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We consider an energy harvesting sensor that is sending measurement updates regarding some physical phenomenon to a destination. The sensor relies on energy harvested from nature to measure and send its updates, and is equipped with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus

The study of optimal preemption policies for status update systems has been a recurring topic in the age of information (AoI) literature, where threshold-based structures have been shown to be optimal under a generate-at-will update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Age of Information is a measure of the freshness of status updates in monitoring applications and update-based systems. We study a real-time remote sensing scenario with a sensor which is restricted by time-varying energy constraints and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu

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 information provider (transmitter) as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

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

The timeliness of status message delivery in communications networks is subjective to time-varying wireless channel transmissions. In this paper, we investigate the age of information (AoI) of each source in a multi-source M/G/1 queueing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar , Aresh Dadlani , Masoumeh Moradian , Ahmad Khonsari , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

The age of information minimization problems has been extensively studied in Real-time monitoring applications frameworks. In this paper, we consider the problem of monitoring the states of unknown remote source that evolves according to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad

In this paper we analyze the distribution of the Age of Information (AoI) of a tagged data stream sharing a processor with a set of other data streams. We do so in the highly general setting in which the interarrival times pertaining to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yoshiaki Inoue , Michel Mandjes

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 effective operation of time-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications requires real-time reporting of fresh status information of underlying physical processes. In this paper, a real-time IoT monitoring system is considered, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

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 show how to calculate the Age of Information in an overtake-free network of quasi-reversible queues, with exponential exogenous interarrivals of multiple classes of update packets and exponential service times at all nodes. Results are…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Ioannis Koukoutsidis

We consider a mobile network where a mobile device is running an application that requires timely information. The information at the device can be updated by downloading the latest information through neighboring access points. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Yi-Hsuan Tseng , Yu-Pin Hsu

A versatile scheduling problem to model a three-way tradeoff between delay/age, distortion, and energy is considered. The considered problem called the age and quality of information (AQI) is to select which packets to transmit at each time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Nived Rajaraman , Rahul Vaze , Goonwanth Reddy

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for quantifying the freshness of information from the UE's perspective in a communication network. Recently, Kadota et al. [1] have proposed an index-type approximately optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Arunabh Srivastava , Abhishek Sinha , Krishna Jagannathan

In multi-source status update systems, sources need to be scheduled appropriately to maintain timely communication between each of the sources and the monitor. A cyclic schedule is an age-agnostic schedule in which the sources are served…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Wireless powered mobile edge computing has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to enhance the computation capability of low-power wireless devices in Industrial Internet of Things. An efficient resource scheduling method is critical yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Hao Wu , Hui Tian , Shaoshuai Fan , Jiazhi Ren

A sensor node that is sending measurement updates regarding some physical phenomenon to a destination is considered. The sensor relies on energy harvested from nature to transmit its updates, and is equipped with a finite $B$-sized battery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

We study a status update system with a source, a sampler, a transmitter, and a monitor. The source governs a stochastic process that the monitor wants to observe in a timely manner. To achieve this, the sampler samples fresh update packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Subhankar Banerjee , Sennur Ulukus

The proliferation of mobile devices and real-time status updating applications has motivated the optimization of data freshness in the context of age of information (AoI). Meanwhile, increasing computational demands have inspired research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mengqiu Zhou , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Roy D. Yates