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Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving security in semantic communication (SemCom) over a wiretap channel, where a legitimate receiver coexists with an eavesdropper experiencing a poorer channel condition. Despite previous efforts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Weixuan Chen , Shuo Shao , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves communication efficiency by transmitting task-relevant information instead of raw bits and is expected to be a key technology for 6G networks. Recent advances in generative AI (GenAI) further enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Shunpu Tang , Yuanyuan Jia , Zijiu Yang , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Du , Jihong Park , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

This paper proposes a generic approach for providing enhanced security to communication systems which encode their data for reliability before encrypting it through a stream cipher for security. We call this counter-intuitive technique the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Frederique Oggier , Miodrag J. Mihaljevic

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

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to transmit only task-relevant information, thereby improving communication efficiency but also exposing semantic information to potential eavesdropping. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

This letter investigates the secret communication problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the legitimate transmitter transmits an information-bearing signal to the legitimate receiver, and at the same time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Guyue Li , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom), as a typical paradigm of deep integration between artificial intelligence (AI) and communication technology, significantly improves communication efficiency and resource utilization efficiency. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Zhidi Zhang , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Xiaodong Xu

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Dusit Niyato

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

While semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information, it also raises critical privacy concerns. Many existing secure SemCom approaches rely on restrictive or impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Shunpu Tang , Zhiguo Shi , Shui Yu

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a key technology for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) network, attributed to its enhanced communication efficiency and robustness against channel noise. However, the open nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shunpu Tang , Chen Liu , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

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

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

Encoding schemes and error-correcting codes are widely used in information technology to improve the reliability of data transmission over real-world communication channels. Quantum information protocols can further enhance the performance…

Semantic communication (SC) offers promising advancements in data transmission efficiency and reliability by focusing on delivering true meaning rather than solely binary bits of messages. However, privacy concerns in SC might become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuesong Liu , Yao Sun , Runze Cheng , Le Xia , Hanaa Abumarshoud , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

We propose a new proof method for direct coding theorems for wiretap channels where the eavesdropper has access to a quantum version of the transmitted signal on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and the legitimate parties communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Janis Nötzel , Sławomir Stańczak
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