提出可学习比特映射的比特级语义通信框架,提升抗噪能力与调制无关性。
BitSemCom: A Bit-Level Semantic Communication Framework with Learnable Probabilistic Mapping
- 设计可学习的比特映射器,实现语义特征到离散比特流的概率映射。
- 图像传输中相比码本法提升2-3 dB峰值信噪比,优于分离编解码基准。
- 适用于多种调制方式,无需重训练,适合实际部署场景。
基于联合源信道编码(JSCC)的现有语义通信系统多采用模拟调制,与现代数字通信系统不兼容,并带来严苛的硬件设计挑战。尽管已有若干数字传输方法被提出,但普遍存在对比特错误敏感、难以适应不同源分布或在不同调制方案下需重训练等问题。本文提出BitSemCom,一种新型端到端比特级JSCC框架,具备强抗噪声能力和调制无关性。核心是可学习的比特映射器,建立连续语义特征与离散比特序列间的概率映射。通过基于Gumbel-Softmax的采样式比特生成方法,实现比特级可微优化,同时保持对信道错误的鲁棒性。图像传输仿真结果表明,BitSemCom相较基于码本的数字语义传输方法,在峰值信噪比上持续获得2-3 dB增益,且性能媲美甚至优于分离源信道编码(SSCC)基准,展现出更强鲁棒性。消融实验进一步验证了可学习比特映射器的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most existing semantic communication systems based on joint source-channel coding (JSCC) employ analog modulation and are thus inherently incompatible with modern digital communication systems and impose stringent hardware design challenges. Although several digital transmission approaches have been proposed to address this issue, they often suffer from high sensitivity to bit errors, limited adaptability to varying source distributions, or re-training overhead under different modulation schemes. This letter proposes BitSemCom, a novel end-to-end bit-level JSCC framework that is robust to channel noise and modulation-agnostic. The core component is a learnable bit mapper that establishes a probabilistic mapping between continuous semantic features and discrete bit sequences. By leveraging a sampling-based bit generation method based on the Gumbel-Softmax trick, the framework enables differentiable bit-level optimization while maintaining robustness to channel errors. Simulation results on image transmission demonstrate that BitSemCom achieves consistent peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) gains of 2-3 dB over codebook-based digital semantic transmission methods and competitive performance with stronger robustness compared to separate source-channel coding (SSCC) benchmarks. Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of the learnable bit mapper.
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