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Semantic Communication (SemCom) systems, empowered by deep learning (DL), represent a paradigm shift in data transmission. These systems prioritize the significance of content over sheer data volume. However, existing SemCom designs face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning for effective task execution, but differing latent representations in AI-native devices can cause semantic mismatches that hinder mutual understanding. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Giuseppe Di Poce , Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

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

In task-oriented semantic communications, the transmitters are designed to deliver task-related semantic information rather than every signal bit to receivers, which alleviates the spectrum pressure by reducing network traffic loads.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hong Chen , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

This article investigates the exploitation of semantic communications in multi-user networks. We propose a novel heterogeneous semantic and bit multi-user framework for providing flawless, customized, and intelligent information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

The physical-virtual world synchronization to develop the Metaverse will require a massive transmission and exchange of data. In this paper, we introduce semantic communication for the development of virtual transportation networks in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Wei Chong Ng , Hongyang Du , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Chunyan Miao

Semantic communication (SemCom) is emerging as a key technology for future sixth-generation (6G) systems. Unlike traditional bit-level communication (BitCom), SemCom directly optimizes performance at the semantic level, leading to superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Caijun Zhong , Kaibin Huang

Task-oriented semantic communications have achieved significant performance gains. However, the employed deep neural networks in semantic communications have to be updated when the task is changed or multiple models need to be stored for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Xiaoming Tao

Traditional communication systems focus on the transmission process, and the context-dependent meaning has been ignored. The fact that 5G system has approached Shannon limit and the increasing amount of data will cause communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Shujun Han , Bizhu Wang , Ping Zhang

Generative semantic communication (Gen-SemCom) with large artificial intelligence (AI) model promises a transformative paradigm for 6G networks, which reduces communication costs by transmitting low-dimensional prompts rather than raw data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communications (SC) is an emerging communication paradigm in which wireless devices can send only relevant information from a source of data while relying on computing resources to regenerate missing data points. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

By integrating recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and generative models into the emerging semantic communication (SC) paradigm, in this article we put forward to a novel framework of language-oriented semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Considering the infrastructure deployment cost and energy consumption, it is unrealistic to provide seamless coverage of the vehicular network. The presence of uncovered areas tends to hinder the prevalence of the in-vehicle services with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Wanting Yang , Xuefen Chi , Linlin Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Wenchao Jiang

Semantic communication transmits the extracted features of information rather than raw data, significantly reducing redundancy, which is crucial for addressing spectrum and energy challenges in 6G networks. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenjun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Kezhi Wang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, a semantic communication framework for image transmission is developed. In the investigated framework, a set of servers cooperatively transmit images to a set of users utilizing semantic communication techniques. To evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenjing Zhang , Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging paradigm that leverages semantic-level understanding to improve communication efficiency, particularly in resource-constrained scenarios. However, existing SemCom systems often overlook diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xinyi Lin , Peizheng Li , Adnan Aijaz

Semantic communications are expected to become the core new paradigms of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Most existing works implicitly utilize channel information for codecs training, which leads to poor communications when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Lan Lin , Wenjun Xu , Fengyu Wang , Yimeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has gained significant attention with the advances in machine learning. Most semantic communication works focus on either task execution or data reconstruction, with some recent works combining the two. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Avinash Kankari , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Generative semantic communication (SemCom) harnesses pretrained generative priors to improve the perceptual quality of wireless image transmission. Existing generative SemCom receivers, however, rely on maximum a posteriori (MAP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang