3 papers
cs.IT2026
Significance-Driven Semantic Communication
Christian McDowell, Andrea Panebianco, Sirin Chakraborty +1
In this paper, we study a significance-driven cross- layer semantic communication design problem. Based on sta- tistical decision theory, we introduce an information-theoretic meas…
cs.LG2026
SafeStep: An Interactive Demonstration of Semantic Communication for Pedestrian Safety Monitoring
Christian McDowell, Andrea Panebianco, Jeremiah Yang +4
In this paper, we develop SafeStep, an interactive browser-based semantic communication platform for live pedestrian safety monitoring. SafeStep extracts pedestrian information fro…
cs.NI2026
Adaptive Underwater Acoustic Communications with Limited Feedback: An AoI-Aware Hierarchical Bandit Approach
Fabio Busacca, Andrea Panebianco, Yin Sun
Underwater Acoustic (UWA) networks are vital for remote sensing and ocean exploration but face inherent challenges such as limited bandwidth, long propagation delays, and highly dy…