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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm for real-time applications with intensive computational needs (e.g., autonomous driving), as it can reduce the processing delay. In this work, we focus on the timeliness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

Due to the flexibility and low operational cost, dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect information from distributed sensors is expected to be a promising solution in Internet of Things (IoT), especially for time-critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Bo Bai

This paper considers an uplink Internet of Things system with synchronous periodic traffic, where multiple devices generate their status updates at the beginning of each global frame and attempt to send them to a common access point. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yijin Zhang

In many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the freshness of the is an important design criterion. Age of Information (AoI) quantifies the freshness of the received information or status update. This work considers a setup of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Eslam Eldeeb , Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana , Dian Echevarría Pérez , Mohammad Shehab , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Hirley Alves

Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

The age of information (AoI) is used to measure the freshness of the data. In IoT networks, the traditional resource management schemes rely on a message exchange between the devices and the base station (BS) before communication which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

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

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

Age of information (AoI) is gaining attention as a valuable performance metric for many IoT systems, in which a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a central gateway. This is the case, for instance, of remote sensing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Andrea Munari

Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the topic has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hasan Burhan Beytur , Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

To support emerging real-time monitoring and control applications, the timeliness of computation results is of critical importance to mobile-edge computing (MEC) systems. We propose a performance metric called age of task (AoT) based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Yunzheng Tao , Baoling Liu , Ping Zhang

In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang

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 consider a wireless communication network with an adaptive scheme to select the number of packets to be admitted and encoded for each transmission, and characterize the information timeliness. For a network of erasure channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Maice Costa , Yalin Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Muriel Médard

In cyber-physical systems, as in 5G and beyond, multiple physical processes require timely online monitoring at a remote device. There, the received information is used to estimate current and future process values. When transmitting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefan Roth , Ahmed Arafa , H. Vincent Poor , Aydin Sezgin

The time average expected age of information (AoI) is studied for status updates sent over an error-prone channel from an energy-harvesting transmitter with a finite-capacity battery. Energy cost of sensing new status updates is taken into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

This work studies a real-time environment monitoring scenario in the industrial Internet of things, where wireless sensors proactively collect environmental data and transmit it to the controller. We adopt the notion of risk-sensitivity in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yung-Lin Hsu , Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Hung-Yu Wei , Mehdi Bennis

In this letter, we propose reliable covert communications with the aim of minimizing age of information (AoI) in the time-varying channels. We named the time duration that channel state information (CSI) is valid as a new metric, as age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shima Salar Hosseini , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari