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With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on high transmission rate to a new architecture that is based on the intelligent…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for 6G wireless systems by transmitting task-relevant information rather than raw bits, yet existing approaches remain vulnerable to dual sources of uncertainty: semantic…

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In this paper, we delve into the challenge of optimizing joint communication and computation for semantic communication over wireless networks using a probability graph framework. In the considered model, the base station (BS) extracts the…

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Most existing semantic communication systems employ analog modulation, which is incompatible with modern digital communication systems. Although several digital transmission approaches have been proposed to address this issue, an end-to-end…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

Semantic communication (SemCom) redefines wireless communication from reproducing symbols to transmitting task-relevant semantics. However, this AI-native architecture also introduces new vulnerabilities, as semantic failures may arise from…

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With deployment of 6G technology, it is envisioned that competitive edge of wireless networks will be sustained and next decade's communication requirements will be stratified. Also 6G will aim to aid development of a human society which is…

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Semantic communication (SemCom), as a typical paradigm of deep integration between artificial intelligence (AI) and communication technology, significantly improves communication efficiency and resource utilization efficiency. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Zhidi Zhang , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Haixiao Gao , Xiaodong Xu

Semantic communications (SemCom) is a promising paradigm that prioritizes the transmission of task-relevant information, thereby enabling superior communication efficiency over traditional bit-centric systems. However, most existing SemCom…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinbao Li , Jiancheng An , Hao Liu , Lu Gan , Victor C. M. Leung , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

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 communications, which focus on transmitting the semantic meaning of data, have been proposed as a novel paradigm for achieving efficient and relevant communication. Meanwhile, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enhances spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

In recent years, Semantic Communication (SemCom), which aims to achieve efficient and reliable transmission of meaning between agents, has garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. To ensure the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Rui Meng , Dayu Fan , Haixiao Gao , Yifan Yuan , Bizhu Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Chen Dong , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang , 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

This article investigates the exploitation of semantic communications in multi-user networks. We propose a novel heterogeneous semantic and bit multi-user framework for providing flawless, customized, and intelligent information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Semantic communication (SemCom) has received considerable attention for its ability to reduce data transmission size while maintaining task performance. However, existing works mainly focus on analog SemCom with simple channel models, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Chuanhong Liu , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Wanli Ni , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Cell-free wireless communication is envisioned as one of the most promising network architectures, which can achieve stable and uniform communication performance while improving the system energy and spectrum efficiency. The deployment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Zhuoyin Dai , Jingran Xu , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

While semantic communication (SemCom) has recently demonstrated great potential to enhance transmission efficiency and reliability by leveraging machine learning (ML) and knowledge base (KB), there is a lack of mathematical modeling to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuheng Hua , Yao Sun , Kairong Ma , Dusit Niyato , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging paradigm that leverages semantic-level understanding to improve communication efficiency, particularly in resource-constrained scenarios. However, existing SemCom systems often overlook diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xinyi Lin , Peizheng Li , Adnan Aijaz

Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato