6G Goal-Oriented AI-enabled Learning and Semantic Communication Networks

Project Information

6G-GOALS

Grant agreement ID: 101139232

DOI

10.3030/101139232

EC signature date 6 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 3 296 619,50

EU contribution

€ 3 174 154,88

Coordinated by

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (12)

Foundations of Reasoning through Semantic-empowered Communications: First results

This deliverable will present functional specification, semantic rules and methods for compatibility in semantic interpretation as a first result in T4.1

Report on test scenarios and validation capabilities

This report details the selected technological components, the deployment timeline, and the validation methodology (T6.1) for the selected innovations issued from WP3-5 that will be implemented in the project’s testbeds.

Exploitation of knowledge and results Plan

This deliverable will indicate the plan on how industry and academia will exploit the results developed during the project’s lifetime and their sustainability for a long-term exploitation.

Control Strategies and Adaptive L1/L2 Functionalities for Semantic Communications: First results

It will present the preliminary findings of T5.1, including the L1/L2 protocols and the associated control signalling that lead to efficient implementation of semantic-empowered communications.

Dissemination, communication, and project website

This deliverable will provide a detailed plan for dissemination activities of the project and details on project website and other dissemination media adopted by the project.

Dissemination and Standardization action plan

This deliverable will include the detailed plan for standardization in 3GPP, ETSI, 6G-SNS pre-standardization WG, 5G-IA, ORAN-SC – RIC and possibly in other standardization bodies as appropriate.

Functional specifications, metrics and KPIs for 6G-GOALS wireless systems analysis: first results

It contains preliminary novel metrics, trade-offs, definitions and KPIs from T2.2.

Semantic data acquisition, representation and compression methodologies: First results

This deliverable will present first results on both theoretical bounds and achievable schemes for semantic-oriented sampling, processing and compression schemes designed in T3.2.

First project management periodic report

It includes the first half of the project’s technical work description and financial monitoring, at the project level and at each WP level. It will include the description of the technical contributions from each partner over the reporting period, as well as the action plan and revised risk management plans.

Reference system, scenarios, use cases analysis and requirements: first results

It contains the first results on reference scenarios, uses cases selection from T2.1.

Quality plan and initial Data Management Plan

It contains a detailed quality plan giving the project guidelines, communication practices, preparation and delivery of progress reports, etc. It will also defines how data generated in the project is exploited, accessed, curated and preserved, based on the template recommended by the EC.

Functional specifications, metrics and KPIs for 6G-GOALS wireless systems analysis: final results

It contains final novel metrics, trade-offs, definitions and KPIs from T2.2.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (45)

SCSC: A Novel Standards-Compatible Semantic Communication Framework for Image Transmission

Author(s): Xue Han, Yongpeng Wu, Zhen Gao, Biqian Feng, Yuxuan Shi, Deniz Gündüz, Wenjun Zhang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3529221

A Versatile Pilot Design Scheme for FDD Systems Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models

Author(s): Nurettin Turan, Benedikt Böck, Benedikt Fesl, Michael Joham, Deniz Gündüz, Wolfgang Utschick
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3537496

Personalized Federated Learning Over the Air

Author(s): Zeshen Li, Zihan Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3573777

Topological signal processing and learning: Recent advances and future challenges

Author(s): Elvin Isufi, Geert Leus, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Sergio Barbarossa, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: Signal Processing, Issue 233, 2025, ISSN 0165-1684
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SIGPRO.2025.109930

Trustworthy Image Semantic Communication With GenAI: Explainablity, Controllability, And Efficiency

Author(s): Xijun Wang, Dongshan Ye, Chenyuan Feng, Howard H. Yang, Xiang Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.001.2400304

Pragmatic Communication for Remote Control of Finite-State Markov Processes

Author(s): Pietro Talli, Edoardo David Santi, Federico Chiariotti, Touraj Soleymani, Federico Mason, Andrea Zanella, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3559152

Over-the-Air Learning-Based Geometry Point Cloud Transmission

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3623164

Topological Dictionary Learning

Author(s): Enrico Grimaldi, Claudio Battiloro, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 74, 2025, ISSN 1053-587X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3646587

