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Age of information is a new network performance metric that captures the freshness of information at end-users. This paper studies the age of information from a scheduling perspective. To that end, we consider a wireless broadcast network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Yu-Pin Hsu , Eytan Modiano , Lingjie Duan

In this paper we consider the age of information (AoI) of a status updating system with a relay, where the updates are delivered to destination either from the direct line or the two-hop link via the relay. An updating packet generated at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Jixiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu

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

This paper investigates the age of information (AoI) for a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) enabled network, where a sensor first scavenges energy from a wireless power station and then transmits the collected status update to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yang Lu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief

We focus on a slotted ALOHA system without feedback, in which nodes transmit time-stamped updates to a common gateway. Departing from the classical generate-at-will model, we assume that each transmitter may not always have fresh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Andrea Munari

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

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

Data collected and transmitted by Internet of things (IoT) devices are typically used for control and monitoring purposes; and hence, their timely delivery is of utmost importance for the underlying applications. However, IoT devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

This paper investigates data compression that simultaneously allows local decoding and local update. The main result is a universal compression scheme for memoryless sources with the following features. The rate can be made arbitrarily…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Shashank Vatedka , Aslan Tchamkerten

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

In Internet of Things (IoT), the decision timeliness of time-sensitive applications is jointly affected by the statistics of update process and decision process. This work considers an update-and-decision system with a Poisson-arrival…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shutong Chen , Tianci Zhang , Zhengchuan Chen , Yunquan Dong , Min Wang , Yunjian Jia , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider a status update system consisting of one source, one server, and one sink. The source generates packets according to a Poisson process and the packets are served according to a generally distributed service time. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mohammad Moltafet , Hamid R. Sadjadpour , Zouheir Rezki , Marian Codreanu , Roy D. Yates

The Slepian-Wolf (SW) coding system is a source coding system with two encoders and a decoder, where these encoders independently encode source sequences from two correlated sources into codewords, and the decoder reconstructs both source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Tetsunao Matsuta , Tomohiko Uyematsu

This work is motivated by the need of collecting fresh data from power-constrained sensors in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network. A recently proposed metric, the Age of Information (AoI) is adopted to measure data freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Consider a general quantum stochastic source that emits at discrete time steps quantum pure states which are chosen from a finite alphabet according to some probability distribution which may depend on the whole history. Also, fix two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 George Androulakis , Rabins Wosti

This work introduces a framework for analyzing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a real-time monitoring system with a generic discrete-time Markov source. We study a noisy communication system employing a hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

Timely sampling and fresh information delivery are important in 6G communications. This is achieved by encoding samples into short packets/codewords for transmission, with potential decoding errors. We consider a broadcasting base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Sumanth S Raikar , Rajshekhar V Bhat

The objects of study of this paper are communication channels in which the dominant type of noise are symbol shifts, the main motivating examples being timing and bit-shift channels. Two channel models are introduced and their zero-error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Miloš Stojaković , Vincent Y. F. Tan