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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

Integrating Large AI Models (LAMs) into 6G mobile networks is a key enabler of the AI-Native Air Interface (AI-AI), where protocol intelligence must scale beyond handcrafted logic. This paper presents, to our knowledge, the first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ziming Liu , Bryan Liu , Alvaro Valcarce , Xiaoli Chu

Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haotian Wang , Dan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Chuan Huang , Hao Chen , Nan Ma

Foundation models have reshaped AI by unifying fragmented architectures into scalable backbones with multimodal reasoning and contextual adaptation. In parallel, the long-standing notion of AI agents, defined by the sensing-decision-action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sicong Liu , Weiye Wu , Xiangrui Xu , Teng Li , Bowen Pang , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Efficient information exchange and reliable contextual reasoning are essential for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks. Conventional communication schemes often incur significant transmission overhead and latency, while existing trajectory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lin Zhu , Kezhi Wang , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

As Radio Access Networks (RAN) evolve toward AI-native architectures, intelligent modules such as xApps and rApps are expected to make increasingly autonomous decisions across scheduling, mobility, and resource management domains. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sebastian Barros

In the ensuing ultra-dense and diverse environment in future \ac{6G} communication networks, it will be critical to optimize network resources via mechanisms that recognize and cater to the diversity, density, and dynamicity of system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mayukh Roy Chowdhury , Eman Hammad , Lauri Loven , Susanna Pirttikangas , Aloizio P da Silva , Walid Saad

Future networking systems are envisioned to become part of an agentic AI-native ecosystem in which a vast number of heterogeneous and specialized AI agents cooperate seamlessly to fulfill complex user requirements in real time. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yong Xiao , Haoran Zhou , Yujie Zhou , Marwan Krunz

The confluence of 5G and AI is transforming wireless networks to deliver diverse services at the Edge, driving towards a vision of pervasive distributed intelligence. Future 6G networks will need to deliver quality of experience through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shilpa Talwar , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Feng Xue , Geng Wu , Vida Ilderem

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

Driven by the interplay among artificial intelligence, digital twin, and wireless networks, 6G is envisaged to go beyond data-centric services to provide intelligent and immersive experiences. To efficiently support intelligent tasks with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Dingzhu Wen , Youlong Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled B. Letaief

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…

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This paper investigates a range of cutting-edge technologies and architectural innovations aimed at simplifying network operations, reducing operational expenditure (OpEx), and enabling the deployment of new service models. The focus is on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kapal Dev , Sunder Ali Khowaja , Keshav Singh , Engin Zeydan , Merouane Debbah

This review critically distinguishes between AI Agents and Agentic AI, offering a structured, conceptual taxonomy, application mapping, and analysis of opportunities and challenges to clarify their divergent design philosophies and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

The rapid development of multimodal AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has greatly enhanced real-time interaction, decision-making, and collaborative tasks. However, in wireless multi-agent scenarios, limited bandwidth poses significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangyuan Liu , Yinqiu Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Sumei Sun , Abbas Jamalipour

6G network complexity necessitates high levels of autonomy, yet current intent-based systems struggle with ambiguous or incomplete human requests. This paper introduces an agent-based, intent-driven end-to-end (E2E) orchestration framework…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kostis Trantzas , Besiana Agko , Christos Tranoris , Irene Denazi

Learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the transmission efficiency of wireless networks. However, existing methods typically rely on extensive end-to-end training, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Jihong Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Deniz Gunduz

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced natural language understanding and content generation. However, these models primarily operate in disembodied digital environments and lack interaction with the…

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