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When making decisions in a network, it is important to have up-to-date knowledge of the current state of the system. Obtaining this information, however, comes at a cost. In this paper, we determine the optimal finite-time update policy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Eric Graves , Jake B. Perazzone , Kevin Chan

In Internet of Things (IoT), the freshness of status updates is crucial for mission-critical applications. In this regard, it is suggested to quantify the freshness of updates by using Age of Information (AoI) from the receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xijun Wang , Wenrui Lin , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

Applications like environmental sensing, and health and activity sensing, are supported by networks of devices (nodes) that send periodic packet transmissions over the wireless channel to a sink node. We look at simple abstractions that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

This paper studies information timeliness in multi-source wireless Internet of Things (IoT) status updating systems under a truncated Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We propose a source-aware truncated ARQ (SATARQ) scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianci Zhang , Aobo Liu , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Jemin Lee , Yuquan Xiao , Mehul Motani

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

We consider an information update system on a gossip network, where a source node encodes information into $n$ total keys such that any subset of at least $k+1$ keys can fully reconstruct the original information. This encoding process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Erkan Bayram , Melih Bastopcu , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Tamer Başar

Information updates in multihop networks such as Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent transportation systems have received significant recent attention. In this paper, we minimize the age of a single information flow in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

Future real-time applications like smart cities will use complex Machine Learning (ML) models for a variety of tasks. Timely status information is required for these applications to be reliable. Offloading computation to a mobile edge cloud…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Nitya Sathyavageeswaran , Roy D. Yates , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan Mandayam

Motivated by the inherent value of packets arising in many cyber-physical applications (e.g., due to precision of the information content or an alarm message), we consider status update systems with update packets carrying values as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

Timely sampling and fresh information delivery are important in 6G communications. This is achieved by encoding samples into short packets/codewords for transmission, with potential decoding errors. We consider a broadcasting base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Sumanth S Raikar , Rajshekhar V Bhat

A two-hop energy harvesting communication network is considered, in which measurement updates are transmitted by a source to a destination through an intermediate relay. Updates are to be sent in a timely fashion that minimizes the age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ahmed Arafa , Sennur Ulukus

Age of Information is an interesting metric that captures the freshness of information in the underlying applications. It is a combination of both packets inter-arrival time and packet transmission delay. In recent times, advanced real-time…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

The problem of reducing the age-of-information has been extensively studied in the single-hop networks. In this paper, we minimize the age-of-information in general multihop networks. If the packet transmission times over the network links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In a communication setting where multiple sources share a single channel to provide status updates to a remote monitor, source transmissions need to be scheduled appropriately to maintain timely communication between each of the sources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

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

This paper investigates the information freshness of two-hop networks. Age of information (AoI) is used as the metric to characterize the information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the latest received status update was…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Jian Feng , Haoyuan Pan , Tse-Tin Chan , Jiaxin Liang

This paper is motivated by emerging edge computing systems which consist of sensor nodes that acquire and process information and then transmit status updates to an edge receiver for possible further processing. As power is a scarce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Parisa Rafiee , Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

In this work, we study age-optimal scheduling with stability constraints in a multiple access channel with two heterogeneous source nodes transmitting to a common destination. The first node is connected to a power grid and it has randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

For status update systems operating over unreliable energy-constrained wireless channels, we address Weaver's long-standing Level-C question: do my packets actually improve the plant's behavior? Each fresh sample carries a stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Youssef Ahmed , Arnob Ghosh , Chih-Chun Wang , Ness B. Shroff