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Pyae Sone Aung

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arXiv2025

A Contemporary Survey on Semantic Communications:Theory of Mind, Generative AI, and Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The most significant obstacle lies in the lack of standardization across various research directions, leading to inconsistencies in interpretation, objectives, and evaluation. In this survey, we provide an in-depth overview of three leading directions in semantic communication, namely Theory of Mind-based semantic communication, Generative AI-driven semantic communication, and Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (DJSCC)-based semantic communication. These directions have been extensively studied and developed by research institutes worldwide, and their effectiveness continues to improve alongside advances in communication and computing technologies. The ToM-based semantic communication enables communication agents to interact intelligently, infer each other's intentions, and gradually form a shared understanding. The GAI-based semantic communication leverages generative models to create and interpret content beyond traditional compression, allowing flexible semantic encoding and decoding tailored to specific tasks. The DJSCC-based semantic communication direction integrates DL models to jointly optimize the source and channel coding processes for efficient semantic information transfer. Next, we present a detailed survey of existing works under each direction and open research problems in semantic communication. Furthermore, we identify and analyze critical challenges, such as scalability and adaptability, that currently hinder the deployment of semantic communication systems. Finally, we discuss potential research opportunities and future directions such as quantum computing to further enhance the capabilities of semantic communication.

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arXiv2024

Active STAR-RIS Empowered Edge System for Enhanced Energy Efficiency and Task Management

The proliferation of data-intensive and low-latency applications has driven the development of multi-access edge computing (MEC) as a viable solution to meet the increasing demands for high-performance computing and storage capabilities at the network edge. Despite the benefits of MEC, challenges such as obstructions cause non-line-of-sight (NLoS) communication to persist. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and the more advanced simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR)-RISs have emerged to address these challenges; however, practical limitations and multiplicative fading effects hinder their efficacy. We propose an active STAR-RIS-assisted MEC system to overcome these obstacles, leveraging the advantages of active STAR-RIS. The main contributions consist of formulating an optimization problem to minimize energy consumption with task queue stability by jointly optimizing the partial task offloading, amplitude, phase shift coefficients, amplification coefficients, transmit power of the base station (BS), and admitted tasks. Furthermore, we decompose the non-convex problem into manageable sub-problems, employing sequential fractional programming for transmit power control, convex optimization technique for task offloading, and Lyapunov optimization with double deep Q-network (DDQN) for joint amplitude, phase shift, amplification, and task admission. Extensive performance evaluations demonstrate the superiority of the proposed system over benchmark schemes, highlighting its potential for enhancing MEC system performance. Numerical results indicate that our proposed system outperforms the conventional STAR-RIS-assisted by 18.64\% and the conventional RIS-assisted system by 30.43\%, respectively.

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arXiv2023

Aerial STAR-RIS Empowered MEC: A DRL Approach for Energy Minimization

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) addresses computational and battery limitations in devices by allowing them to offload computation tasks. To overcome the difficulties in establishing line-of-sight connections, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has proven beneficial, offering enhanced data exchange, rapid deployment, and mobility. The utilization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), specifically simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) technology, further extends coverage capabilities and introduces flexibility in MEC. This study explores the integration of UAV and STAR-RIS to facilitate communication between IoT devices and an MEC server. The formulated problem aims to minimize energy consumption for IoT devices and aerial STAR-RIS by jointly optimizing task offloading, aerial STAR-RIS trajectory, amplitude and phase shift coefficients, and transmit power. Given the non-convexity of the problem and the dynamic environment, solving it directly within a polynomial time frame is challenging. Therefore, deep reinforcement learning (DRL), particularly proximal policy optimization (PPO), is introduced for its sample efficiency and stability. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed system compared to benchmark schemes in the literature.

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arXiv2023

An Efficient Federated Learning Framework for Training Semantic Communication System

Semantic communication has emerged as a pillar for the next generation of communication systems due to its capabilities in alleviating data redundancy. Most semantic communication systems are built upon advanced deep learning models whose training performance heavily relies on data availability. Existing studies often make unrealistic assumptions of a readily accessible data source, where in practice, data is mainly created on the client side. Due to privacy and security concerns, the transmission of data is restricted, which is necessary for conventional centralized training schemes. To address this challenge, we explore semantic communication in a federated learning (FL) setting that utilizes client data without leaking privacy. Additionally, we design our system to tackle the communication overhead by reducing the quantity of information delivered in each global round. In this way, we can save significant bandwidth for resource-limited devices and reduce overall network traffic. Finally, we introduce a mechanism to aggregate the global model from clients, called FedLol. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed technique compared to baseline methods.

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arXiv2023

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Joint Spectrum Allocation and Configuration Design for STAR-RIS-Assisted V2X Communications

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications play a crucial role in ensuring safe and efficient modern transportation systems. However, challenges arise in scenarios with buildings, leading to signal obstruction and coverage limitations. To alleviate these challenges, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as an effective solution for communication performance by tuning passive signal reflection. RIS has acquired prominence in 6G networks due to its improved spectral efficiency, simple deployment, and cost-effectiveness. Nevertheless, conventional RIS solutions have coverage limitations. Therefore, researchers have started focusing on the promising concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS), which provides 360\degree coverage while utilizing the advantages of RIS technology. In this paper, a STAR-RIS-assisted V2X communication system is investigated. An optimization problem is formulated to maximize the achievable data rate for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) users while satisfying the latency and reliability requirements of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) pairs by jointly optimizing the spectrum allocation, amplitudes, and phase shifts of STAR-RIS elements, digital beamforming vectors for V2I links, and transmit power for V2V pairs. Since it is challenging to solve in polynomial time, we decompose our problem into two sub-problems. For the first sub-problem, we model the control variables as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and propose a combined double deep Q-network (DDQN) with an attention mechanism so that the model can potentially focus on relevant inputs. For the latter, a standard optimization-based approach is implemented to provide a real-time solution, reducing computational costs. Extensive numerical analysis is developed to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed algorithm compared to benchmark schemes.

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arXiv2022

Energy-Efficient Communication Networks via Multiple Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: DRL and Optimization Approach

In the realm of wireless communications in 5G, 6G and beyond, deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been an innovative approach to extend the coverage area due to its easy deployment. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has also emerged as a new paradigm with the goals of enhancing the average sum-rate as well as energy efficiency. By combining these attractive features, an energy-efficient RIS-mounted multiple UAVs (aerial RISs: ARISs) assisted downlink communication system is studied. Due to the obstruction, user equipments (UEs) can have a poor line of sight to communicate with the base station (BS). To solve this, multiple ARISs are implemented to assist the communication between the BS and UEs. Then, the joint optimization problem of deployment of ARIS, ARIS reflective elements on/off states, phase shift, and power control of the multiple ARISs-assisted communication system is formulated. The problem is challenging to solve since it is mixed-integer, non-convex, and NP-hard. To overcome this, it is decomposed into three sub-problems. Afterwards, successive convex approximation (SCA), actor-critic proximal policy optimization (AC-PPO), and whale optimization algorithm (WOA) are employed to solve these sub-problems alternatively. Finally, extensive simulation results have been generated to illustrate the efficacy of our proposed algorithms.

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