Zeroth-Order Over-the-Air Federated Large Model Tuning Over Edge Networks

Author(s): Zihan Chen, Howard H. Yang, Zeshen Li, Jihong Park, Tony Q. S. Quek
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3585344

Pragmatic Communication for Remote Control of Finite-State Markov Processes

Author(s): Pietro Talli, Edoardo David Santi, Federico Chiariotti, Touraj Soleymani, Federico Mason, Andrea Zanella, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3559152

Semantics-Guided Diffusion for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding in Wireless Image Transmission

Author(s): Maojun Zhang, Haotian Wu, Guangxu Zhu, Richeng Jin, Xiaoming Chen, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3591456

Adaptive layer and token selection for efficient fine-tuning of vision transformers

Author(s): Alessio Devoto, Federico Alvetreti, Jary Pomponi, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Pasquale Minervini, Simone Scardapane
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue 654, 2025, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUCOM.2025.131216

Goal-Oriented Source Coding and Filtering for Vehicular Communications

Author(s): Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Petar Popovski
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2024.3367438

Process-and-Forward: Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Over Cooperative Relay Networks

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Haotian Wu, Emre Ozfatura, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3531579

Point Cloud in the Air

Author(s): Yulin Shao, Chenghong Bian, Li Yang, Qianqian Yang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2400541

Flexible Bit and Semantic On-Demand Transmission Framework in Hyper-Reliable and Low Latency Communications Scenarios

Author(s): Jingxuan Zhang, Xiqi Cheng, Haijun Zhang, Peng Cui, Suyu Lv, Xiaodong Xu, Ping Zhang, Tony Q. S. Quek
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 25, 2026, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3598278

A Versatile Pilot Design Scheme for FDD Systems Utilizing Gaussian Mixture Models

Author(s): Nurettin Turan, Benedikt Böck, Benedikt Fesl, Michael Joham, Deniz Gündüz, Wolfgang Utschick
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3537496

Private Collaborative Edge Inference via Over-the-Air Computation

Author(s): Selim F. Yilmaz, Burak Hasircioğlu, Li Qiao, Denız Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2831-316X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMLCN.2025.3526551

A Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Hybrid Mobile Multi-Hop Networks

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3559134

Toward Understanding Federated Learning over Unreliable Networks

Author(s): Chenyuan Feng; Ahmed Arafa; Zihan Chen; Mingxiong Zhao; Tony Q. S. Quek; Howard H. Yang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 2025, ISSN 2831-316X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TMLCN.2024.3511475

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Adaptive Image Transmission Over MIMO Channels

Author(s): Haotian Wu, Yulin Shao, Chenghong Bian, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3422794

Agent-Driven Generative Semantic Communication With Cross-Modality and Prediction

Author(s): Wanting Yang, Zehui Xiong, Yanli Yuan, Wenchao Jiang, Tony Q. S. Quek, Mérouane Debbah
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3519325

A Theory of Semantic Communication

Author(s): Yulin Shao, Qi Cao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2024.3406375

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Meng Hua, Deniz Gunduz
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2025, ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher: IEEE Communications Society
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3602209

Rethinking Networked Robotics in the 6G Era With Generative AI-in-the-Loop

Author(s): Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin, Adnan Aijaz
Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2025, ISSN 2471-2825
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2025.3620856

Alternating Minimization Schemes for Computing Rate-Distortion-Perception Functions with <i>f</i>-Divergence Perception Constraints

Author(s): Giuseppe Serra, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025, ISSN 0018-9448
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2025.3604602

Over-the-Air Inference Through Analog Computation Over Multi-hop MIMO Networks

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Meng Hua, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2025, ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3602209

A Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding Scheme for Hybrid Mobile Multi-Hop Networks

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3559134

Transmit or Retransmit: A Tradeoff in Networked Control of Dynamical Processes Over Lossy Channels With Ideal Feedback

Author(s): Touraj Soleymani, John S. Baras, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Issue 70, 2024, ISSN 0018-9448
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2024.3452976

Explainable AI in 6G O-RAN: A Tutorial and Survey on Architecture, Use Cases, Challenges, and Future Research

