A highly reliable encoding and decoding communication framework based on semantic information

Increasing research has focused on semantic communication, the goal of which is to convey accurately the meaning instead of transmitting symbols from the sender to the receiver. In this paper, we design a novel encoding and decoding semantic communication framework, which adopts the semantic informa...

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Published in:Digital communications and networks 2024-06, Vol.10 (3), p.509-518
Main Authors: Zhang, Yichi, Zhao, Haitao, Cao, Kuo, Zhou, Li, Wang, Zhe, Liu, Yueling, Wei, Jibo
Format: Article
Language:English
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Context-based decoding method
Semantic encoding method
Semantic information
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Summary:Increasing research has focused on semantic communication, the goal of which is to convey accurately the meaning instead of transmitting symbols from the sender to the receiver. In this paper, we design a novel encoding and decoding semantic communication framework, which adopts the semantic information and the contextual correlations between items to optimize the performance of a communication system over various channels. On the sender side, the average semantic loss caused by the wrong detection is defined, and a semantic source encoding strategy is developed to minimize the average semantic loss. To further improve communication reliability, a decoding strategy that utilizes the semantic and the context information to recover messages is proposed in the receiver. Extensive simulation results validate the superior performance of our strategies over state-of-the-art semantic coding and decoding policies on different communication channels.
ISSN:2352-8648
2352-8648
DOI:10.1016/j.dcan.2023.04.002