用检查码同时实现语义验证与重建增强,降低重传开销。
Joint Source-Channel-Check Coding with HARQ for Reliable Semantic Communications
- 将检查码融入源信道编码,实现语义验证与重建协同
- 97%分位峰值信噪比提升2.36 dB,中断概率降低37.45%
- 基于强化学习动态决策重传,适应复杂信道环境
语义通信有望提升传输效率与任务级可靠性,但现有可靠性增强方法多依赖语义保真度检测的重传策略,需额外检查码仅用于触发重传,造成显著通信开销。本文提出S3CHARQ框架,一种联合源-信道-检查码编码与混合自动重传请求机制,从根本上重构检查码在语义通信中的作用。通过将检查码整合进JSCC过程,实现JS3C,使检查码同时支持语义保真度验证与重建增强。发射端采用语义保真感知的检查编码器,在检查码中嵌入辅助重建信息;接收端通过JS3C解码器联合解码源、信道与检查码,并利用检查码进行感知质量估计。由于重传决策依赖于无真实重建的不完美语义质量估计,误差不可避免且根本限制规则式决策方案效果。为此,本文设计基于强化学习的重传决策模块,实现自适应样本级重传决策,在动态信道条件下有效平衡恢复与精炼信息。实验表明,相比现有基于HARQ的语义通信系统,所提S3CHARQ框架在97%分位PSNR上提升2.36 dB,中断概率降低37.45%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving transmission efficiency and task-level reliability, yet most existing reliability-enhancement approaches rely on retransmission strategies driven by semantic fidelity checking that require additional check codewords solely for retransmission triggering, thereby incurring substantial communication overhead. In this paper, we propose S3CHARQ, a Joint Source-Channel-Check Coding framework with hybrid automatic repeat request that fundamentally rethinks the role of check codewords in semantic communications. By integrating the check codeword into the JSCC process, S3CHARQ enables JS3C, allowing the check codeword to simultaneously support semantic fidelity verification and reconstruction enhancement. At the transmitter, a semantic fidelity-aware check encoder embeds auxiliary reconstruction information into the check codeword. At the receiver, the JSCC and check codewords are jointly decoded by a JS3C decoder, while the check codeword is additionally exploited for perceptual quality estimation. Moreover, because retransmission decisions are necessarily based on imperfect semantic quality estimation in the absence of ground-truth reconstruction, estimation errors are unavoidable and fundamentally limit the effectiveness of rule-based decision schemes. To overcome this limitation, we develop a reinforcement learning-based retransmission decision module that enables adaptive, sample-level retransmission decisions, effectively balancing recovery and refinement information under dynamic channel conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that compared with existing HARQ-based semantic communication systems, the proposed S3CHARQ framework achieves a 2.36 dB improvement in the 97th percentile PSNR, as well as a 37.45% reduction in outage probability.
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