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The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the demand for data-driven real-time services. These services are fueled by emerging applications that require rapidly injecting data streams and computing updated analytics results…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Zhongdong Liu , Bo Ji

In 5G and beyond communication systems, the notion of latency gets great momentum in wireless connectivity as a metric for serving real-time communications requirements. However, in many applications, research has pointed out that latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging next-generation technology in the fourth industrial revolution. In industrial IoT networks, sensing devices are largely deployed to monitor various types of physical processes. They are required…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zijing Wang , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

In status update scenarios, the freshness of information is measured in terms of age-of-information (AoI), which essentially reflects the timeliness for real-time applications to transmit status update messages to a remote controller. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

We consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where a server transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. We apply a recently proposed metric, named age of information (AoI), to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Mobile edge computing mitigates the shortcomings of cloud computing caused by unpredictable wide-area network latency and serves as a critical enabling technology for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Unlike cloud computing, mobile…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yukun Sun , Wenbo Wang , Bo Lei

This paper investigates the benefits of integrating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on minimizing the average sum age of information (AoI) in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ali Muhammad , Mohamed Elhattab , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Chadi Assi

The widespread adoption of age of information (AoI) as a meaningful and analytically tractable information freshness metric has led to a wide body of work on the timing performance of Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, the spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Federico Chiariotti , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

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

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

With the ever-growing need of data in HPC applications, the congestion at the I/O level becomes critical in super-computers. Architectural enhancement such as burst-buffers and pre-fetching are added to machines, but are not sufficient to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Guillaume Aupy , Ana Gainaru , Valentin Le Fèvre

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

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

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

This work explores systems where source updates require multiple sequential processing steps. We model and analyze the Age of Information (AoI) performance of various system designs under both parallel and series server setups. In parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Vishakha Ramani , Ivan Seskar , Roy D. Yates

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haosheng He , Jianpeng Qi , Chao Liu , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to the space arena, also known as non-terrestrial networks. Several IoT satellite applications for tracking ships and cargo can be seen as exemplary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Collaborative perception is a cornerstone of intelligent connected vehicles, enabling them to share and integrate sensory data to enhance situational awareness. However, measuring the impact of high transmission delay and inconsistent delay…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ziyong Wu , Zhilin Peng , Lei Yu

We consider a G/G/1 queueing system with a single server, where updates arrive from different sources stochastically with possibly different update inter-generation time distributions. The server can transmit/serve at most one update at any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze