Secure Digital Semantic Communications: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Opportunities
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Semantic communication prioritizes task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery.
- •Digital SemCom, using discrete bits/symbols, offers stronger compatibility with real-world systems.
- •Digital SemCom introduces new vulnerabilities related to modulation and packet delivery.
- •The paper provides a systematic analysis of the threat landscape for digital SemCom.
- •Open research directions are outlined for secure and deployable digital SemCom systems.
“Digital SemCom typically represents semantic information over a finite alphabet through explicit digital modulation, following two main routes: probabilistic modulation and deterministic modulation.”