SCSC: A Novel Standards-Compatible Semantic Communication Framework for Image Transmission
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| author | Han, Xue Wu, Yongpeng Gao, Zhen Feng, Biqian Shi, Yuxuan Gündüz, Deniz Zhang, Wenjun |
| author_facet | Han, Xue Wu, Yongpeng Gao, Zhen Feng, Biqian Shi, Yuxuan Gündüz, Deniz Zhang, Wenjun |
| contents | Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the transmission of images over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. Different from the existing end-to-end AI-based DeepJSCC schemes, our framework consists of learnable modules that enable communication using conventional separate source and channel codes (SSCC), which makes it amenable for easy deployment on legacy systems. Specifically, the learnable modules involve a preprocessing-empowered network (PPEN) for preserving essential semantic information, and a precoder \& combiner-enhanced network (PCEN) for efficient transmission over a resource-constrained MIMO channel. We treat existing compression and channel coding modules as non-trainable blocks. Since the parameters of these modules are non-differentiable, we employ a proxy network that mimics their operations when training the learnable modules. Numerical results demonstrate that our scheme can save more than 29\% of the channel bandwidth, and requires lower complexity compared to the constrained baselines. We also show its generalization capability to unseen datasets and tasks through extensive experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | SCSC: A Novel Standards-Compatible Semantic Communication Framework for Image Transmission Han, Xue Wu, Yongpeng Gao, Zhen Feng, Biqian Shi, Yuxuan Gündüz, Deniz Zhang, Wenjun Information Theory Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the transmission of images over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. Different from the existing end-to-end AI-based DeepJSCC schemes, our framework consists of learnable modules that enable communication using conventional separate source and channel codes (SSCC), which makes it amenable for easy deployment on legacy systems. Specifically, the learnable modules involve a preprocessing-empowered network (PPEN) for preserving essential semantic information, and a precoder \& combiner-enhanced network (PCEN) for efficient transmission over a resource-constrained MIMO channel. We treat existing compression and channel coding modules as non-trainable blocks. Since the parameters of these modules are non-differentiable, we employ a proxy network that mimics their operations when training the learnable modules. Numerical results demonstrate that our scheme can save more than 29\% of the channel bandwidth, and requires lower complexity compared to the constrained baselines. We also show its generalization capability to unseen datasets and tasks through extensive experiments. |
| title | SCSC: A Novel Standards-Compatible Semantic Communication Framework for Image Transmission |
| topic | Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02738 |