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Iterative Semantic Decoding for Short Block Codes

This paper proposes an iteratively enhanced semantic receiver for natural-language text transmission over noisy wireless channels using multiple short block codes. At the transmitter, each sentence is permuted by a character-level interleaver, partitioned into segments, and independently encoded by short block codes. At the receiver, we develop an iterative decoder consisting of a channel decoder and a language model, where a de-interleaver between them disperses the burst decoding errors within each segment across the sentence. In each iteration, the language model denoises the channel decoding output, and the denoised characters verified to be consistent with the channel observations are fed back to the channel decoder as semantic information for the next iteration. Simulation results on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel show that the proposed receiver achieves approximately 1.5 dB block error rate (BLER) gain over conventional short-block coding, while maintaining BLEU and ROUGE scores above 99% at SNRs beyond 1.0 dB.

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Neural Network-Based Delay-Doppler-Assisted Channel Estimation for OFDM

Conventional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) channel estimation relies on single-tap estimation and time-frequency (TF) interpolation, which becomes unreliable in high-mobility channels because Doppler-induced inter-carrier interference (ICI) invalidates the underlying element-wise TF model. This paper proposes a neural-network-based delay-Doppler (DD)-assisted channel estimation framework for OFDM over doubly selective channels. We first derive an ICI-aware TF domain input-output relation and formulate channel estimation as a DD recovery problem. Unlike conventional sparse recovery approaches, the proposed framework does not require the equivalent DD domain channel vector to be strictly sparse, thereby accommodating the leakage induced by fractional delay and Doppler shifts. Since the data symbols are unknown during channel estimation, the sensing matrix is constructed using only the known pilot symbols. As a result, data-induced interference is not explicitly modeled, leading to a structured mismatch in the pilot observations. To tackle this challenge, the adopted network iteratively exchanges observation- and channel-domain features through the sensing matrix to learn the mapping from these contaminated observations to the equivalent DD domain channel, which is subsequently used to reconstruct the TF-domain channel. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves lower normalized mean-square error and bit-error rate than conventional OFDM estimators.

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