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 …

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 …

Beyond transmitting bits: Context, semantics, and task-oriented communications

D Gündüz, Z Qin, IE Aguerri, HS Dhillon… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication systems to date primarily aim at reliably communicating bit sequences.
Such an approach provides efficient engineering designs that are agnostic to the meanings …

Semantic communications: Principles and challenges

Z Qin, X Tao, J Lu, W Tong, GY Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.01389, 2021 - arxiv.org
Semantic communication, regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm,
aims at the successful transmission of semantic information conveyed by the source rather …

Task-oriented multi-user semantic communications

H Xie, Z Qin, X Tao, KB Letaief - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

6G networks: Beyond Shannon towards semantic and goal-oriented communications

EC Strinati, S Barbarossa - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented
aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system …

Deep learning enabled semantic communication systems

H Xie, Z Qin, GY Li, BH Juang - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep learned enabled end-to-end communication systems have been developed
to merge all physical layer blocks in the traditional communication systems, which make joint …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Toward wisdom-evolutionary and primitive-concise 6G: A new paradigm of semantic communication networks

P Zhang, W Xu, H Gao, K Niu, X Xu, X Qin, C Yuan… - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The sixth generation (6G) mobile networks will reshape the world by offering instant,
efficient, and intelligent hyper-connectivity, as envisioned by the previously proposed …

Sionna: An open-source library for next-generation physical layer research

J Hoydis, S Cammerer, FA Aoudia, A Vem… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on
TensorFlow. It enables the rapid prototyping of complex communication system architectures …