Modeling and Performance Analysis for Semantic Communications Based on Empirical Results
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Apr 29, 2025
Abstract
Due to the black-box characteristics of deep learning based semantic encoders
and decoders, finding a tractable method for the performance analysis of
semantic communications is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an
Alpha-Beta-Gamma (ABG) formula to model the relationship between the end-to-end
measurement and SNR, which can be applied for both image reconstruction tasks
and inference tasks. Specifically, for image reconstruction tasks, the proposed
ABG formula can well fit the commonly used DL networks, such as SCUNet, and
Vision Transformer, for semantic encoding with the multi scale-structural
similarity index measure (MS-SSIM) measurement. Furthermore, we find that the
upper bound of the MS-SSIM depends on the number of quantized output bits of
semantic encoders, and we also propose a closed-form expression to fit the
relationship between the MS-SSIM and quantized output bits. To the best of our
knowledge, this is the first theoretical expression between end-to-end
performance metrics and SNR for semantic communications. Based on the proposed
ABG formula, we investigate an adaptive power control scheme for semantic
communications over random fading channels, which can effectively guarantee
quality of service (QoS) for semantic communications, and then design the
optimal power allocation scheme to maximize the energy efficiency of the
semantic communication system. Furthermore, by exploiting the bisection
algorithm, we develop the power allocation scheme to maximize the minimum QoS
of multiple users for OFDMA downlink semantic communication Extensive
simulations verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed ABG
formula and power allocation schemes.
