Multi-level Reliability Interface for Semantic Communications over Wireless Networks

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Autori principali: Tung, Tze-Yang, Esfahanizadeh, Homa, Du, Jinfeng, Viswanathan, Harish
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Tung, Tze-Yang
Esfahanizadeh, Homa
Du, Jinfeng
Viswanathan, Harish
author_facet Tung, Tze-Yang
Esfahanizadeh, Homa
Du, Jinfeng
Viswanathan, Harish
contents Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional metrics such as block error rate. Previous studies have shown significant improvements achieved through deep learning (DL)-driven JSCC compared to traditional separate source and channel coding. However, JSCC is impractical in existing communication networks, where application and network providers are typically different entities connected over general-purpose TCP/IP links. In this paper, we propose designing the source and channel mappings separately and sequentially via a novel multi-level reliability interface. This conceptual interface enables semi-JSCC at both the learned source and channel mappers and achieves many of the gains observed in existing DL-based JSCC work (which would require a fully joint design between the application and the network), such as lower end-to-end distortion and graceful degradation of distortion with channel quality. We believe this work represents an important step towards realizing semantic communications in wireless networks.
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spellingShingle Multi-level Reliability Interface for Semantic Communications over Wireless Networks
Tung, Tze-Yang
Esfahanizadeh, Homa
Du, Jinfeng
Viswanathan, Harish
Information Theory
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
Signal Processing
Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional metrics such as block error rate. Previous studies have shown significant improvements achieved through deep learning (DL)-driven JSCC compared to traditional separate source and channel coding. However, JSCC is impractical in existing communication networks, where application and network providers are typically different entities connected over general-purpose TCP/IP links. In this paper, we propose designing the source and channel mappings separately and sequentially via a novel multi-level reliability interface. This conceptual interface enables semi-JSCC at both the learned source and channel mappers and achieves many of the gains observed in existing DL-based JSCC work (which would require a fully joint design between the application and the network), such as lower end-to-end distortion and graceful degradation of distortion with channel quality. We believe this work represents an important step towards realizing semantic communications in wireless networks.
title Multi-level Reliability Interface for Semantic Communications over Wireless Networks
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05487