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Semantic communications provide significant performance gains over traditional communications by transmitting task-relevant semantic features through wireless channels. However, most existing studies rely on end-to-end (E2E) training of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Joohyuk Park , Yongjeong Oh , Yongjune Kim , Yo-Seb Jeon

Semantic communication (SemCom) presents a transformative paradigm for alleviating bandwidth limitations in mobile networks by transmitting task-relevant semantic features instead of raw data bits. While SemCom systems utilizing diffusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

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

Vector quantization-based image semantic communication systems have successfully boosted transmission efficiency, but face challenges with conflicting requirements between codebook design and digital constellation modulation. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yingbin Zhou , Yaping Sun , Guanying Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Binhong Huang , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang

With the significant advances in generative AI (GAI) and the proliferation of mobile devices, providing high-quality AI-generated content (AIGC) services via wireless networks is becoming the future direction. However, the primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Runze Cheng , Yao Sun , Lan Zhang , Lei Feng , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Deep learning-based semantic communication has largely relied on analog or semi-digital transmission, which limits compatibility with modern digital communication infrastructures. Recent studies have employed vector quantization (VQ) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zian Meng , Qiang Li , Wenqian Tang , Mingdie Yan , Xiaohu Ge

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

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

We consider a class of wireless powered devices employing Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) to ensure reliable end-to-end communications over a two-state time-varying channel. A receiver, with no power source, relies on the energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Ozgur Ercetin , Mohamed Nafie , Tamer Elbatt

We consider multiple access with re-transmission diversity (RTxD) based on a hybrid automatic request (HARQ) protocol with incremental redundancy (IR) in this paper. In order to mitigate multiple access interference (MAI), we employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jinho Choi

Semantic communications (SemCom) is a promising task-oriented paradigm in which semantic features exhibit non-uniform importance. Consequently, unequal error protection (UEP), which allocates resources based on semantic importance, plays a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Xunyang Zhan , Jie Cao , Xu Zhu , Nikolaos Pappas , Zhijin Qin , Shaohan Feng

Recent advances in semantic communication (SC) have introduced neural network (NN)-based transceivers that convey semantic representation (SR) of signals such as images. However, these NNs are trained over diverse image distributions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

Recently, learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising approach in the upcoming 6G network and researchers have made remarkable efforts in this field. However, existing works have yet to fully explore the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz , Zhaoyang Zhang

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

Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

With the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), integrating artificial intelligence (AI) on extremely weak embedded devices has garnered significant attention, enabling improved real-time performance and enhanced data privacy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiaming Huang , Yi Gao , Fuchang Pan , Renjie Li , Wei Dong

In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Real-time remote estimation is critical for mission-critical applications including industrial automation, smart grid, and the tactile Internet. In this paper, we propose a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-based real-time remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Kang Huang , Wanchun Liu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is an effective approach for semantic communication. However, current JSCC methods are difficult to integrate with existing communication network architectures, where application and network providers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wenzheng Kong , Wenyi Zhang

This paper explores the concept of information importance in multi-modal task-oriented semantic communication systems, emphasizing the need for high accuracy and efficiency to fulfill task-specific objectives. At the transmitter, generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yi Ma , Chunmei Xu , Zhenyu Liu , Siqi Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli