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Jungyeon Baek

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arXiv2026

Rethinking Communication Metrics: How Should We Measure Meaning?

Semantic communication shifts the objective of communication systems from accurate symbol reconstruction toward meaning preservation, task accomplishment, and efficient information exchange. However, its evaluation remains fragmented across telecommunications, natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning, and no single metric can characterize semantic quality across modalities, tasks, and channel conditions. This article surveys key performance indicators (KPIs) for text- and image-based semantic communication systems from a unified, evaluation-centered perspective. Unlike prior surveys primarily organized around architectures, applications, or transmission strategies, this work focuses on how semantic success should be defined and measured. Existing KPIs are classified according to communication goal, source modality, receiver output, reference availability, evaluation level, and channel or resource constraints. The survey reviews reconstruction-based, task-oriented, reference-free, representation-level, perceptual, and channel-aware metrics, and presents a cross-modality comparison of their roles, strengths, and limitations. It further analyzes how unresolved semantic-KPI challenges affect monitoring, quality assurance, resource optimization, fault diagnosis, and standardization. Key open problems include the absence of universal semantic success criteria and standardized semantic ground truth, semantic drift, limited reference-free evaluation, weak integration of machine-learning metrics with communication constraints, and the lack of relation-level and multimodal KPIs. Finally, future research directions are outlined toward standardized, interpretable, adaptive, task-aware, and communication-aware evaluation frameworks.

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arXiv2020

Heterogeneous Task Offloading and Resource Allocations via Deep Recurrent Reinforcement Learning in Partial Observable Multi-Fog Networks

As wireless services and applications become more sophisticated and require faster and higher-capacity networks, there is a need for an efficient management of the execution of increasingly complex tasks based on the requirements of each application. In this regard, fog computing enables the integration of virtualized servers into networks and brings cloud services closer to end devices. In contrast to the cloud server, the computing capacity of fog nodes is limited and thus a single fog node might not be capable of computing-intensive tasks. In this context, task offloading can be particularly useful at the fog nodes by selecting the suitable nodes and proper resource management while guaranteeing the Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements of the users. This paper studies the design of a joint task offloading and resource allocation control for heterogeneous service tasks in multi-fog nodes systems. This problem is formulated as a partially observable stochastic game, in which each fog node cooperates to maximize the aggregated local rewards while the nodes only have access to local observations. To deal with partial observability, we apply a deep recurrent Q-network (DRQN) approach to approximate the optimal value functions. The solution is then compared to a deep Q-network (DQN) and deep convolutional Q-network (DCQN) approach to evaluate the performance of different neural networks. Moreover, to guarantee the convergence and accuracy of the neural network, an adjusted exploration-exploitation method is adopted. Provided numerical results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve a higher average success rate and lower average overflow than baseline methods.

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