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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for future wireless networks by prioritizing task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving efficiency. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuanyuan Jia , Junyu Pan , Shuo Shao , Jincheng Dai , Meixia Tao , Ping Zhang

Despite the fact that Shannon and Weaver's Mathematical Theory of Communication was published over 70 years ago, all communication systems continue to operate at the first of three levels defined in this theory: the technical level. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

With the proliferation of edge computing, efficient AI inference on edge devices has become essential for intelligent applications such as autonomous vehicles and VR/AR. In this context, we address the problem of efficient remote object…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Dongyu Wei , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Hao Yin , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communications provide significant performance gains over traditional communications by transmitting task-relevant semantic features through wireless channels. However, most existing studies rely on end-to-end (E2E) training of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Joohyuk Park , Yongjeong Oh , Yongjune Kim , Yo-Seb Jeon

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems adopt large antenna arrays to ensure adequate receive signal power. However, adjusting the narrow beams of these antenna arrays typically incurs high beam training overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

Semantic communication has gained significant attention from researchers as a promising technique to replace conventional communication in the next generation of communication systems, primarily due to its ability to reduce communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Ye Lin Tun , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chaoning Zhang , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored for the efficient transmission of images, text, and speech in recent years. In contrast to traditional wireless communication methods that focus on the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianxiao Han , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Shibo He , Zhaoyang Zhang

A radical paradigm shift of wireless networks from ``connected things'' to ``connected intelligence'' undergoes, which coincides with the Shanno and Weaver's envisions: Communications will transform from the technical level to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yang Yang , Caili Guo , Fangfang Liu , Chuanhong Liu , Lunan Sun , Qizheng Sun , Jiujiu Chen

A comprehensive study on the applications of denoising diffusion models for wireless systems is provided. The article highlights the capabilities of diffusion models in learning complicated signal distributions, modeling wireless channels,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

The growing demands of artificial intelligence and immersive media require communication beyond bit-level accuracy to meaning awareness. Conventional optical systems that focused on syntactic precision suffer significant inefficiencies.…

Current learning-based wireless methods struggle with generalization due to the fragmented processing of communication and sensing data. WiFo-MiSAC addresses this as a task-agnostic foundation model that tokenizes heterogeneous signals into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xuanyu Liu , Shijian Gao , Boxun Liu , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

While initial applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in wireless communications over the past decade have demonstrated considerable potential using specialized models for targeted communication tasks, the revolutionary demands of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Kunrui Cao , Xingwang Li , Zhao Chen , Chau Yuen

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

In this paper, we design a new class of high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding methods to achieve end-to-end video transmission over wireless channels. The proposed methods exploit nonlinear transform and conditional coding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Zijian Liang , Kai Niu , Zhongwei Si , Chao Dong , Xiaoqi Qin , Ping Zhang

The emergence of multimodal foundation models has revolutionized learning paradigms by enabling joint understanding across diverse data types. In the context of next-generation wireless networks, integrating sensing and communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mohammad Farzanullah , Han Zhang , Akram Bin Sediq , Ali Afana , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, the existing semantic communication frameworks do not involve inference and error correction, which limits the achievable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Xinyuan Zhang , Qihui Wu , Xianfu Lei , Rose Qingyang Hu

Most current Deep Learning-based Semantic Communication (DeepSC) systems are designed and trained exclusively for particular single-channel conditions, which restricts their adaptability and overall bandwidth utilization. To address this,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yuna Yan , Lixin Li , Xin Zhang , Wensheng Lin , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han