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Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xue Han , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Biqian Feng , Yuxuan Shi , Deniz Gündüz , Wenjun Zhang

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

With the significant advances in generative AI (GAI) and the proliferation of mobile devices, providing high-quality AI-generated content (AIGC) services via wireless networks is becoming the future direction. However, the primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Runze Cheng , Yao Sun , Lan Zhang , Lei Feng , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and extended reality, efficient transmission of point clouds (PCs) has become increasingly important. In this context, we propose a novel channel-adaptive cross-modal generative semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Qianqian Yang , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

In the era of 6G, with compelling visions of intelligent transportation systems and digital twins, remote surveillance is poised to become a ubiquitous practice. Substantial data volume and frequent updates present challenges in wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yanli Yuan , Wenchao Jiang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Merouane Debbah

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

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

Conventional communication systems, including both separation-based coding and AI-driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC), are largely guided by Shannon's rate-distortion theory. However, relying on generic distortion metrics fails to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Guo Lu , Li Song , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) offers a promising avenue for enhancing transmission efficiency by jointly incorporating source and channel statistics into the system design. A key advancement in this area is the deep joint source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Deniz Gündüz

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

Generative joint source-channel coding (GJSCC) has emerged as a new Deep JSCC paradigm for achieving high-fidelity and robust image transmission under extreme wireless channel conditions, such as ultra-low bandwidth and low signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Kailin Tan , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for semantic communication, delivering significant performance gains over conventional separate coding schemes. However, existing JSCC frameworks remain vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Changyuan Zhao , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dong In Kim , Ping Zhang

Generative foundation AI models have recently shown great success in synthesizing natural signals with high perceptual quality using only textual prompts and conditioning signals to guide the generation process. This enables semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Li Qiao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Zhen Gao , Chuan Heng Foh , Pei Xiao , Mehdi Bennis

In next-generation wireless networks, supporting real-time applications such as augmented reality, autonomous driving, and immersive Metaverse services demands stringent constraints on bandwidth, latency, and reliability. Existing semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangyuan Liu , Yinqiu Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Abbas Jamalipour

In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-aided image communication framework for supporting the compatibility with practical separation-based coding architectures. Particularly, the deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Merouane Debbah , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

To enable critical applications such as remote diagnostics, image classification must be guaranteed under bandwidth constraints and unreliable wireless channels through joint source and channel coding (JSCC) design. However, most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Wenchao Wu , Min Qiu , Yansha Deng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper investigates a key challenge faced by joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in digital semantic communication (SemCom): the incompatibility between existing JSCC schemes that yield continuous encoded representations and digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yujie Zhou , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi

Deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) methods have achieved remarkable success in wireless image transmission. However, these methods either focus on conventional distortion metrics that do not necessarily yield high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ming Ye , Kui Cai , Cunhua Pan , Zhen Mei , Wanting Yang , Chunguo Li

Semantic communication (SemCom) presents a transformative paradigm for alleviating bandwidth limitations in mobile networks by transmitting task-relevant semantic features instead of raw data bits. While SemCom systems utilizing diffusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li