Selective Depthwise Separable Convolution for Lightweight Joint Source-Channel Coding in Wireless Image Transmission
Depthwise separable convolutional (DSConv) layers have been successfully applied to deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes to reduce computational complexity. However, a systematic investigation of the layerwise and ratio-wise replacement of standard convolutional (Conv) layers with DSConv layers in JSCC systems for wireless image transmission remains largely unexplored. In this letter, we propose a configurable lightweight JSCC framework that incorporates a selective replacement strategy, enabling flexible Conv-to-DSConv replacement at different replacement ratios and positions. By varying the replacement ratio, we obtain models with different computational complexities and analyze their impact on reconstruction performance. Furthermore, we investigate how replacements at different encoder and decoder depths influence reconstruction quality under a fixed replacement ratio. Our results show that Conv-to-DSConv replacement at the intermediate layers of the encoder and decoder achieves a favorable complexity-performance trade-off, revealing layer-wise redundancy in DL-based JSCC systems. Extensive experiments further demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves substantial parameter reduction with only slight performance degradation, enabling flexible complexity-performance trade-offs for resource-constrained edge devices.
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