Semantic communications, which aim to effectively convey the meaning of messages (such as text and images) rather than transmitting the exact messages themselves, have garnered widespread attention from industry and a...
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Semantic communications, which aim to effectively convey the meaning of messages (such as text and images) rather than transmitting the exact messages themselves, have garnered widespread attention from industry and academia. A suitable joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme is crucial for semantic communication systems, as it can significantly improve system performance, such as communication reliability. Current research efforts primarily focus on employing various deep neural network (DNN) models, particularly the Transformer model, to design JSCC schemes. However, existing Transformer-based JSCC schemes usually exhibit a considerable number of model parameters and computational demands, limiting their real-world applicability. To address this challenge, we propose a novel DNN model based on DeLighT, a deep and lightweight variant of the standard Transformer, using a text semantic communication system (TSC) as an example. This proposed model enables a lightweight JSCC scheme for the TSC system. Through simulation results, we demonstrate that the proposed JSCC scheme achieves comparable or better communication reliability than the Transformer-based JSCC scheme while requiring significantly fewer parameters and smaller runtime.
The information-theoretic notion of energy efficiency is studied in the context of various joint source-channel coding problems. The minimum transmission energy E(D) required to communicate a source over a noisy chann...
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The information-theoretic notion of energy efficiency is studied in the context of various joint source-channel coding problems. The minimum transmission energy E(D) required to communicate a source over a noisy channel so that it can be reconstructed within a target distortion D is analyzed. Unlike the traditional joint source-channel coding formalisms, no restrictions are imposed on the number of channel uses per source sample. For single-source memoryless point-to-point channels, E(D) is shown to be equal to the product of the minimum energy per bit E-bmin of the channel and the rate-distortion function R(D) of the source, regardless of whether channel output feedback is available at the transmitter. The primary focus is on Gaussian sources and channels affected by additive white Gaussian noise under quadratic distortion criteria, with or without perfect channel output feedback. In particular, for two correlated Gaussian sources communicated over a Gaussian multiple-access channel, inner and outer bounds on the energy-distortion region are obtained, which coincide in special cases. For symmetric channels, the difference between the upper and lower bounds on energy is shown to be at most a constant even when the lower bound goes to infinity as D -> 0. It is also shown that simple uncoded transmission schemes perform better than the separation-based schemes in many different regimes, both with and without feedback.
We derive the optimal second-order rates in joint source-channel coding when the channel is a general discrete memoryless channel and the source is an irreducible and ergodic Markov process. In contrast, previous stud...
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We derive the optimal second-order rates in joint source-channel coding when the channel is a general discrete memoryless channel and the source is an irreducible and ergodic Markov process. In contrast, previous studies solved it only when the channel satisfies a certain unique-variance condition and the source is subject to an independent and identical distribution. We also compare the jointsource-channel scheme with the separation scheme in the second-order regime, while a previous study made a notable comparison with numerical calculation. To discuss these two topics, we introduce two kinds of new distribution families, switched Gaussian convolution distribution and *-product distribution, which are defined by modifying the Gaussian distribution.
Shannon's capacity and rate-distortion function, combined with the separation principle, provide tight bounds for the minimum possible distortion in joint source-channel coding. These bounds, however, are usually ...
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Shannon's capacity and rate-distortion function, combined with the separation principle, provide tight bounds for the minimum possible distortion in joint source-channel coding. These bounds, however, are usually achievable only in the limit of a large block length. In their 1973 paper, Ziv and Zakai introduced a family of alternative capacity and rate-distortion functions, based on functionals satisfying the data-processing inequality, which potentially give tighter bounds for systems with a small block length. There is a considerable freedom as to how to choose those functionals, and the ways of finding the best possible functionals yielding the best bounds for a given source-channel combination are not specified. We examine recently conjectured high SNR asymptotic expressions for the Ziv-Zakai bounds, based on the Renyi-divergence functional. We derive nonasymptotic bounds on the Ziv-Zakai-Renyi rate-distortion function and capacity for a broad class of sources and additive noise channels, which hold for arbitrary SNR and prove the conjectured asymptotic expressions in the limit of a small distortion/high SNR. The results lead to new bounds on the best achievable distortion in finite dimensional joint source-channel coding. Examples are presented where the new bounds achieve significant improvement upon Shannon's original bounds.
A wireless technology is required to realize robust transmission of medical images like a radiography image over noisy environment. The use of error correction technique is essential for realizing such a reliable comm...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424441242
A wireless technology is required to realize robust transmission of medical images like a radiography image over noisy environment. The use of error correction technique is essential for realizing such a reliable communication, in which a suitable channelcoding is introduced to correct erroneous bits caused by passing through a noisy channel. However, the use of a channel code decreases its efficiency because redundancy bits are also transmitted with information bits. This paper presents a joint source-channel coding which maintains the channel efficiency during transmission of medical images like a radiography image. As medical images under the test, we use typical radiography images in this paper. The jointcoding technique enjoys correlations between pixels of the radiography image. The results show that the proposed jointcoding provides capability to correcting erroneous bits without increasing the redundancy of the codeword.
We propose a jointsource and channelcoding (JSCC) technique for wireless image transmission that does not rely on explicit codes for either compression or error correction;instead, it directly maps the image pixel v...
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We propose a jointsource and channelcoding (JSCC) technique for wireless image transmission that does not rely on explicit codes for either compression or error correction;instead, it directly maps the image pixel values to the complex-valued channel input symbols. We parameterize the encoder and decoder functions by two convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are trained jointly, and can be considered as an autoencoder with a non-trainable layer in the middle that represents the noisy communication channel. Our results show that the proposed deep JSCC scheme outperforms digital transmission concatenating JPEG or JPEG2000 compression with a capacity achieving channel code at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and channel bandwidth values in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). More strikingly, deep JSCC does not suffer from the "cliff effect," and it provides a graceful performance degradation as the channel SNR varies with respect to the SNR value assumed during training. In the case of a slow Rayleigh fading channel, deep JSCC learns noise resilient coded representations and significantly outperforms separation-based digital communication at all SNR and channel bandwidth values.
作者:
Truong, Lan V.Tan, Vincent Y. F.NUS
Sch Comp Dept Comp Sci Singapore 119077 Singapore NUS
Dept Math Dept Elect & Comp Engn Singapore 119077 Singapore
We consider transmission of discrete memoryless sources (DMSes) across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length lossy source-channel codes with feedback. The reliability function (optimum error expone...
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We consider transmission of discrete memoryless sources (DMSes) across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length lossy source-channel codes with feedback. The reliability function (optimum error exponent) is shown to be equal to max{0, B(1 - R(D)/C)},, where R(D) is the rate-distortion function of the source, B is the maximum relative entropy between output distributions of the DMC, and C is the Shannon capacity of the channel. We show that in this asymptotic regime, separate source-channelcoding is, in fact, optimal.
We derive the second order rates of joint source-channel coding, whose source obeys an irreducible and ergodic Markov process by introducing new distribution family, switched Gaussian convolution distribution, when th...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781509040964
We derive the second order rates of joint source-channel coding, whose source obeys an irreducible and ergodic Markov process by introducing new distribution family, switched Gaussian convolution distribution, when the channel is a discrete memoryless. We also compare the jointsource-channel scheme with the separation scheme in the second order regime.
In this paper we provide sufficient conditions for lossy transmission of functions of correlated data over a multiple access channel (MAC). The conditions obtained can be shown as generalized version of Yamamoto's...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424441471
In this paper we provide sufficient conditions for lossy transmission of functions of correlated data over a multiple access channel (MAC). The conditions obtained can be shown as generalized version of Yamamoto's result [28]. We also obtain efficient joint source-channel coding schemes for transmission of discrete and continuous alphabet sources to recover the function values.
sourcecoding and channelcoding are the hot research parts in information theory. The sourcechannel separation system cannot take full advantage of the correlation between source and channel. The performance of the ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789811922558;9789811922541
sourcecoding and channelcoding are the hot research parts in information theory. The sourcechannel separation system cannot take full advantage of the correlation between source and channel. The performance of the joint source-channel coding (JSCC) system can be improved by using the redundant information of the source and this system is more suitable for future continuous error-free communication needs. In recent years, many applications require error-free transmission with low latency. Due to the special structure of parity check matrices (PCM), spatially coupled low-density parity-check (SC-LDPC) codes can adopt the sliding window decoding (SWD) algorithm to have the characteristics of low delay and ensure continuous error-free transmission in streaming media applications. Simulation results show that both spreading factor and window size affect decoding performance. This paper reviews the design of the sliding-window decoding algorithm in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel based on SC-LDPC codes and prospects future work.
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