Author(s): Bouziane Brik, Hatim Chergui, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Adlen Ksentini, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Xavier Costa-Pèrez, Christos Verikoukis
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys &amp; Tutorials, 2024, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3510543

Ultra-Low-Latency Edge Inference for Distributed Sensing

Author(s): Zhanwei Wang, Anders E. Kalør, You Zhou, Petar Popovski, Kaibin Huang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3593802

Opportunistic Information-Bottleneck for Goal-Oriented Feature Extraction and Communication

Author(s): Francesco Binucci; Paolo Banelli; Paolo Di Lorenzo; Sergio Barbarossa
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.09218

Topological signal processing and learning: Recent advances and future challenges

Author(s): Elvin Isufi, Geert Leus, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Sergio Barbarossa, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: Signal Processing, Issue 233, 2025, ISSN 0165-1684
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SIGPRO.2025.109930

Semantic V2X Communications for Image Transmission in 6G Systems

Author(s): Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Petar Popovski
Published in: IEEE Network, Issue 38, 2024, ISSN 0890-8044
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3420214

MAREA: A Delay-Aware Multi-Time-Scale Radio Resource Orchestrator for 6G O-RAN

Author(s): Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3552296

Adaptive Federated Learning Over the Air

Author(s): Chenhao Wang, Zihan Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang, Tony Q. S. Quek, H. Vincent Poor
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 1053-587X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3585002

Data Sourcing Random Access Using Semantic Queries for Massive IoT Scenarios

Author(s): Anders E. Kalør, Petar Popovski, Kaibin Huang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3610171

AirNet: Neural Network Transmission Over the Air

Author(s): Mikolaj Jankowski, Deniz Gündüz, Krystian Mikolajczyk
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3388329

Transformer-Aided Wireless Image Transmission With Channel Feedback

Author(s): Haotian Wu, Yulin Shao, Emre Ozfatura, Krystian Mikolajczyk, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3386052

Unified Timing Analysis for Closed-Loop Goal-Oriented Wireless Communication

Author(s): Lintao Li, Anders E. Kalør, Petar Popovski, Wei Chen
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3525087

Massive Digital Over-the-Air Computation for Communication-Efficient Federated Edge Learning

Author(s): Li Qiao, Zhen Gao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 42, 2024, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3431572

Graph Neural Networks over the Air for Decentralized Tasks in Wireless Networks

Author(s): Zhan Gao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2025, ISSN 1053-587X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3534685

6G: the catalyst for artificial general intelligence

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, 2024, ISSN 2948-1201
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44287-024-00090-1

Joint Source–Channel Coding: Fundamentals and Recent Progress in Practical Designs

Author(s): Deniz Gündüz, Michèle A. Wigger, Tze-Yang Tung, Ping Zhang, Yong Xiao
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024, ISSN 0018-9219
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2024.3477331

Preserving Simultaneity and Chronology for Sensing in Perceptive Wireless Networks

Author(s): João Henrique Inacio de Souza, Fabio Saggese, Beatriz Soret, Petar Popovski
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3591962

Other (4)

Energy-Aware Joint Orchestration of 5G and Robots: Experimental Testbed and Field Validation

Author(s): Groshev, Milan; Zanzi, Lanfranco; Delgado Pinillos, Carmen; Xi, Li; de la Oliva, Antonio; Costa-Pérez, Xavier
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15308285

Sustainability in SNS JU Projects - Targets, Methodologies, Trade-offs and Implementation Considerations Towards 6G Systems

Author(s): Rezaki, Ali; Trichias, Konstantinos; Mesodiakaki, Agapi; Gavras, Anastasius; Aseeva, Anna; Berardinelli, Gilberto; Osman, Hassan; Gutiérrez Terán, Jesús; Petersen, Katrina; Gramaglia, Marco; Katz, Marcos; Bezzi, Margot; Ghoraishi, Mir
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15555292

Towards 6G Architecture: Key Concepts, Challenges, and Building Blocks

Author(s): Gramaglia, Marco, Bulakci, Ömer, Li Xi, Gavras Anastasius, Ericson Mårten, Kerboeuf Sylvaine, Larrabeiti David, Ghoraishi Mir, Mesodiakaki Agapi, Koumaras Harilaos, Robitzsch Sebastian, Asensio Garriga, Rodrigo Skarmeta, Gómez Antonio, Tsolkas, Dimitris
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo

