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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

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

In this paper, we propose an impartial simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-assisted cooperation mechanism for a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink scenario. Specifically, both a cell-center user and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Weiyu Chen , Haiyang Ding , Shilian Wang , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Fengkui Gong

This paper proposes a novel Semantic Communication (SemCom) framework for real-time adaptive-bitrate video streaming by integrating Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) within the FFmpeg techniques. This solution addresses the challenges of high…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zijiang Yan , Jianhua Pei , Hongda Wu , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks. However, its typical end-to-end joint source--channel coding (JSCC) architecture also raises serious privacy concerns. To guide future secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin Shen

In this thesis, we study performance analysis and resource allocation designs for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in wireless communication systems. In contrast to conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes, NOMA allows…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Zhiqiang Wei

Point cloud, as a 3D representation, is widely used in autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). However, traditional communication systems think that the point cloud's semantic information is irrelevant to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

This work introduces a new perspective for physical media sharing in multiuser communication by jointly considering (i) the meaning of the transmitted message and (ii) its function at the end user. Specifically, we have defined a scenario…

We propose and validate a novel optical semantic transmission scheme using multimode fiber (MMF). By leveraging the frequency sensitivity of intermodal dispersion in MMFs, we achieve high-dimensional semantic encoding and decoding in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Zheng Gao , Ting Jiang , Mingming Zhang , Hao Wu , Ming Tang

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology aiming to surpass the Shannon limit. Traditional SC strategies often minimize signal distortion between the original and reconstructed data, neglecting perceptual quality, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Rui Li , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Semantic communications focus on the transmission of semantic features. In this letter, we consider a task-oriented multi-user semantic communication system for multimodal data transmission. Particularly, partial users transmit images while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Multiuser, Multiple Input, Single Output (MU-MISO) systems are proving to be indispensable in the next generation wireless networks such as 5G and 6G. The spatial diversity of MISO systems have been leveraged in physical layer designs in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Ramkumar Raghu , Mahadesh Panju , Vinod Sharma

In this paper, we present a multi-user resource allocation framework using fragmented-spectrum synchronous OFDM-CDMA modulation over a frequency-selective fading channel. In particular, given pre-existing communications in the spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Farhad Akhoundi , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Omid Poursaeed , Jawad A. Salehi

This paper develops an edge-device collaborative Generative Semantic Communications (Gen SemCom) framework leveraging pre-trained Multi-modal/Vision Language Models (M/VLMs) for ultra-low-rate semantic communication via textual prompts. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mengmeng Ren , Li Qiao , Long Yang , Zhen Gao , Jian Chen , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

Optical wireless communication (OWC) has the potential to provide high communication speeds that support the massive use of the Internet that is expected in the near future. In OWC, optical access points (APs) are deployed on the celling to…

Opportunistic Spatial Orthogonalization (OSO) is a cognitive radio scheme that allows the existence of secondary users and hence increases the system throughput, even if the primary user occupies all the frequency bands all the time.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-29 Cong Shen , Michael P. Fitz

Coherent states have been increasingly considered in optical quantum communications (OQCs). With the inherent non-orthogonality of coherent states, non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) naturally lends itself to the implementation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhichao Dong , Xiaolin Zhou , Yongkang Chen , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Xin Wang

With the advent of the 6G mobile communication network era, the existing non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) technology faces the challenge of high successive interference in multi-user scenarios, which limits its ability to support more…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zihan Li , Youzhi Li , Chenyu Liuand Yuhao Lian

Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Yifeng Lyu , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

Multi-group multicast (MGM) is an increasingly important form of multi-user wireless communications with several potential applications, such as video streaming, federated learning, safety-critical vehicular communications, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Xinze Lyu , Sundar Aditya , Bruno Clerckx