Guest Editorial: Task-Oriented Communications for Future Wireless Networks

Future wireless communications aim to meet multifarious quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, personalized healthcare, and the Internet-of-Everything (IoE). In particular, in human-computer interaction scenarios, humans may simultaneously control multiple IoE devices using speech augmented/ virtual reality commands, thus, making communication pervasive small-range networks, which poses critical challenges traditional bit-oriented communications. It is important future support real-time human-to-machine machine-to-machine interactions by text, speech, image, augmented/virtual reality. To interactions, received information that ultimately matters mostly intention-dependent rather than bit-information-dependent common sense. These applications motivate development of task-oriented advanced signal processing. However, there are still many fundamental problems have not been well investigated