Rethinking Multi-User Semantic Communications with Deep Generative Models

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Title: Rethinking Multi-User Semantic Communications with Deep Generative Models
Authors: Grassucci, Eleonora, Choi, Jinho, Park, Jihong, Gramaccioni, Riccardo F., Cicchetti, Giordano, Comminiello, Danilo
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing, Computer Science - Machine Learning
More Details: In recent years, novel communication strategies have emerged to face the challenges that the increased number of connected devices and the higher quality of transmitted information are posing. Among them, semantic communication obtained promising results especially when combined with state-of-the-art deep generative models, such as large language or diffusion models, able to regenerate content from extremely compressed semantic information. However, most of these approaches focus on single-user scenarios processing the received content at the receiver on top of conventional communication systems. In this paper, we propose to go beyond these methods by developing a novel generative semantic communication framework tailored for multi-user scenarios. This system assigns the channel to users knowing that the lost information can be filled in with a diffusion model at the receivers. Under this innovative perspective, OFDMA systems should not aim to transmit the largest part of information, but solely the bits necessary to the generative model to semantically regenerate the missing ones. The thorough experimental evaluation shows the capabilities of the novel diffusion model and the effectiveness of the proposed framework, leading towards a GenAI-based next generation of communications.
Comment: Under review in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09866
Accession Number: edsarx.2405.09866
Database: arXiv
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