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most citedDistributed Traffic Synthesis and Classification in Edge Networks: A Federated Self-supervised Learning Approach

48 citations · 127 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CR2026

Skillsets on the Chain: A Blockchain-based Zero-Trust Framework for Agentic AI Networking

Yayu Gao, Yong Xiao, Hao Hu +5

Agentic AI networking (AgentNet) systems rely heavily on third-party skillset implementations and distributed multi-agent collaboration, yet they face major claim-to-capability inc…

cs.AI2026

Implicit Semantic-Aware Communication Based on Hypergraph Reasoning

Yiwei Liao, Shurui Tu, Yong Xiao +2

Semantic-aware communication has emerged as a transformative paradigm for next-generation communication systems, shifting the fundamental goal from transmitting bit-level symbols t…

cs.AI2026

Generalization Bounds of Emergent Communications for Agentic AI Networking

Yong Xiao, Jingxuan Chai, Guangming Shi +1

The evolution of 6G networking toward agentic AI networking (AgentNet) systems requires a shift from traditional data pipelines to task-aware, agentic AI-native communication solut…

cs.IT2026

On the Rate-Distortion-Complexity Tradeoff for Semantic Communication

Jingxuan Chai, Yong Xiao, Guangming Shi

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the k…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

SANet: A Semantic-aware Agentic AI Networking Framework for Cross-layer Optimization in 6G

Yong Xiao, Xubo Li, Haoran Zhou +5

Agentic AI networking (AgentNet) is a novel AI-native networking paradigm in which a large number of specialized AI agents collaborate to perform autonomous decision-making, dynami…

cs.IT2025

Variable-Length Joint Source-Channel Coding for Semantic Communication

Yujie Zhou, Rulong Wang, Yong Xiao +2

This paper investigates a key challenge faced by joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in digital semantic communication (SemCom): the incompatibility between existing JSCC schemes th…

cs.IT2025

Distributed Information Bottleneck Theory for Multi-Modal Task-Aware Semantic Communication

Yujie Zhou, Cheng Peng, Rulong Wang +4

Semantic communication shifts the focus from bit-level accuracy to task-relevant semantic delivery, enabling efficient and intelligent communication for next-generation networks. H…

cs.AI2025

SANNet: A Semantic-Aware Agentic AI Networking Framework for Multi-Agent Cross-Layer Coordination

Yong Xiao, Haoran Zhou, Xubo Li +3

Agentic AI networking (AgentNet) is a novel AI-native networking paradigm that relies on a large number of specialized AI agents to collaborate and coordinate for autonomous decisi…

cs.NI2025

Towards Agentic AI Networking in 6G: A Generative Foundation Model-as-Agent Approach

Yong Xiao, Guangming Shi, Ping Zhang

The promising potential of AI and network convergence in improving networking performance and enabling new service capabilities has recently attracted significant interest. Existin…

cs.DC2024

SANSee: A Physical-layer Semantic-aware Networking Framework for Distributed Wireless Sensing

Huixiang Zhu, Yong Xiao, Yingyu Li +2

Contactless device-free wireless sensing has recently attracted significant interest due to its potential to support a wide range of immersive human-machine interactive application…

cs.NI2024★ 25 cited

Towards Net-Zero Carbon Emissions in Network AI for 6G and Beyond

Peng Zhang, Yong Xiao, Yingyu Li +3

A global effort has been initiated to reduce the worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily carbon emissions, by half by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. The development o…

cs.IT2023

Rate-Distortion-Perception Theory for Semantic Communication

Jingxuan Chai, Yong Xiao, Guangming Shi +1

Semantic communication has attracted significant interest recently due to its capability to meet the fast growing demand on user-defined and human-oriented communication services s…

cs.NI2023

Physical-Layer Semantic-Aware Network for Zero-Shot Wireless Sensing

Huixiang Zhu, Yong Xiao, Yingyu Li +2

Device-free wireless sensing has recently attracted significant interest due to its potential to support a wide range of immersive human-machine interactive applications. However,…

cs.NI2023

Reasoning over the Air: A Reasoning-based Implicit Semantic-Aware Communication Framework

Yong Xiao, Yiwei Liao, Yingyu Li +5

Semantic-aware communication is a novel paradigm that draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of messages. It has attracted significant i…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Mathematical Characterization of Signal Semantics and Rethinking of the Mathematical Theory of Information

Guangming Shi, Dahua Gao, Shuai Ma +3

Shannon information theory is established based on probability and bits, and the communication technology based on this theory realizes the information age. The original goal of Sh…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Features Disentangled Semantic Broadcast Communication Networks

Shuai Ma, Weining Qiao, Youlong Wu +6

Single-user semantic communications have attracted extensive research recently, but multi-user semantic broadcast communication (BC) is still in its infancy. In this paper, we prop…

cs.IT2023★ 7 cited

A Theory for Semantic Channel Coding With Many-to-one Source

Shuai Ma, Chuanhui Zhang, Huayan Qi +4

As one of the potential key technologies of 6G, semantic communication is still in its infancy and there are many open problems, such as semantic entropy definition and semantic ch…

eess.SP2023

Task-oriented Explainable Semantic Communications

Shuai Ma, Weining Qiao, Youlong Wu +6

Semantic communications utilize the transceiver computing resources to alleviate scarce transmission resources, such as bandwidth and energy. Although the conventional deep learnin…

cs.LG2023★ 48 cited

Distributed Traffic Synthesis and Classification in Edge Networks: A Federated Self-supervised Learning Approach

Yong Xiao, Rong Xia, Yingyu Li +5

With the rising demand for wireless services and increased awareness of the need for data protection, existing network traffic analysis and management architectures are facing unpr…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Adversarial Learning for Implicit Semantic-Aware Communications

Zhimin Lu, Yong Xiao, Zijian Sun +5

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on recognizing and delivering the desired meaning of messages to the destination users. Most existing works in…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

Time-sensitive Learning for Heterogeneous Federated Edge Intelligence

Yong Xiao, Xiaohan Zhang, Guangming Shi +3

Real-time machine learning has recently attracted significant interest due to its potential to support instantaneous learning, adaptation, and decision making in a wide range of ap…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Imitation Learning-based Implicit Semantic-aware Communication Networks: Multi-layer Representation and Collaborative Reasoning

Yong Xiao, Zijian Sun, Guangming Shi +1

Semantic communication has recently attracted significant interest from both industry and academia due to its potential to transform the existing data-focused communication archite…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Life-long Learning for Reasoning-based Semantic Communication

Jingming Liang, Yong Xiao, Yingyu Li +2

Semantic communication is an emerging paradigm that focuses on understanding and delivering semantics, or meaning of messages. Most existing semantic communication solutions define…

cs.NI2022

Reasoning on the Air: An Implicit Semantic Communication Architecture

Yong Xiao, Yingyu Li, Guangming Shi +1

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm which draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of a message to the intended users…