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Semantic communications represent a significant breakthrough with respect to the current communication paradigm, as they focus on recovering the meaning behind the transmitted sequence of symbols, rather than the symbols themselves. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 S. Barbarossa , D. Comminiello , E. Grassucci , F. Pezone , S. Sardellitti , P. Di Lorenzo

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

This manuscript investigates the information-theoretic limits of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), aiming for simultaneous reliable communication and precise channel state estimation. We model such a system with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Aladin Djuhera , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

For cyber-physical systems in the 6G era, semantic communications connecting distributed devices for dynamic control and remote state estimation are required to guarantee application-level performance, not merely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu , Daniel Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we propose a new framework named Communication Optimal Transport (CommOT) for computing the rate distortion (RD) function. This work is motivated by observing the fact that the transition law and the relative entropy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Hao Wu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Bo Bai

Recent research efforts on Semantic Communication (SemCom) have mostly considered accuracy as a main problem for optimizing goal-oriented communication systems. However, these approaches introduce a paradox: the accuracy of Artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quang-Vinh Do , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Won-Joo Hwang

Recent progress in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has led to a new paradigm of semantic communications. Two salient features of DeepJSCC-based semantic communications are the exploitation of semantic-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

This paper aims to delve into the rate-distortion-complexity trade-offs of modern neural video coding. Recent years have witnessed much research effort being focused on exploring the full potential of neural video coding. Conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Yi-Hsin Chen , Kuan-Wei Ho , Martin Benjak , Jörn Ostermann , Wen-Hsiao Peng

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

Digital and analog semantic communications (SemCom) face inherent limitations such as data security concerns in analog SemCom, as well as leveling-off and cliff-edge effects in digital SemCom. In order to overcome these challenges, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Zhu Han , Khaled B. Letaief

We establish the randomized distributed function computation (RDFC) framework, in which a sender transmits just enough information for a receiver to generate a randomized function of the input data. Describing RDFC as a form of semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Onur Günlü

This paper derives an achievable rate-distortion (R-D) region for the state-dependent discrete memoryless multiple access channel (SD-DMMAC), where the generalized feedback and causal side information are present at encoders, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

In this work, a self-attention based conditional generative adversarial network (SA-cGAN) framework for the sixth generation (6G) semantic communication system is proposed, explicitly designed to balance the trade-off between distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Faizan Shafi , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sridhar Iyer

Non-ideal communication links, especially delays, critically affect fast networked controls in power systems, such as the wide-area damping control (WADC). Traditionally, a delay estimation and compensation approach is adopted to address…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Kyung-bin Kwon , Lintao Ye , Vijay Gupta , Hao Zhu

Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary. A model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

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

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communication has witnessed a great progress with the development of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL). Although existing semantic communication technologies can effectively reduce errors in semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Yong Xiao , Honggang Zhang