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With the development of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) becomes a major trend in the next-generation networks. However, due to the instability of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Boran Wang , Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Qihui Wu

In this letter, we analyze a terrestrial wireless communication network assisted by an aerial intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). We consider a packet scheduling problem at the ground base station (BS) aimed at improving the information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Songjie Yang , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we consider the fair access problem and the Age of Information (AoI) under 5G New Radio (NR) Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Mode 2 in vehicular networks. Specifically, vehicles follow Mode 2 to communicate with Roadside…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xiao Xu , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Kezhi Wang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

We investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to intended receivers over shared spectrum. We establish an analytical framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Utilizing autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown great advantages over preceding methods in support of urgent scenarios such as search and rescue (SAR) and wildfire detection. In these operations, search efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Rushiv Arora , Saeede Enayati , Hossein Pishro-Nik

In this paper, we aim to design an optimal sampler for a system in which fresh samples of a signal (source) are sent through an unreliable channel to a remote estimator, and acknowledgments are sent back over a feedback channel. Both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jiayu Pan , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Cuong Le , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu

Age of Information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been emerging as an effective solution for IoT data collection networks thanks to their outstanding flexibility, mobility, and low operation costs. However, due to the limited energy and uncertainty from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

This paper considers a large-scale wireless network consisting of source-destination (SD) pairs, where the sources send time-sensitive information, termed status updates, to their corresponding destinations in a time-slotted fashion. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Praful D. Mankar , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper, we study the trajectory optimization of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to sense the location of a target while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Due to their inherent flexibility and autonomous operation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) to provide real-time biomedical edge computing service for wireless body area network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Siqi Mu , Shuo Wen , Yang Lu , Ruihong Jiang , Bo Ai

There is a growing interest in analysing the freshness of data in networked systems. Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a popular metric to quantify this freshness at a given destination. There has been a significant research effort in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jaya Prakash Champati , Ramana R. Avula , Tobias J. Oechtering , James Gross

We consider a wireless broadcast network with a base station sending time-sensitive information to a number of clients through unreliable channels. The Age of Information (AoI), namely the amount of time that elapsed since the most recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Igor Kadota , Abhishek Sinha , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Rahul Singh , Eytan Modiano

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are seen as a promising technology to perform a wide range of tasks in wireless communication networks. In this work, we consider the deployment of a group of UAVs to collect the data generated by IoT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing the age-of-information (AoI) and transmit power consumption in a vehicular network, where a roadside unit (RSU) provides timely updates about a set of physical processes to vehicles. Each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ahmed Al-Habob , Hina Tabassum , Omer Waqar

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) when the communication channel has a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Age of Information (AoI) has become a vital performance metric for evaluating the freshness of information in communication systems. Although many studies aim to minimize the average AoI of the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cui Zhang , Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

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