…

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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,…

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Generative Semantic Communication (GSC) is a promising solution for image transmission over narrow-band and high-noise channels. However, existing GSC methods rely on long, indirect transport trajectories from a Gaussian to an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Dahua Gao , Ruichao Liu , Minxi Yang , Shuai Ma , Youlong Wu , Guangming Shi

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

In this paper, we develop a deep learning based semantic communication system for speech transmission, named DeepSC-ST. We take the speech recognition and speech synthesis as the transmission tasks of the communication system, respectively.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Chengkang Pan , Guangyi Liu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication (SemCom) demonstrates strong superiority over conventional bit-level accurate transmission, by only attempting to recover the essential semantic information of data. In this paper, in order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Siyu Tong , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

This paper introduces an integrated sensing, computing, and semantic communication (ISCSC) framework tailored for smart healthcare systems. The framework is evaluated in the context of smart healthcare, optimising the transmit beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Yinchao Yang , Zhaohui Yang , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Xiaowen Cao , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

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

Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

The problem of designing downlink transmission schemes for supporting heterogeneous ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and/or with other types of services is investigated. We consider the broadcast channel, where the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Min Qiu , Yu-Chih Huang , Jinhong Yuan

This letter proposes a novel anti-interference technique, semantic interference cancellation (SemantIC), for enhancing information quality towards the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. SemantIC only requires the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Lixin Li , Zhu Han , Tad Matsumoto

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

The exponential growth of wireless users and bandwidth constraints necessitates innovative communication paradigms for next-generation networks. Semantic Communication (SemCom) emerges as a promising solution by transmitting extracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Yingzhuo Sun , Jingwen Fu , Alper Kose , Leila Musavian , Ming Xiao , Berna Ozbek

Semantic communication significantly reduces required bandwidth by understanding semantic meaning of the transmitted. However, current deep learning-based semantic communication methods rely on joint source-channel coding design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is recognized as one of the key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, facilitating diverse emerging applications and services in an energy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar

Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

To accommodate the evolving demands of unmanned operations, the future sixth-generation (6G) network will support not only communication links but also sensing-communication-computing-control ($\mathbf{SC}^3$) loops. In each $\mathbf{SC}^3$…

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