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In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the age of information in a multi-source system, where samples are taken from multiple sources and sent to a destination via a channel with random delay. Due to interference, only one…

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We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

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In this paper, we propose a new measure for the freshness of information, which uses the mutual information between the real-time source value and the delivered samples at the receiver to quantify the freshness of the information contained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

In this paper, we study the design of an optimal transmission policy for remote state estimation over packet-dropping wireless channels with imperfect channel state information. A smart sensor uses a Kalman filter to estimate the system…

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We consider the problem of transmission scheduling for the remote estimation of a discrete-time autoregressive Markov process that is driven by white Gaussian noise. A sensor observes this process, and then decides to either encode the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Manali Dutta , Rahul Singh

In this paper, we study how to take samples at a data source for improving the freshness of received data samples at a remote receiver. We use non-linear functions of the age of information to measure data freshness, and provide a survey of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

We study the remote estimation of a linear Gaussian system over a channel that wears out over time and with every use. The sensor can either transmit a fresh measurement in the current time slot, restore the channel quality at the cost of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiping Luo , George Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider the problem of minimizing the time average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information constraints (AoI). Errors in the transmission may occur and the…

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In this work, we consider the problem of jointly minimizing the average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information (AoI) constraints. Errors in the transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Joint optimization of scheduling and estimation policies is considered for a system with two sensors and two non-collocated estimators. Each sensor produces an independent and identically distributed sequence of random variables, and each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Marcos M. Vasconcelos , Mukul Gagrani , Ashutosh Nayyar , Urbashi Mitra

We consider a multi-process remote estimation system observing $K$ independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. In this system, a shared sensor samples the $K$ processes in such a way that the long-term average sum mean square error (MSE) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Karim Banawan , Ahmed Arafa , Karim G. Seddik

In this work, we study a status update system with a source node sending timely information to the destination through a channel with random delay. We measure the timeliness of the information stored at the receiver via the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jingzhou Sun , Jian Song

We address the problem of how to optimally schedule data packets over an unreliable channel in order to minimize the estimation error of a simple-to-implement remote linear estimator using a constant "Kalman'' gain to track the state of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Rahul Singh , Gopal Krishna Kamath , P. R. Kumar

This paper studies efficient data management and timely information dissemination for real-time monitoring of an $N$-state Markov process, enabling accurate state estimation and reliable actuation decisions. First, we analyze the Age of…

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We develop a novel source coding strategy for sampling and monitoring of a Wiener process. For the encoding process, we employ a four level ``quantization'' scheme, which employs monotone function thresholds as opposed to fixed constant…

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We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper studies remote state estimation in the presence of an eavesdropper. A sensor transmits local state estimates over a packet dropping link to a remote estimator, while an eavesdropper can successfully overhear each sensor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Alex S. Leong , Daniel E. Quevedo , Daniel Dolz , Subhrakanti Dey

This letter provides query-age-optimal joint sampling and transmission scheduling policies for a heterogeneous status update system, consisting of a stochastic arrival and a generate-at-will source, with an unreliable channel. Our main goal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this work, we study the problem of real-time tracking and reconstruction of an information source with the purpose of actuation. A device monitors an $N$-state Markov process and transmits status updates to a receiver over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

Consider a remote estimation problem where a sensor wants to communicate the state of an uncertain source to a remote estimator over a finite time horizon. The uncertain source is modeled as an autoregressive process with bounded noise.…

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