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In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

Internet of Things (IoT) has been emerging as one of the use cases permeating our daily lives in 5th Generation wireless networks, where status update packages are usually required to be timely delivered for many IoT based intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information is a new concept that characterizes the freshness of information at end devices. This paper studies the age of information from a scheduling perspective. We consider a wireless broadcast network where a base-station…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Yu-Pin Hsu

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. While Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

Freshness of status update packets is essential for enabling services where a destination needs the most recent measurements of various sensors. In this paper, we study the information freshness of single-server multi-source queueing models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

This paper considers a communication system where a source sends time-sensitive information to its destination. We assume that both arrival and service processes of the messages are memoryless and the source has a single server with no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashirwad Sinha , Praful D. Mankar , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Consider a network where a wireless base station (BS) connects multiple source-destination pairs. Packets from each source are generated according to a renewal process and are enqueued in a single-packet queue that stores only the freshest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

In this research, we study the information freshness in M/G/1 queueing system with a single buffer and the server taking multiple vacations. This system has wide applications in communication systems. We aim to evaluate the information…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Jin Xu , I-Hong Hou , Natarajan Gautam

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

Age-of-information is a novel performance metric in communication systems to indicate the freshness of the latest received data, which has wide applications in monitoring and control scenarios. Another important performance metric in these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

A source submits status updates to a network for delivery to a destination monitor. Updates follow a route through a series of network nodes. Each node is a last-come-first-served queue supporting preemption in service. We characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Roy D. Yates

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

The Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically assume that packets enter the monitored system with zero age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fernando Miguelez , Urtzi Ayesta , Josu Doncel , Maria Dolores Ugarte