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Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications

Gunduz, D; Qin, Z; Aguerri, IE; Dhillon, HS; Yang, Z; Yener, A; Wong, KK; (2023) Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 41 (1) pp. 5-41. 10.1109/JSAC.2022.3223408. Green open access

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Abstract

Communication systems to date primarily aim at reliably communicating bit sequences. Such an approach provides efficient engineering designs that are agnostic to the meanings of the messages or to the goal that the message exchange aims to achieve. Next generation systems, however, can be potentially enriched by folding message semantics and goals of communication into their design. Further, these systems can be made cognizant of the context in which communication exchange takes place, thereby providing avenues for novel design insights. This tutorial summarizes the efforts to date, starting from its early adaptations, semantic-aware and task-oriented communications, covering the foundations, algorithms and potential implementations. The focus is on approaches that utilize information theory to provide the foundations, as well as the significant role of learning in semantics and task-aware communications.

Type: Article
Title: Beyond Transmitting Bits: Context, Semantics, and Task-Oriented Communications
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2022.3223408
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2022.3223408
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Semantics, Task analysis, Syntactics, Receivers, Symbols, Reliability theory, Communication networks
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162483
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