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The efficient deployment and operation of any wireless communication ecosystem rely on knowledge of the received signal quality over the target coverage area. This knowledge is typically acquired through radio propagation solvers, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Stefanos Bakirtzis , Cagkan Yapar , Marco Fiore , Jie Zhang , Ian Wassell

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

Semantic communications offer promising prospects for enhancing data transmission efficiency. However, existing schemes have predominantly concentrated on point-to-point transmissions. In this paper, we aim to investigate the validity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Anming Dong , Hui Zhao

Deep learning is a potential paradigm changer for the design of wireless communications systems (WCS), from conventional handcrafted schemes based on sophisticated mathematical models with assumptions to autonomous schemes based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Woongsup Lee , Ohyun Jo , Minhoe Kim

We present our vision for a departure from the established way of architecting and assessing communication networks, by incorporating the semantics of information for communications and control in networked systems. We define semantics of…

Intent-based networks that integrate sophisticated machine reasoning technologies will be a cornerstone of future wireless 6G systems. Intent-based communication requires the network to consider the semantics (meanings) and effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Francesco Pezone

When applying deep learning to remote sensing data in archaeological research, a notable obstacle is the limited availability of suitable datasets for training models. The application of transfer learning is frequently employed to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gregory Sech , Paolo Soleni , Wouter B. Verschoof-van der Vaart , Žiga Kokalj , Arianna Traviglia , Marco Fiorucci

Semantic communication is emerging as a key enabler for distributed edge intelligence due to its capability to convey task-relevant meaning. However, achieving communication-efficient training and robust inference over wireless links…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hang Zhao , Hongru Li , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

At the confluence of 6G, deep learning (DL), and natural language processing (NLP), DL-enabled text semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a 6G enabler since it minimizes bandwidth consumption, transmission delay, and power usage.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Tilahun M. Getu , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis

This paper studies task-oriented, otherwise known as goal-oriented, communications, in a setting where a transmitter communicates with multiple receivers, each with its own task to complete on a dataset, e.g., images, available at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

For cyber-physical systems in the 6G era, semantic communications connecting distributed devices for dynamic control and remote state estimation are required to guarantee application-level performance, not merely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu , Daniel Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surge of research activities in this area, the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Achieving artificially intelligent-native wireless networks is necessary for the operation of future 6G applications such as the metaverse. Nonetheless, current communication schemes are, at heart, a mere reconstruction process that lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad

This paper presents an adaptive framework for edge inference based on a dynamically configurable transformer-powered deep joint source channel coding (DJSCC) architecture. Motivated by a practical scenario where a resource constrained edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alessio Devoto , Jary Pomponi , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Semantic communications will play a critical role in enabling goal-oriented services over next-generation wireless systems. However, most prior art in this domain is restricted to specific applications (e.g., text or image), and it does not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah

In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hazem Barka , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis , Md Sahabul Alam , Minh Au

Recent advances in semantic image segmentation have mostly been achieved by training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We show how to improve semantic segmentation through the use of contextual information; specifically, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van dan Hengel , Ian Reid