Alleviating Distortion Accumulation in Multi-Hop Semantic Communication

22 Aug 2023  ·  Guangyi Zhang, Qiyu Hu, Yunlong Cai, Guanding Yu ·

Recently, semantic communication has been investigated to boost the performance of end-to-end image transmission systems. However, existing semantic approaches are generally based on deep learning and belong to lossy transmission. Consequently, as the receiver continues to transmit received images to another device, the distortion of images accumulates with each transmission. Unfortunately, most recent advances overlook this issue and only consider single-hop scenarios, where images are transmitted only once from a transmitter to a receiver. In this letter, we propose a novel framework of a multi-hop semantic communication system. To address the problem of distortion accumulation, we introduce a novel recursive training method for the encoder and decoder of semantic communication systems. Specifically, the received images are recursively input into the encoder and decoder to retrain the semantic communication system. This empowers the system to handle distorted received images and achieve higher performance. Our extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods significantly alleviate distortion accumulation in multi-hop semantic communication.

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