Task-Oriented Communications for Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract: In the last few years, there is spur of activity around task-oriented or semantic approaches towards designing communication systems. This area was inspired while attempting to include the semantic and effectiveness layers of information on top of the traditional technical layer of the Shannon framework. This talk introduces key concepts by distinguishing between the two main approaches, namely semantic and task-oriented design. Subsequently, we present some recent results on task-oriented compression/source coding for multi-agent systems which can effectively capture a wide range of modern cyberphysical systems. We conclude by describing the steps and open research topics that can lead to a holistic design of task-oriented communication systems.

Symeon Chatzinotas (MEng, MSc, PhD, FIEEE) is currently Full Professor / Chief Scientist I and Head of the research group SIGCOM in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. In parallel, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Collaborating Scholar of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”.