… ments of extremely high data rates and ultra-low latency [5]. Fortunately, semantic
communications [6] (and task-oriented or goal-oriented communications [5], [7], [8]) could enjoy lower …

… The major motive for this change is the need for increased data rate that can be correlated
with increased bandwidth availability in order to accommodate services, such as extended …

… -oriented semantic communication network (TOSCN) and defined it as a QoE model. The
QoE specifically consists of two components, semantic transmission rate score and semantic …

… can support multi-rate transmission for semantic communication. In the … transmission rate,
and transmission quality cannot be guaranteed. In [30], we proposed a predictive and adaptive …

… [19], and speech transmission [20]. … adaptive semantic coding scheme for images, which
realized a visually pleasing and semantically consistent image reconstruction at low bit rates by …

… ratedistortion with perception constraints. We have then treated the semantic communication
… reconstruct visually pleasant and semantically consistent images in the low bit rate regime. …

… approach to semantic communication, which we term contextbased semantic communication.
… The goal of semantic coding is to minimize the bit rate of transmission while preserving the …

… the minimum transmission rate of this goal-oriented communication design is theoretically no
… extended for modelling multi-node semantic communications in distributed edge networks. …

… The ultimate goal is to define semantic data encoding targeted and optimized for given
tasks… performance with a much smaller transmission or storage data rate. These aspects are of …

… semantic communications system. In Section V, we present the semantic communication
system … In Section VI, we evaluate the proposed explainable semantic communication system. …