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The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system effectiveness and sustainability. Semantic communication goes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Spurred by a huge interest in the post-Shannon communication, it has recently been shown that leveraging semantics can significantly improve the communication effectiveness across many tasks. In this article, inspired by human…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

In 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this, the main theme of wireless system design up until 5G was the data rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Qiao Lan , Dingzhu Wen , Zezhong Zhang , Qunsong Zeng , Xu Chen , Petar Popovski , Kaibin Huang

Along with the springing up of the semantics-empowered communication (SemCom) research, it is now witnessing an unprecedentedly growing interest towards a wide range of aspects (e.g., theories, applications, metrics and implementations) in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhilin Lu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Xianfu Chen , Ekram Hossain , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

A group of transition probability functions form a Shannon's channel whereas a group of truth functions form a semantic channel. By the third kind of Bayes' theorem, we can directly convert a Shannon's channel into an optimized semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chenguang Lu

Semantic communication is a new paradigm for information transmission that integrates the essential meaning (semantics) of the message into the communication process. However, like in classic wireless communications, the open nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication is an emerging research area that has gained a wide range of attention recently. Despite this growing interest, there remains a notable absence of a comprehensive and widely-accepted framework for characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yulin Shao , Qi Cao , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on the transportation and delivery of the \emph{meaning} of messages. Recent results have verified that a graphical structure provides the most expressive and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yiwei Liao , Shurui Tu , Yujie Zhou , Dongzi Jin , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li

As one of the potential key technologies of 6G, semantic communication is still in its infancy and there are many open problems, such as semantic entropy definition and semantic channel coding theory. To address these challenges, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shuai Ma , Chuanhui Zhang , Huayan Qi , Hang Li , Yue Bi , Guangming Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we propose a semantic communication approach based on probabilistic graphical model (PGM). The proposed approach involves constructing a PGM from a training dataset, which is then shared as common knowledge between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang , Jiancheng Tang , Zhiguo shi

In Shannon theory, semantic aspects of communication were identified but considered irrelevant to the technical communication problems. Semantic communication (SC) techniques have recently attracted renewed research interests in (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Jinho Choi

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

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

Semantic communications utilize the transceiver computing resources to alleviate scarce transmission resources, such as bandwidth and energy. Although the conventional deep learning (DL) based designs may achieve certain transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Shuai Ma , Weining Qiao , Youlong Wu , Hang Li , Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Yuanming Shi , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The development of emerging applications, such as autonomous transportation systems, are expected to result in an explosive growth in mobile data traffic. As the available spectrum resource becomes more and more scarce, there is a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Wanting Yang , Zi Qin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xianbin Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication is an emerging paradigm that focuses on understanding and delivering semantics, or meaning of messages. Most existing semantic communication solutions define semantic meaning as the meaning of object labels recognized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jingming Liang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Mehdi Bennis

Shannon theory models communication as the reliable transfer of symbol sequences, with performance governed by capacity and rate-distortion limits. When both endpoints possess strong predictors -- as in modern large language models and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ozgur Ercetin , Mohaned Chraiti

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for communication. As a result, the establishment of a semantic communication framework is putting on the agenda. Based on a realistic semantic communication model, this paper develops a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yi-Qun Zhao , Zhi-Ming Ma , Geoffrey Ye Li , Shuai Yuan , Tong Ye , Chuan Zhou

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Loc X. Nguyen , Avi Deb Raha , Pyae Sone Aung , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor