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The freshness or timeliness of data at server is a significant key performance indicator of sensor networks, especially in tolerance critical applications such as factory automation. As an effective and intuitive measurement to data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yulin hu , Hans D. Schotten

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

We propose and evaluate age of information (AoI)-aware multiple access mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT) in multi-relay two-hop networks. The network considered comprises end devices (EDs) communicating with a set of relays in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Felippe Moraes Pereira , João Luiz Rebelatto , Richard Demo Souza , Onel Alcaraz López

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

We consider a wireless network with a base station serving multiple traffic streams to different destinations. Packets from each stream arrive to the base station according to a stochastic process and are enqueued in a separate (per stream)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Igor Kadota , Eytan Modiano

This paper investigates the tradeoff between the average age of information (AoI) and the transmission cost for networks with stochastic packet arrival and random erasure channel. Specifically, we model the resource-constrained AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yonghao Ji , Xiaoli Xu

Age of Information (AoI) is a newly appeared concept and metric to characterize the freshness of data. In this work, we study the delay and AoI in a multiple access channel (MAC) with two source nodes transmitting different types of data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

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

This paper revisits the problem of sampling and transmitting status updates through a channel with random delay under a sampling frequency constraint \cite{sun_17_tit}. We use the Age of Information (AoI) to characterize the status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Pengkun Yang , Leandros Tassiulas

Age of Information (AoI) has proven to be a useful metric in networked systems where timely information updates are of importance. In the literature, minimizing "average age" has received considerable attention. However, various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Information (AoI), which measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet at the destination, is a new metric for real-time status update tracking applications. In this paper, we consider a status-update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

The paper deals with Age of Information (AoI) in a network of multiple sources and parallel queues with buffering capabilities, preemption in service and losses in served packets. The queues do not communicate between each other and the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Josu Doncel , Mohamad Assaad

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

In recent years, optimization of the success transmission probability in wireless cache-enabled networks has been studied extensively. However, few works have concerned about the real-time performance of the cache-enabled networks. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Le Yang , Yi Zhong , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

The Age-of-Information (AoI) is a new performance metric recently proposed for measuring the freshness of information in information-update systems. In this work, we conduct a systematic and comparative study to investigate the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zhongdong Liu , Liang Huang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

Information exchange over networks can be affected by various forms of delay. This causes challenges for using the network by a multi-agent system to solve a distributed optimisation problem. Distributed optimisation schemes, however,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Adrian Redder , Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Holger Karl

Age of Information (AoI) is studied in two-user broadcast networks with feedback, and lower and upper bounds are derived on the expected weighted sum AoI of the users. In particular, a class of simple coding actions is considered and within…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Xingran Chen , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti