Improving Channel Resilience for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications: A Unified Information Bottleneck Approach

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Main Authors: Lyu, Shuai, Sun, Yao, Guo, Linke, Yuan, Xiaoyong, Fang, Fang, Zhang, Lan, Wang, Xianbin
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author Lyu, Shuai
Sun, Yao
Guo, Linke
Yuan, Xiaoyong
Fang, Fang
Zhang, Lan
Wang, Xianbin
author_facet Lyu, Shuai
Sun, Yao
Guo, Linke
Yuan, Xiaoyong
Fang, Fang
Zhang, Lan
Wang, Xianbin
contents Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to unavoidable channel variations from time and frequency-selective fading, semantically sensitive feature units could be more susceptible to erroneous inference if corrupted by dynamic channels. Therefore, this letter introduces a unified channel-resilient TSC framework via information bottleneck. This framework complements existing TSC approaches by controlling information flow to capture fine-grained feature-level semantic robustness. Experiments on a case study for real-time subchannel allocation validate the framework's effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Improving Channel Resilience for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications: A Unified Information Bottleneck Approach
Lyu, Shuai
Sun, Yao
Guo, Linke
Yuan, Xiaoyong
Fang, Fang
Zhang, Lan
Wang, Xianbin
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to unavoidable channel variations from time and frequency-selective fading, semantically sensitive feature units could be more susceptible to erroneous inference if corrupted by dynamic channels. Therefore, this letter introduces a unified channel-resilient TSC framework via information bottleneck. This framework complements existing TSC approaches by controlling information flow to capture fine-grained feature-level semantic robustness. Experiments on a case study for real-time subchannel allocation validate the framework's effectiveness.
title Improving Channel Resilience for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications: A Unified Information Bottleneck Approach
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00135