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Semantic communication, notable for ensuring quality of service by jointly optimizing source and channel coding, effectively extracts data semantics, reduces transmission length, and mitigates channel noise. However, most studies overlook…

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With the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), integrating artificial intelligence (AI) on extremely weak embedded devices has garnered significant attention, enabling improved real-time performance and enhanced data privacy.…

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The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabler for next-generation technologies. With high-frequency bands and large-scale antenna arrays, the Rayleigh distance extends, necessitating near-field (NF) models where waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Yinchao Yang , Jingxuan Zhou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we utilize a downlink hybrid Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) framework to support multiple semantic and bit users within the communication network. The hybrid NOMA setup exploits both NOMA and Orthogonal Multiple Access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Leila Musavian

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

Task-Oriented Semantic Communication (TOSC) has been regarded as a promising communication framework, serving for various Artificial Intelligence (AI) task driven applications. The existing TOSC frameworks focus on extracting the full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Liuguo Yin , Wei Zhang

Digital task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC) aims to transmit only task-relevant information, significantly reducing communication overhead. Existing ToSC methods typically rely on learned codebooks to encode semantic features and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Chenyuan Feng , Shuai Liu , Hongyang Du , Geyong Min

The advent of massive ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (mURLLC) has introduced a critical class of time- and reliability-sensitive services within next-generation wireless networks. This shift has attracted significant research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) utilizes linear precoding to separate users in the spatial domain and relies on fully treating any residual multi-user interference as noise. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) uses linearly precoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Victor O. K. Li

Degraded broadcast channels (DBC) are a typical multi-user communications scenario. There exist classic transmission methods, such as superposition coding with successive interference cancellation, to achieve the DBC capacity region.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Bin Xia , Wenjun Zhang

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

The emerging field semantic communication is driving the research of end-to-end data transmission. By utilizing the powerful representation ability of deep learning models, learned data transmission schemes have exhibited superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Ke Yang , Kailin Tan , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Traditional communications focus on regular and orthogonal signal waveforms for simplified signal processing and improved spectral efficiency. In contrast, the next-generation communications would aim for irregular and non-orthogonal signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Tongyang Xu , Shuangyang Li , Jinhong Yuan

Recent advances in deep learning have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems using methods that employ the nonlinear property of neural networks. These techniques, we call neural joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware speech-to-text transmission system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

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

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Token communications (TokCom) is an emerging generative semantic communication concept that reduces transmission rates by using context and multimodal large language model (MLLM)-based token processing, with tokens serving as universal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Li Qiao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Zhen Gao , Robert Schober , Deniz Gündüz

Semantic communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm in next-generation communication systems, leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to extract and transmit semantic representations for efficient information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhiyuan Xi , Kun Zhu , Yuanyuan Xu

Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan