Computing Networks Enabled Semantic Communications (2312.00740v1)
Abstract: Semantic communication has shown great potential in boosting the effectiveness and reliability of communications. However, its systems to date are mostly enabled by deep learning, which requires demanding computing resources. This article proposes a framework for the computing networks enabled semantic communication system, aiming to offer sufficient computing resources for semantic processing and transmission. Key techniques including semantic sampling and reconstruction, semantic-channel coding, semantic-aware resource allocation and optimization are introduced based on the cloud-edge-end computing coordination. Two use cases are demonstrated to show advantages of the proposed framework. The article concludes with several future research directions.
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