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Received samples of a stochastic process are processed by a server for delivery as updates to a monitor. Each sample belongs to a class that specifies a distribution for its processing time and a function that describes how the value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness. AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We consider the problem of minimizing average and peak AoI in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

In the status update system, the freshness of information is drawing more and more attention. To measure the freshness of the data, age-of-synchronization (AoS) is introduced. Since many communication devices are energy-constrained, how to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Jiajie Huang , Jie Gong

In this paper, we consider transmission scheduling in a status update system, where updates are generated periodically and transmitted over a Gilbert-Elliott fading channel. The goal is to minimize the long-run average age of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

Consider an energy harvesting (EH) sensor that continuously monitors a system and sends time-stamped status update to a destination. The sensor harvests energy from nature and uses it to power its updating operations. The destination keeps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

We consider a slotted communication system consisting of a source, a cache, a user and a timestomping adversary. The time horizon consists of total $T$ time slots, such that the source transmits update packets to the user directly over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Subhankar Banerjee , Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

We study age of information in a multiple source-multiple destination setting with a focus on its scaling in large wireless networks. There are $n$ nodes that are randomly paired with each other on a fixed area to form $n$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Baturalp Buyukates , Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

We investigate information accuracy in timeliness-based gossip networks where the source evolves according to a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) with $M$ states and disseminates status updates to a network of $n$ nodes. In addition to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Emirhan Tekez , Melih Bastopcu , Sinan Gezici

We consider a cache updating system with a source, a cache and a user. There are $n$ files. The source keeps the freshest version of the files which are updated with known rates $\lambda_i$. The cache downloads and keeps the freshest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

A gossip network is considered in which a source node updates its status while other nodes in the network aim at keeping track of it as it varies over time. Information gets disseminated by the source sending status updates to the nodes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

Consistency in data storage systems requires any read operation to return the most recent written version of the content. In replicated storage systems, consistency comes at the price of delay due to large-scale write and read operations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jing Zhong , Roy D. Yates , Emina Soljanin

We consider a G/G/1 queueing system with a single server, where updates arrive from different sources stochastically with possibly different update inter-generation time distributions. The server can transmit/serve at most one update at any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

We consider a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. A stochastic process is observed at the source, where samples are extracted at random time instances, and delivered to the destination, thus,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Age of Information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas

We consider a network consisting of a single source and $n$ receiver nodes that are grouped into $m$ equal size communities, i.e., clusters, where each cluster includes $k$ nodes and is served by a dedicated cluster head. The source node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Baturalp Buyukates , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus