Semantic-Effectiveness Filtering and Control for Post-5G Wireless Connectivity
By Petar Popovski, Osvaldo Simeone, Federico Boccardi, Deniz Gündüz, Onur Sahin. 2019
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The traditional role of a communication engineer is to address the technical problem of transporting bits reliably over a noisy channel. With the emergence of 5G, and the availability of a variety of competing and coexisting wireless systems, wireless connectivity is becoming a commodity. This article argues that communication engineers in the post-5G era should extend the scope of their activity in terms of design objectives and constraints beyond connectivity to encompass the semantics of the transferred bits within the given applications and use cases. To provide a platform for semantic-aware connectivity solutions, this paper introduces the concept of a semantic-effectiveness (SE) plane as a core part of future communication architectures. The SE plane augments the protocol stack by providing standardized interfaces that enable information filtering and direct control of functionalities at all layers of the protocol stack. The advantages of the SE plane are described in the perspective of recent developments in 5G, and illustrated through a number of example applications. The introduction of a SE plane may help replacing the current “next-G paradigm” in wireless evolution with a framework based on continuous improvements and extensions of the systems and standards.
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- Wireless Network Intelligence at the Edge (2018, background): “Furthermore, the payload size can be minimized by exchanging semantic information rather than raw data [46].”
- Semantics-Empowered Communication for Networked Intelligent Systems (2020, background): “Despite various endeavors to develop a theory of semantic/pragmatic information [5]–[9] and its potential applications into wireless protocol design [10], the information content/impact agnostic communication model has remained virtually unchallenged.”