The traditional role of a communication engineer is to address the technical problem of transporting bits reliably over a noisy channel. With the emergence of 5G, and the availability of a variety of competing and coexisting wireless systems, wireless connectivity is becoming a commodity. This article argues that communication engineers in the post-5G era should extend the scope of their activity in terms of design objectives and constraints beyond connectivity to encompass the semantics of the transferred bits within the given applications and use cases. To provide a platform for semantic-aware connectivity solutions, this paper introduces the concept of a semantic-effectiveness (SE) plane as a core part of future communication architectures. The SE plane augments the protocol stack by providing standardized interfaces that enable information filtering and direct control of functionalities at all layers of the protocol stack. The advantages of the SE plane are described in the perspective of recent developments in 5G, and illustrated through a number of example applications. The introduction of a SE plane may help replacing the current “next-G paradigm” in wireless evolution with a framework based on continuous improvements and extensions of the systems and standards.

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后 5G 无线连接的语义有效性过滤和控制

通信工程师的传统角色是解决在嘈杂信道上可靠传输比特的技术问题。随着 5G 的出现，以及各种相互竞争和共存的无线系统的出现，无线连接正在成为一种商品。本文认为，后 5G 时代的通信工程师应该将他们的活动范围扩展到连接之外的设计目标和约束，以涵盖给定应用程序和用例中传输比特的语义。为了为语义感知连接解决方​​案提供一个平台，本文引入了语义有效性 (SE) 平面的概念，作为未来通信架构的核心部分。SE 平面通过提供标准化接口来增强协议栈，这些接口支持信息过滤和对协议栈所有层的功能的直接控制。从 5G 的最新发展角度描述了 SE 平面的优势，并通过许多示例应用进行了说明。SE 平面的引入可能有助于用基于系统和标准的不断改进和扩展的框架取代当前无线演进中的“下一代范式”。