Semantics-empowered communications: A tutorial-cum-survey

Z Lu, R Li, K Lu, X Chen, E Hossain… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Along with the springing up of the semantics-empowered communication (SemCom)
research, it is now witnessing an unprecedentedly growing interest towards a wide range of …

Semantic communications for future internet: Fundamentals, applications, and challenges

W Yang, H Du, ZQ Liew, WYB Lim… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing demand for intelligent services, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless
networks will shift from a traditional architecture that focuses solely on a high transmission …

Less data, more knowledge: Building next generation semantic communication networks

C Chaccour, W Saad, M Debbah… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially
transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a …

A theory of semantic communication

Y Shao, Q Cao, D Gündüz - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic communication is an emerging research area that has gained a wide range of
attention recently. Despite this growing interest, there remains a notable absence of a …

From semantic communication to semantic-aware networking: Model, architecture, and open problems

G Shi, Y Xiao, Y Li, X Xie - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory,
which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of …

What is semantic communication? A view on conveying meaning in the era of machine intelligence

Q Lan, D Wen, Z Zhang, Q Zeng, X Chen… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the 1940s, Claude Shannon developed the information theory focusing on quantifying the
maximum data rate that can be supported by a communication channel. Guided by this …

Semantic communications: Overview, open issues, and future research directions

X Luo, HH Chen, Q Guo - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the deployment of the fifth generation (5G) in many countries, people start to think about
what the next-generation of wireless communications will be. The current communication …

Rethinking modern communication from semantic coding to semantic communication

K Lu, Q Zhou, R Li, Z Zhao, X Chen… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Semantic communication meets edge intelligence

W Yang, ZQ Liew, WYB Lim, Z Xiong… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of emerging applications, such as autonomous transportation systems, is
expected to result in an explosive growth in mobile data traffic. As the available spectrum …

Reinforcement learning-powered semantic communication via semantic similarity

K Lu, R Li, X Chen, Z Zhao, H Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12121, 2021 - arxiv.org
We introduce a new semantic communication mechanism-SemanticRL, whose key idea is to
preserve the semantic information instead of strictly securing the bit-level precision. Unlike …