Generative Channel Knowledge Base With Environmental Information for Joint Source-Channel Coding in Semantic Communications

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Autori principali: Long, Xudong, Chen, Hao, Wang, Dan, Qiu, Chen, Ma, Nan, Xu, Xiaodong, Zhao, Yubin
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author Long, Xudong
Chen, Hao
Wang, Dan
Qiu, Chen
Ma, Nan
Xu, Xiaodong
Zhao, Yubin
author_facet Long, Xudong
Chen, Hao
Wang, Dan
Qiu, Chen
Ma, Nan
Xu, Xiaodong
Zhao, Yubin
contents Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on semantic transmission performance. To address this issue, we propose a generative channel knowledge base (CKB) with environmental information to facilitate joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in semantic communications (SemCom) systems. First, to enable the construction of the CKB, an environment-aware dataset is established by collecting spatial position information, global image features, fine-grained semantic features, and the corresponding channel matrices. A region-of-interest (ROI)-based filtering algorithm is further designed to remove semantic components that are irrelevant to signal propagation. Second, a Transformer-based generative framework is developed to learn the mapping between multidimensional environmental information and channel matrices. A self-attention mechanism is introduced to adaptively fuse heterogeneous features, enabling the construction of a structured CKB. Third, a CKB-driven JSCC SemCom architecture is proposed, where the generated channel knowledge is injected into both of the encoder and decoder to jointly exploit source semantics and channel-environment priors in an end-to-end manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed multidimensional feature fusion method achieves a channel matrix estimation error at the $10^{-3}$ level. Moreover, the CKB-driven JSCC SemCom framework integrated into SemCom systems significantly outperforms existing benchmark schemes in terms of transmission performance.
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spellingShingle Generative Channel Knowledge Base With Environmental Information for Joint Source-Channel Coding in Semantic Communications
Long, Xudong
Chen, Hao
Wang, Dan
Qiu, Chen
Ma, Nan
Xu, Xiaodong
Zhao, Yubin
Information Theory
Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on semantic transmission performance. To address this issue, we propose a generative channel knowledge base (CKB) with environmental information to facilitate joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in semantic communications (SemCom) systems. First, to enable the construction of the CKB, an environment-aware dataset is established by collecting spatial position information, global image features, fine-grained semantic features, and the corresponding channel matrices. A region-of-interest (ROI)-based filtering algorithm is further designed to remove semantic components that are irrelevant to signal propagation. Second, a Transformer-based generative framework is developed to learn the mapping between multidimensional environmental information and channel matrices. A self-attention mechanism is introduced to adaptively fuse heterogeneous features, enabling the construction of a structured CKB. Third, a CKB-driven JSCC SemCom architecture is proposed, where the generated channel knowledge is injected into both of the encoder and decoder to jointly exploit source semantics and channel-environment priors in an end-to-end manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed multidimensional feature fusion method achieves a channel matrix estimation error at the $10^{-3}$ level. Moreover, the CKB-driven JSCC SemCom framework integrated into SemCom systems significantly outperforms existing benchmark schemes in terms of transmission performance.
title Generative Channel Knowledge Base With Environmental Information for Joint Source-Channel Coding in Semantic Communications
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05342