European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

Author(s): Uusitalo, Mikko; Bernardos, Carlos Jesus; Kaloxylos, Alexandros; Bourse, Didier Arnaud; Norp, Toon; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Hecker, Artur; Rugeland, Patrik; Papagianni, Chrysa; Bulakci, Ömer; Li, Xi; Ericson, Mårten; Anton-Haro, Carles; Massod Khorsandi, Baha
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14230482

Conference proceedings (54)

Quantum Semantic Communications for Graph-Based Models

Author(s): N. Nunavath, M. I. Habibie, E. Calvanese Strinati, R. Bassoli, and F. H. P. Fitzek
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694659

Optimization for Semantic-Aware Resource Allocation Under CPT-Based Utilities

Author(s): Symeon Vaidanis, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC66079.2025.11143243

Wireless Point Cloud Transmission

Author(s): Chenghong Bian, Yulin Shao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694621

Robust Federated Learning Over the Air: Combating Heavy-Tailed Noise with Median Anchored Clipping

Author(s): Jiaxing Li, Zihan Chen, Kai Fong Ernest Chong, Bikramjit Das, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT66569.2025.11123216

Model-Heterogeneous Prototypical Federated Learning Over the Air

Author(s): Chuhan Sun, Zihan Chen, Liyinglan Liu, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT66569.2025.11123185

Learning Sheaf Laplacian Optimizing Restriction Maps

Author(s): Leonardo Di Nino, Sergio Barbarossa, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942997

Goal-Oriented Semantic Resource Allocation with Cumulative Prospect Theoretic Agents

Author(s): Symeon Vaidanis, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161521

Coexistence of Push Wireless Access with Pull Communication for Content-based Wake-up Radios

Author(s): Junya Shiraishi; Sara Cavallero; Shashi Raj Pandey; Fabio Saggese; Petar Popovski
Published in: GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.12816

Relative Representations of Latent Spaces enable Efficient Semantic Channel Equalization

Author(s): Tomás Hüttebräucker, Simone Fiorellino, Mohamed Sana, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GCWKSHP64532.2024.11100849

On the Rate-Distortion-Perception Function for Gaussian Processes

Author(s): Giuseppe Serra, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2025, ISSN 2157-8117
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISIT63088.2025.11195668

Dynamically Fine-Tuned Neural Compressor for FDD Massive MIMO CSI Feedback

Author(s): Mehdi Sattari, Deniz Gündüz, Tommy Svensson
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC66079.2025.11143260

Information Entropy-Based Scheduling for Communication-Efficient Decentralized Learning

Author(s): Jaiprakash Nagar, Zheng Chen, Marios Kountouris, Photios A. Stavrou
Published in: 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2025, ISSN 2161-0371
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MLSP62443.2025.11204341

Topological Neural Networks over the Air

Author(s): Simone Fiorellino; Claudio Battiloro; Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446693

Task-Oriented Connectivity for Networked Robotics with Generative AI and Semantic Communications

Author(s): Peizheng Li, Adnan Aijaz
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS65812.2025.11152855

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS: RATE-REWARD TRADE-OFF IN MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES

Author(s): Haotian Wu, Gongpu Chen, Deniz Gunduz
Published in: 2025
Publisher: ICLR

Batch Selection and Communication for Active Learning with Edge Labeling

Author(s): Victor Croisfelt, Shashi Raj Pandey, Osvaldo Simeone, Petar Popovski
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS59551.2024.10615928

Compression Beyond Pixels: Semantic Compression with Multimodal Foundation Models

Author(s): Ruiqi Shen, Haotian Wu, Wenjing Zhang, Jiangjing Hu, Deniz Gunduz
Published in: 2025 IEEE 35th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MLSP62443.2025.11204229

RL-Driven Semantic Compression Model Selection and Resource Allocation in Semantic Communication Systems

Author(s): Xinyi Lin, Peizheng Li, Adnan Aijaz
Published in: 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11274758

Pragmatic Goal-Oriented Communications Under Semantic-Effectiveness Channel Errors

