Stochastic Geometry-Based Semantic Performance Analysis for Text Semantic Communication

Heng Zhu, Kun Zhu, Yang Zhang, Dusit Niyato

Abstract: Semantic communication has recently garnered substantial attention due to its potential to alleviate bandwidth constraints and improve network capacity. Nonetheless, existing studies primarily concentrate on network architecture and overlook the communication performance analysis. Therefore, this paper seeks to derive semantic-oriented error probability. Specifically, we develop a novel text semantic communication framework that comprises distinct semantic and physical layers. In the semantic layer, we employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to extract text topics and evaluate the topic distribution. Given an expected transmission accuracy, we propose a dichotomy to determine the minimal number of topics. These acquired topics, along with their respective distributions, are defined as the text semantic features. In the physical layer, the semantic features are encoded into a binary sequence and modulated with conventional methods. The relationship between the semantic and physical layers is uncover by associating coding of the semantic features with the symbol error probability (SEP). Considering a scenario wherein base stations (BSs) following a specific Poisson point process (PPP), we derive the approximate SEP and semantic inference error probability (SIEP) for multiple coding strategies. Simulation results show that the proposed text semantic communication network enables effective text transmission and the derived error probability accurately reflect the performance of an actual communication system.

External IDs:dblp:journals/tcom/ZhuZZN25