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The last seventy years have witnessed the transition of communication from Shannon's theoretical concept to current high-efficient practical systems. Classical communication systems address the capability-deficiency issue mainly by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Kai Niu , Jincheng Dai , Shengshi Yao , Sixian Wang , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin , Ping Zhang

While semantic communications have shown the potential in the case of single-modal single-users, its applications to the multi-user scenario remain limited. In this paper, we investigate deep learning (DL) based multi-user semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xingrun Yan , Shiyuan Zuo , Yifeng Lyu , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

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

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

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

Recently, semantic communication has been investigated to boost the performance of end-to-end image transmission systems. However, existing semantic approaches are generally based on deep learning and belong to lossy transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning for effective task execution, but differing latent representations in AI-native devices can cause semantic mismatches that hinder mutual understanding. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Giuseppe Di Poce , Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

With the exponential surge in traffic data and the pressing need for ultra-low latency in emerging intelligence applications, it is envisioned that 6G networks will demand disruptive communication technologies to foster ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Youlong Wu , Yuanmin Shi , Shuai Ma , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication focuses on conveying the task-relevant meaning rather than exact bitwise recovery. For image transmission with a generative receiver, relying only on text descriptions can be insufficient to preserve instance-specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuesong Wang , Xinyan Xie , Mo Li , Zhaoqian Liu

This paper develops an edge-device collaborative Generative Semantic Communications (Gen SemCom) framework leveraging pre-trained Multi-modal/Vision Language Models (M/VLMs) for ultra-low-rate semantic communication via textual prompts. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mengmeng Ren , Li Qiao , Long Yang , Zhen Gao , Jian Chen , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli , Mehdi Bennis

The goal of semantic communication is to surpass optimal Shannon's criterion regarding a notable problem for future communication which lies in the integration of collaborative efforts between the intelligence of the transmission source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinchao Zhong , Sean Longyu Ma , Hong-fu Chou , Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for future wireless networks by prioritizing task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving efficiency. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuanyuan Jia , Junyu Pan , Shuo Shao , Jincheng Dai , Meixia Tao , Ping Zhang

To achieve continuous massive data transmission with significantly reduced data payload, the users can adopt semantic communication techniques to compress the redundant information by transmitting semantic features instead. However, current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Youcheng Zeng , Xinxin He , Xu Chen , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Yijun Guo , Jianjun Hao

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

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

This paper investigates semantic communications (SemComs) for multi-satellite cooperative massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission, where multiple massive-MIMO satellites jointly serve a common set of multi-antenna user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yafei Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Yiming Zhu , Vu Nguyen Ha , Rui Ding , Wenjin Wang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Deep learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless networks, offering superior transmission efficiency by extracting and conveying task-relevant semantic latent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhiyuan Xi , Kun Zhu

In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

The problem of goal-oriented semantic filtering and timely source coding in multiuser communication systems is considered here. We study a distributed monitoring system in which multiple information sources, each observing a physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris