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Recently, semantic communications are envisioned as a key enabler of future 6G networks. Back to Shannon's information theory, the goal of communication has long been to guarantee the correct reception of transmitted messages irrespective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Semantic Communication (SemCom), leveraging its significant advantages in transmission efficiency and reliability, has emerged as a core technology for constructing future intellicise (intelligent and concise) wireless networks. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rui Meng , Song Gao , Bingxuan Xu , Xiaodong Xu , Jianqiao Chen , Nan Ma , Pei Xiao , Ping Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication (SemCom) has the potential to significantly reduce communication delay in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications within vehicular networks (VNs). However, the deployment of vehicular SemCom networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanghe Pan , Yuntao Wang , Shaolong Guo , Chengyu Yin , Ruidong Li , Zhou Su , Yuan Wu

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

Recently proliferated deep learning-based semantic communications (DLSC) focus on how transmitted symbols efficiently convey a desired meaning to the destination. However, the sensitivity of neural models and the openness of wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Minwei Zhang , Sihan Chen , Songtao Wang , Xuefei Zhang , Nan Ma , Shixun Gong , Zhaohui Yang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

Semantic communication (SemCom) systems aim to learn the mapping from low-dimensional semantics to high-dimensional ground-truth. While this is more akin to a "domain translation" problem, existing frameworks typically emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Semantic communications (SemCom), as one of the key technologies for 6G, is shifting networks from bit transmission to semantic information exchange. On this basis, introducing agentic artificial intelligence (AI) with perception, memory,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Haixiao Gao , Mengying Sun , Ruichen Zhang , Yanhan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Nan Ma , Dusit Niyato , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

Semi-quantum protocols that allow some of the users to remain classical are proposed for a large class of problems associated with secure communication and secure multiparty computation. Specifically, first time semi-quantum protocols are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Chitra Shukla , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving security in semantic communication (SemCom) over a wiretap channel, where a legitimate receiver coexists with an eavesdropper experiencing a poorer channel condition. Despite previous efforts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Weixuan Chen , Shuo Shao , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ping Zhang

The primary challenge in autonomous lunar landing missions lies in the unreliable local control system, which has limited capacity to handle high-dynamic conditions, severely affecting landing precision and safety. Recent advancements in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fangzhou Zhao , Yao Sun , Jianglin Lan , Muhammad Ali Imran

The burgeoning generative artificial intelligence technology offers novel insights into the development of semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks. These frameworks hold the potential to address the challenges associated with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Hongyang Du , Yanli Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems. Empowered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, SemCom has achieved significant improvements in transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Shunpu Tang , Yuanyuan Jia , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Jihong Park , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

Semantic communication (SemCom) significantly improves inter-vehicle interactions in intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) within limited wireless spectrum. However, the open nature of wireless communications introduces eavesdropping risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bizhu Wang , Zhiqiang Bian , Yue Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Chen Sun , Wenqi Zhang , Ping Zhang

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen , Xuemin Shen

Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently been considered a promising solution to guarantee high resource utilization and transmission reliability for future wireless networks. Nevertheless, the unique demand for background knowledge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Xiaoqian Li , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communication is a promising technique for emerging wireless applications, which reduces transmission overhead by transmitting only task-relevant features instead of raw data. However, existing methods struggle under extremely low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Peiwen Jiang , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang