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Semantic communications, which focus on transmitting the semantic meaning of data, have been proposed as a novel paradigm for achieving efficient and relevant communication. Meanwhile, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enhances spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

Multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM), a fundamental transmission scheme, promises high throughput and robustness against multipath fading. However, these benefits rely on the efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Xingyu Zhou , Jing Zhang , Chen-Wei Syu , Chao-Kai Wen , Jun Zhang , Shi Jin

M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (MQAM) is a commonly used channel modulation technology in wireless communication systems. To achieve dedicated channel modulation for semantic communication (SemCom), we propose an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Haonan Lu , Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Yiming Liu , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communications focus on prioritizing the understanding of the meaning behind transmitted data and ensuring the successful completion of tasks that motivate the exchange of information. However, when devices rely on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Simone Fiorellino , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Real-world wireless transmitter front-ends exhibit certain nonlinear behavior, e.g., signal clipping by a Power Amplifier (PA). Although many resource allocation solutions do not consider this for simplicity, it leads to inaccurate results…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Siddarth Marwaha , Pawel Kryszkiewicz , Eduard Jorswieck

Recent advances in Image Quality Assessment (IQA) have leveraged Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to generate descriptive explanations. However, despite their strong visual perception modules, these models often fail to reliably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuan Li , Zitang Sun , Yen-Ju Chen , Shin'ya Nishida

The advancement towards 6G technology leverages improvements in aerial-terrestrial networking, where one of the critical challenges is the efficient allocation of transmit power. Although existing studies have shown commendable performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical sensing framework for wideband integrated sensing and communications with uniform planar arrays (UPAs). Leveraging the beam-squint effect inherent in wideband orthogonal frequency-division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jaehong Jo , Jihun Park , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a semantic-aware waveform design framework for AI-native 6G networks that jointly optimizes physical layer resource usage and semantic communication efficiency and robustness, while explicitly accounting for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Nour Hello , Mohamed Amine Hamoura , Francois Rivet , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

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

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

In the evolving landscape of 6G networks, semantic communications are poised to revolutionize data transmission by prioritizing the transmission of semantic meaning over raw data accuracy. This paper presents a Vision Transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Jazib , Zeeshan Alam , Muhmmad Farhan Khan , Muhammad Saad , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

This paper introduces SA-OOSC, a multimodal large language models (MLLM)-distilled semantic communication framework that achieves efficient semantic coding with scenario-aware importance allocations. This approach addresses a critical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Feifan Zhang , Yuyang Du , Yifan Xiang , Xiaoyan Liu , Soung Chang Liew

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in general visual understanding, they frequently falter in fine-grained perception tasks that require identifying tiny objects or discerning subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jilong Zhu , Yang Feng

Satellite-ground semantic communication (SemCom) is expected to play a pivotal role in convergence of communication and AI (ComAI), particularly in enabling intelligent and efficient multi-user data transmission. However, the inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Hui Cao , Rui Meng , Shujun Han , Song Gao , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication is emerging as an effective means of facilitating intelligent and context-aware communication for next-generation communication systems. In this paper, we propose a novel metric called Age of Incorrect Semantics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xue Han , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Shengli Sun

Image Restoration (IR), a classic low-level vision task, has witnessed significant advancements through deep models that effectively model global information. Notably, the emergence of Vision Transformers (ViTs) has further propelled these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Bin Ren , Yawei Li , Jingyun Liang , Rakesh Ranjan , Mengyuan Liu , Rita Cucchiara , Luc Van Gool , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Nicu Sebe

Semantic communication marks a new paradigm shift from bit-wise data transmission to semantic information delivery for the purpose of bandwidth reduction. To more effectively carry out specialized downstream tasks at the receiver end, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yu-Chieh Chao , Yubei Chen , Weiwei Wang , Achintha Wijesinghe , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding