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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

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Semantic communication (SemComm) has emerged as new paradigm shifts.Most existing SemComm systems transmit continuously distributed signals in analog fashion.However, the analog paradigm is not compatible with current digital communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-12 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Suzhi Bi , Yuan Wu , Liping Qian

While Large Language Models (LLMs) become ever more dominant, classic pre-trained word embeddings sustain their relevance through computational efficiency and nuanced linguistic interpretation. Drawing from recent studies demonstrating that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Haoran Zhao , Jake Ryland Williams

This work designs a novel semantic communication (SemCom) framework for the next-generation wireless network to tackle the challenges of unnecessary transmission of vast amounts that cause high bandwidth consumption, more latency, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Avi Deb Raha , Md. Shirajum Munir , Apurba Adhikary , Yu Qiao , Choong Seon Hong

Deep learning driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image or video transmission, also called DeepJSCC, has been a topic of interest recently with very promising results. The idea is to map similar source samples to nearby…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tze-Yang Tung , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we propose a class of high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding methods that can closely adapt to the source distribution under the nonlinear transform, it can be collected under the name nonlinear transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Semantic communication (SemCom) is accelerating its momentum to catch up with the massive increase in users' demands in both quantity and quality, with the assistance of advanced deep learning (DL) techniques. Specifically, SemCom can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Loc X. Nguyen , Phuong-Nam Tran , Trung Thanh Pham , Avi Deb Raha , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Although the semantic communication with joint semantic-channel coding design has shown promising performance in transmitting data of different modalities over physical layer channels, the synchronization and packet-level forward error…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Yun Tian , Jingkai Ying , Zhijin Qin , Ye Jin , Xiaoming Tao

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

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

Semantic communication, as a revolutionary communication architecture, is considered a promising novel communication paradigm. Unlike traditional symbol-based error-free communication systems, semantic-based visual communication systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

This paper jointly investigates user association (UA), mode selection (MS), and bandwidth allocation (BA) problems in a novel and practical next-generation cellular network where two modes of semantic communication (SemCom) and conventional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Lan Zhang , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communication represents a promising roadmap toward achieving end-to-end communication with reduced communication overhead and an enhanced user experience. The integration of semantic concepts with wireless communications presents…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva

Multiple access (MA) design is investigated for facilitating the coexistence of the emerging semantic transmission and the conventional bit-based transmission in future networks. The semantic rate is considered for measuring the performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The mutual information of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems, sometimes called the BICM capacity, is investigated at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), i.e., in the wideband regime. A new linear transform that depends on bits'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Erik Agrell , Alex Alvarado

This paper investigates semantic communications (SemComs) for multi-satellite cooperative massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, where multiple massive-MIMO satellites jointly serve a common set of multi-antenna user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yafei Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Yiming Zhu , Vu Nguyen Ha , Rui Ding , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Compared with the current Shannon's Classical Information Theory (CIT) paradigm, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently attracted more attention, since it aims to transmit the meaning of information rather than bit-by-bit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Bingxuan Xu , Rui Meng , Yue Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Chen Dong , Hao Sun