Author(s): Tomás Huttebraucker, Mohamed Sana, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications &amp; Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC51664.2024.10454728

Position: Topological Deep Learning is the New Frontier for Relational Learning

Author(s): Theodore Papamarkou · Tolga Birdal · Michael Bronstein · Gunnar Carlsson · Justin Curry · Yue Gao · Mustafa Hajij · Roland Kwitt · Pietro Lió · Paolo Di Lorenzo · Vasileios Maroulas · Nina
Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
Publisher: OpenReview.net

Federated Latent Space Alignment for Multi-User Semantic Communications

Author(s): Giuseppe Di Poce, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC66079.2025.11143294

Goal-Oriented Communications Based on Recursive Early Exit Neural Networks

Author(s): Jary Pomponi, Mattia Merluzzi, Alessio Devoto, Mateus Pontes Mota, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Simone Scardapane
Published in: 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942792

Optimizing RIS Impairments through Semantic Communication

Author(s): Nour Hello, Mattia Merluzzi, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Luca Sanguinetti
Published in: 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GCWKSHP64532.2024.11100987

ORANUS: Latency-tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN

Author(s): Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa; Lanfranco Zanzi; Vincenzo Sciancalepore; Andres Garcia-Saavedra; Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621356

Network Digital Twin for 5G-Enabled Mobile Robots

Author(s): Luis Roda Sanchez, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Guillem Gari, Xavier Costa Perez
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.02253

Token-Domain Multiple Access: Exploiting Semantic Orthogonality for Collision Mitigation

Author(s): Li Qiao, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Zhen Gao, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS65812.2025.11152964

Soft Partitioning of Latent Space for Semantic Channel Equalization

Author(s): Tomás Hüttebräucker, Mohamed Sana, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2024 19th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS61526.2024.10639062

LISAC: Learned Coded Waveform Design for ISAC with OFDM

Author(s): Chenghong Bian; Yumeng Zhang; Deniz Gündüz
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978729

Enabling Edge Artificial Intelligence via Goal-oriented Deep Neural Network Splitting

Author(s): Francesco Binucci, Mattia Merluzzi, Paolo Banelli, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2024 19th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS61526.2024.10639178

Coexistence of Pull and Push Communication in Wireless Access for IoT Devices

Author(s): Sara Cavallero, Fabio Saggese, Junya Shiraishi, Shashi Raj Pandey, Chiara Buratti, Petar Popovski
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694005

Collaborative Edge Inference via Semantic Grouping Under Wireless Channel Constraints

Author(s): Mateus P. Mota, Mattia Merluzzi, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226724

Semantic Channel Equalizer: Modelling Language Mismatch in Multi-User Semantic Communications

Author(s): Sana, Mohamed; Strinati, Emilio Calvanese
Published in: GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.03789

Latent Space Alignment for Semantic Channel Equalization

Author(s): Hüttebraucker, Tomás; Sana, Mohamed; Calvanese Strinati, Emilio
Published in: 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLCN59089.2024.10625015

Data-Driven Online Learning Algorithm for Optimal Linear Tracking Control Over Unreliable Wireless MIMO Fading Channels

Author(s): Minjie Tang, Chenyuan Feng, Tony Q. S. Quek
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978127

From Latent Graph to Latent Topology Inference: Differentiable Cell Complex Module

Author(s): Claudio Battiloro, Indro Spinelli, Lev Telyatnikov, Michael Bronstein, Simone Scardapane, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: Proceedings of The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
Publisher: OpenReview.net
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.16174

Joint Channel and Semantic-Aware Grouping for Effective Collaborative Edge Inference

Author(s): Mateus P. Mota, Mattia Merluzzi, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC66079.2025.11143310

Adaptive Semantic Token Selection for AI-native Goal-oriented Communications

Author(s): Alessio Devoto, Jary Pomponi, Simone Petruzzi, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Simone Scardapane
Published in: 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GCWKSHP64532.2024.11100347

A Telecom Generative AI Marketplace for 6G Open Networks: Architecture and Early Evaluation

