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Leader-based data replication improves consistency in highly available distributed storage systems via sequential writes to the leader nodes. After a write has been committed by the leaders, follower nodes are written by a multicast…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin , Roy D. Yates

Scheduling of the transmission of status updates over an error-prone communication channel is studied in order to minimize the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the destination, under an average resource constraint at the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

In the realm of shared memory systems, the challenge of reader-writer synchronization is closely coupled with the potential for readers to access outdated updates. Read-Copy-Update (RCU) is a synchronization primitive that allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Vishakha Ramani , Jiachen Chen , Roy D. Yates

We consider a status updating system where having timely knowledge about the information source at the destination (monitor) is of utmost importance. By utilizing the age of information (AoI) metric, the freshness of status update over an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Emerging software-defined networking technologies enable more adaptive communication infrastructures, allowing for quick reactions to changes in networking requirements by exploiting the workload's temporal structure. However, operating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , Arash Pourdamghani , Stefan Schmid

A decision-maker periodically acquires information about a changing state, controlling both the timing and content of updates. I characterize optimal policies using a decomposition of the dynamic problem into optimal stopping and static…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-02 César Barilla

We consider a node-monitor pair, where updates are generated stochastically (according to a known distribution) at the node that it wishes to send to the monitor. The node is assumed to incur a fixed cost for each transmission, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source's data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Christopher Daniel , Ahmed Arafa

In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

We consider a system in which an information source generates independent and identically distributed status update packets from an observed phenomenon that takes $n$ possible values based on a given pmf. These update packets are encoded at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Melih Bastopcu , Baturalp Buyukates , Sennur Ulukus

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

We consider a real-time status update system consisting of a source-destination network. A stochastic process is observed at the source, and samples, so called status updates, are extracted at random time instances, and delivered to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

We consider the age of information in a multihop multicast network where there is a single source node sending time-sensitive updates to $n^L$ end nodes, and $L$ denotes the number of hops. In the first hop, the source node sends updates to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Baturalp Buyukates , Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we analyze the impact of information freshness on supervised learning based forecasting. In these applications, a neural network is trained to predict a time-varying target (e.g., solar power), based on multiple correlated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Heyang Qin , Lei Yang , Feng Yan , Yin Sun

In this paper, we analyze the impact of different encoding schemes on the age of information (AoI) performance in a point-to-point system, where a source generates packets based on the status updates collected from multiple sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

Age of information (AoI) is one of the key performance metrics for Internet of things (IoT) systems. Timely status updates are essential for many IoT applications; however, they are subject to strict constraints related on the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

We consider an information update system on a gossip network, where a source node encodes information into $n$ total keys such that any subset of at least $k+1$ keys can fully reconstruct the original information. This encoding process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Erkan Bayram , Melih Bastopcu , Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Tamer Başar

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