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20192025
most citedLess Data, More Knowledge: Building Next Generation Semantic Communication Networks

45 citations · 112 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.NI2025★ 3 cited

Large-Scale AI in Telecom: Charting the Roadmap for Innovation, Scalability, and Enhanced Digital Experiences

Adnan Shahid, Adrian Kliks, Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi +132

This white paper discusses the role of large-scale AI in the telecommunications industry, with a specific focus on the potential of generative AI to revolutionize network functions…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Resilience and Criticality: Brothers in Arms for 6G

Robert-Jeron Reifert, Yasemin Karacora, Christina Chaccour +2

In this paper, we develop the first comprehensive tutorial on designing future 6G networks that synergistically integrate notions of resilience and criticality from the ground up.…

cs.IT2024

Event-Based Framework for Agile Resilience in Criticality-Aware Wireless Networks

Yasemin Karacora, Christina Chaccour, Aydin Sezgin +1

As mission- and safety-critical wireless applications grow in complexity and diversity, next-generation wireless systems must meet increasingly stringent and multifaceted requireme…

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)-Native Wireless Systems: A Journey Beyond 6G

Walid Saad, Omar Hashash, Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas +4

Building future wireless systems that support services like digital twins (DTs) is challenging to achieve through advances to conventional technologies like meta-surfaces. While ar…

cs.IT2023★ 2 cited

Causal Reasoning: Charting a Revolutionary Course for Next-Generation AI-Native Wireless Networks

Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad +2

Despite the basic premise that next-generation wireless networks (e.g., 6G) will be artificial intelligence (AI)-native, to date, most existing efforts remain either qualitative or…

cs.NI2023★ 2 cited

Catch Me If You Can: Deep Meta-RL for Search-and-Rescue using LoRa UAV Networks

Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Hossein Aghajari, Sajad Ahmadinabi +3

Long range (LoRa) wireless networks have been widely proposed as a efficient wireless access networks for the battery-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In many practica…

cs.NI2023★ 2 cited

Joint Sensing, Communication, and AI: A Trifecta for Resilient THz User Experiences

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah +1

In this paper a novel joint sensing, communication, and artificial intelligence (AI) framework is proposed so as to optimize extended reality (XR) experiences over terahertz (THz)…

cs.IT2023

The Seven Worlds and Experiences of the Wireless Metaverse: Challenges and Opportunities

Omar Hashash, Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad +3

The wireless metaverse will create diverse user experiences at the intersection of the physical, digital, and virtual worlds. These experiences will enable novel interactions betwe…

cs.IT2023

Integrated Communication and Control Systems: A Data Significance Perspective

Stefan Roth, Yasemin Karacora, Christina Chaccour +2

The interconnected smart devices and industrial internet of things devices require low-latency communication to fulfill control objectives despite limited resources. In essence, su…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Disentangling Learnable and Memorizable Data via Contrastive Learning for Semantic Communications

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad

Achieving artificially intelligent-native wireless networks is necessary for the operation of future 6G applications such as the metaverse. Nonetheless, current communication schem…

cs.IT2022★ 4 cited

Towards a Decentralized Metaverse: Synchronized Orchestration of Digital Twins and Sub-Metaverses

Omar Hashash, Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad +2

Accommodating digital twins (DTs) in the metaverse is essential to achieving digital reality. This need for integrating DTs into the metaverse while operating them at the network e…

cs.AI2022★ 45 cited

Less Data, More Knowledge: Building Next Generation Semantic Communication Networks

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah +2

Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surg…

cs.NI2022★ 11 cited

Quantum Semantic Communications for Resource-Efficient Quantum Networking

Mahdi Chehimi, Christina Chaccour, Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas +1

Quantum communication networks (QCNs) utilize quantum mechanics for secure information transmission, but the reliance on fragile and expensive photonic quantum resources renders QC…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Edge Continual Learning for Dynamic Digital Twins over Wireless Networks

Omar Hashash, Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad

Digital twins (DTs) constitute a critical link between the real-world and the metaverse. To guarantee a robust connection between these two worlds, DTs should maintain accurate rep…

cs.IT2022★ 1 cited

Event-Based Beam Tracking with Dynamic Beamwidth Adaptation in Terahertz (THz) Communications

Yasemin Karacora, Christina Chaccour, Aydin Sezgin +1

Terahertz (THz) communication will be a key enabler for next-generation wireless systems. While THz frequency bands provide abundant bandwidth and extremely high data rates, their…

cs.IT2021

Joint Sensing and Communication for Situational Awareness in Wireless THz Systems

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad, Omid Semiari +2

Next-generation wireless systems are rapidly evolving from communication-only systems to multi-modal systems with integrated sensing and communications. In this paper a novel joint…

cs.NI2021★ 1 cited

Lifelong Learning for Minimizing Age of Information in Internet of Things Networks

Zhenzhen Gong, Qimei Cui, Christina Chaccour +3

In this paper, a lifelong learning problem is studied for an Internet of Things (IoT) system. In the considered model, each IoT device aims to balance its information freshness and…

cs.IT2021★ 1 cited

Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing

Christina Chaccour, Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Walid Saad +3

Wireless communication at the terahertz (THz) frequency bands (0.1-10THz) is viewed as one of the cornerstones of tomorrow's 6G wireless systems. Owing to the large amount of avail…

cs.IT2020★ 1 cited

Joint Location, Bandwidth and Power Optimization for THz-enabled UAV Communications

Luyao Xu, Ming Chen, Mingzhe Chen +4

In this paper, the problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployment, power allocation, and bandwidth allocation is investigated for a UAV-assisted wireless system operating at t…

cs.IT2020

On the Ruin of Age of Information in Augmented Reality over Wireless Terahertz (THz) Networks

Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad

Guaranteeing fresh and reliable information for augmented reality (AR) services is a key challenge to enable a real-time experience and sustain a high quality of physical experienc…

cs.IT2020★ 33 cited

Can Terahertz Provide High-Rate Reliable Low Latency Communications for Wireless VR?

Christina Chaccour, Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Walid Saad +2

Wireless virtual reality (VR) imposes new visual and haptic requirements that are directly linked to the quality-of-experience (QoE) of VR users. These QoE requirements can only be…

cs.IT2020

Risk-Based Optimization of Virtual Reality over Terahertz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Christina Chaccour, Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Walid Saad +2

In this paper, the problem of associating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to virtual reality (VR) users is studied for a wireless VR network. In particular, this problem…

cs.IT2019

On the Reliability of Wireless Virtual Reality at Terahertz (THz) Frequencies

Christina Chaccour, Ramy Amer, Bo Zhou +1

Guaranteeing ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) with high data rates for virtual reality (VR) services is a key challenge to enable a dual VR perception: visual and…