Author(s): Peizheng Li, Adrián Sánchez-Mompó, Tim Farnham, Aftab Khan, Adnan Aijaz
Published in: 2025 16th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WMNC67099.2025.11299268

Goal-Oriented and Semantic Communication in 6G AI-Native Networks: The 6G-GOALS Approach

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Adnan Aijaz, Marios Kountouris, Deniz Gündüz, Petar Popovski, Mohamed Sana, Photios A. Stavrou, Beatriz Soret, Nicola Cordeschi, Simone Scardapane, Mattia Merluzzi, Lanfranco Zanzi, Maur
Published in: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT60053.2024.10597087

Rollout-Based Approximate Dynamic Programming for MDPs with Information-Theoretic Constraints

Author(s): Zixuan He, Charalambos D. Charalambous, Photios A. Stavrou
Published in: 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2026, ISSN 2576-2370
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312789

Semantic Communication Enhanced by Knowledge Graph Representation Learning

Author(s): N. Hello, P. Di Lorenzo, E. Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694291

Analyzing α-divergence in Gaussian Rate-Distortion-Perception Theory

Author(s): Martha V. Sourla, Giuseppe Serra, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694296

Remote Estimation of Markov Processes over Costly Channels: On Implicit Information Benefits

Author(s): Edoardo D. Santi, Touraj Soleymani, Deniz Gündüz
Published in: GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901661

A New Finite-Horizon Dynamic Programming Analysis of Nonanticipative Rate-Distortion Function for Markov Sources

Author(s): He, Zixuan; Charalambous, Charalambos; Stavrou, Photios
Published in: 2025 European Control Conference (ECC), 2025, ISSN 2996-8895
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.11698

Latent Space Alignment for AI-Native MIMO Semantic Communications

Author(s): Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Simone Fiorellino, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN64981.2025.11228893

On Distributionally Robust Lossy Source Coding

Author(s): Giuseppe Serra, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: 2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2025, ISSN 2475-4218
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ITW62417.2025.11240262

DiffCP: Ultra-Low Bit Collaborative Perception via Diffusion Model

Author(s): Ruiqing Mao, Haotian Wu, Yukuan Jia, Zhaojun Nan, Yuxuan Sun, Sheng Zhou, Deniz Gündüz, Zhisheng Niu
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11128518

Dynamic Relative Representations for Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications

Author(s): Simone Fiorellino; Claudio Battiloro; Emilio Calvanese Strinati; Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63174.2024.10715102

CSI-Free Low-Complexity Remote State Estimation Over Wireless MIMO Fading Channels Using Semantic Analog Aggregation

Author(s): Minjie Tang, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
Published in: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161637

Causal Abstraction Learning based on the Semantic Embedding Principle

Author(s): Gabriele DAcunto, Fabio Massimo Zennaro, Yorgos Felekis, Paolo Di Lorenzo
Published in: 2025
Publisher: ICML

Building the Self-Improvement Loop: Error Detection and Correction in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications

Author(s): Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin, Adnan Aijaz
Published in: 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN63874.2024.10849728

EcoPull:Sustainable IoT Image Retrieval Empowered by TinyML Models

Author(s): Thorsager, Mathias; Croisfelt, Victor; Shiraishi, Junya; Popovski, Petar
Published in: Thorsager, M, Croisfelt, V, Shiraishi, J & Popovski, P 2024, EcoPull : Sustainable IoT Image Retrieval Empowered by TinyML Models. in GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), pp. 5066-5071. https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901782, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901782

Experimental Evaluation of Radio-aware Semantic Map with 5G-Enabled Mobile Robots

Author(s): Adrian Lendinez, Lanfranco Zanzi, Xi Li, Sandra Moreno, Guillem Garí, Christina Lessi, Vladimir Guroma, Renxi Qiu, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246785

Goal-Oriented Spectrum Sharing: Trading Edge Inference Power for Data Streaming Performance

Author(s): Mattia Merluzzi, Miltiadis C. Filippou
Published in: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226065

Book chapters (1)

Interoperability and Coexistence of 6G Semantic, Goal-Oriented, and Legacy Systems

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Mohamed Sana, Mattia Merluzzi, and Tomás Huttebraucker
Published in: Foundations of Semantic Communication Networks, 2024
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press