Encoding and decoding techniques associated with semantic encoding

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques that enable simplified encoding operations, decoding operations, or both, by a wireless communication device, such as a user equipment (UE) or a base station. In an example, the wireless communication device may use a medium access control layer (MAC) to inspect packets. If two inspected packets indicate different encoding processes, including at least one semantic encoding process, the MAC layer may avoid assigning the packets to the same MAC packet data unit (PDU) (also referred to as multiplexing the packets) and may instead assign the packets to different MAC PDUs. In an alternative implementation of the first example, packets associated with different encoding processes may be assigned to different radio bearers, and the MAC layer may avoiding assigning the packets to the same MAC PDU in accordance with the packets being associated with the different radio bearers.

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