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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

We consider a slotted-time system with a transmitter-receiver pair. In the system, a transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through a communication channel. We assume that the channel is error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

The age of incorrect information (AoII) process which keeps track of the time since the source and monitor processes are in sync, has been extensively used in remote estimation problems. In this paper, we consider a push-based remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging next-generation technology in the fourth industrial revolution. In industrial IoT networks, sensing devices are largely deployed to monitor various types of physical processes. They are required…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zijing Wang , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

Minimization of the expected value of age of information (AoI) is a risk-neutral approach, and it thus cannot capture rare, yet critical, events with potentially large AoI. In order to capture the effect of these events, in this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Petar Popovski

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

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

We examine the age of information (AoI) of a status update system that incorporates energy harvesting and uses the slotted ALOHA protocol. We derive analytically the average AoI and the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro

As development Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) technology and demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increase, there is a growing need for real-time data and communication by vehicle users. Traditional request-based methods face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Ke Xiong

We consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where a server transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. We apply a recently proposed metric, named age of information (AoI), to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the topic has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hasan Burhan Beytur , Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

Age of Information (AoI) is a recently defined quantity, which measures the freshness of information in a communication scheme. In this paper, we analyze a network that consists of a sensor node, an energy source and a receiver. The energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Navid Nouri , Darya Ardan , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi

We consider an information updating system where an information provider and an information receiver engage in an update process over time. Different from the existing literature where updates are countable (hard) and take effect either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

Age-of-Information (AoI), or simply age, which measures the data freshness, is essential for real-time Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, energy saving is urgently required by many energy-constrained IoT devices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jie Gong , Jianhang Zhu , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

We consider a scenario where a monitor is interested in being up to date with respect to the status of some system which is not directly accessible to this monitor. However, we assume a source node has access to the status and can send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser

This paper investigates the average age of information (AoI) minimization in status update systems in which the update packets are transmitted with fixed rate. It is assumed that the source avoids queue-induced delay by generating and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Deli Qiao , M. Cenk Gursoy

We study a general setting of status updating systems in which a set of source nodes provide status updates about some physical process(es) to a set of monitors. The freshness of information available at each monitor is quantified in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider an information update system where an information receiver requests updates from an information provider in order to minimize its age of information. The updates are generated at the transmitter as a result of completing a set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

Status update systems require the timely collection of sensing information for which deploying multiple sensors/servers to obtain diversity gains is considered as a promising solution. In this work, we construct an absorbing Markov chain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yifan Feng , Nail Akar , Zhengchuan Chen , Mehul Motani

We investigate the age of information (AoI) of a relay-assisted cooperative communication system, where a source node sends status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible with the aid of a relay node. For time-slotted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyuan Pan , Jian Feng , Tse-Tin Chan , Victor C. M. Leung , Jianqiang Li