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Age of Information is a newly introduced metric, getting vivid attention for measuring the freshness of information in real-time networks. This parameter has evolved to guarantee the reception of timely information from the latest status…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

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

We consider networked sources that generate update messages with a defined rate and we investigate the age of that information at the receiver. Typical applications are in cyber-physical systems that depend on timely sensor updates. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Mahsa Noroozi , Markus Fidler

In this paper, we consider a status update system, in which update packets are sent to the destination via a wireless medium that allows for multiple rates, where a higher rate also naturally corresponds to a higher error probability. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

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

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) 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

In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Sastry Kompella , Ness B. Shroff

In applications of remote sensing, estimation, and control, timely communication is not always ensured by high-rate communication. This work proposes distributed age-efficient transmission policies for random access channels with $M$…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xingran Chen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Age of Information (AoI), measures the time elapsed since the last received information packet was generated at the source. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for single-hop flows in a wireless network, under pairwise interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

We consider a cognitive shared access scheme consisting of a high priority primary node and a low priority network with $N$ secondary nodes accessing the spectrum. Assuming bursty traffic at the primary node, saturated queues at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

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

Having timely and fresh knowledge about the current state of information sources is critical in a variety of applications. In particular, a status update may arrive at the destination later than its generation time due to processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

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

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

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

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano