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Rethinking Modern Communication from Semantic Coding to Semantic Communication
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- 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 characterizes a new kind of semantics-aware communication framework, incorporating both the semantic encoding and the semantic communication problem. After analyzing the underlying defects of existing semantics-aware techniques, we establish a confidence-based distillation mechanism for the joint semantics-noise coding (JSNC) problem and a reinforcement learning (RL)-powered semantic communication paradigm that endows a system the ability to convey the semantics instead of pursuing the bit level accuracy. On top of these technical contributions, this work provides a new insight to understand how the semantics are processed and represented in a semantics-aware coding and communication system, and verifies the significant benefits of doing so. Targeted on the next generation's semantics-aware communication, some critical concerns and open challenges such as the information overhead, semantic security and implementation cost are also discussed and envisioned.<br />Comment: Accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications
- Subjects :
- Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2110.08496
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.013.2100642