Guest Editorial: Task-Oriented Communications and Networking for the Internet of Things
Yansha Deng, Yan Liu, Νικόλαος Παππάς, Jun Zhang, Yue Wang, Yue Wang · IEEE Internet of Things Magazine · 2023
Inspired by Shannon's classic information theory, the design of a communications system or architecture mainly involves three different levels, namely, (i) transmission of symbols (the tech-nical problem); (ii) semantic exchange of symbols (the seman-tic problem); (iii) effect of semantic information exchange (the effectiveness problem). Nowadays vision of the network is an enabler of pervasive intelligent services, with a strong emphasis on its effectiveness for the third level. This will push revolutionary solutions at the IoT technology, system, and architecture levels with the native adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up performance as well as save energy and resources.