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This paper investigates an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which multiple devices are observing some object's physical parameters and then offloading their observations back to the BS in time with opportunistic channel access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Wang , Rongfei Fan

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro

Timely and informative data dissemination in communication networks is essential for enhancing system performance and energy efficiency, as it reduces the transmission of outdated or redundant data. Timeliness metrics, such as Age of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a wireless sensor network in which all the nodes wish to spread their updates over the network using CSMA/CA protocol. We investigate the age of information of the spreading process from a transmitter perspective, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mei Wang , Yunquan Dong

Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. While Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

This paper studies efficient data management and timely information dissemination for real-time monitoring of an $N$-state Markov process, enabling accurate state estimation and reliable actuation decisions. First, we analyze the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Anthony Ephremides , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

The extreme or maximum age of information (AoI) is analytically studied for wireless communication systems. In particular, a wireless powered single-antenna source node and a receiver (connected to the power grid) equipped with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Zheng Shi , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Guanghua Yang

We examine the age of information (AoI) of a status update system that incorporates energy harvesting and uses the slotted ALOHA protocol. We derive analytically the average AoI and the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro

The freshness of sensor data is critical for all types of cyber-physical systems. An established measure for quantifying data freshness is the Age-of-Information (AoI), which has been the subject of extensive research. Recently, there has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Markus Fidler , Flavio Gallistl , Jaya Prakash Champati , Joerg Widmer

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein

An optimal control problem with heterogeneous servers to minimize the average age of information (AoI) is considered. Each server maintains a separate queue, and each packet arriving to the system is randomly routed to one of the servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anhad Bhati , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Rahul Vaze

This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) in a system where physical sources produce independent discrete-time updates that are each observed by several sensors. We devise a model that is simple, but still capable to capture the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

We design and implement two variants of a practical random access protocol called WiFair, based on IEEE 802.11 and designed to mitigate spatial unfairness in Age of Information (AoI). Drawing on previous theoretical work, we modify the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Nicholas Jones , Joshua Wornell , Chao Li , Eytan Modiano

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a key metric for assessing data freshness in IoT applications, where a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a monitor. Such systems often rely on random access protocols based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

Age of information (AoI) is a time-evolving measure of information freshness, that tracks the time since the last received fresh update was generated. Analyzing peak and average AoI, two time average metrics of AoI, for various continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

A large body of applications that involve monitoring, decision making, and forecasting require timely status updates for their efficient operation. Age of Information (AoI) is a newly proposed metric that effectively captures this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis