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In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

Multiple sources submit updates to a monitor through an M/M/1 queue. A stochastic hybrid system (SHS) approach is used to derive the average age of information (AoI) for an individual source as a function of the offered load of that source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

In applications of remote sensing, estimation, and control, timely communication is not always ensured by high-rate communication. This work proposes distributed age-efficient transmission policies for random access channels with $M$…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xingran Chen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Most existing stochastic models on age of information (AoI) focus on a single shared server serving status update packets from $N>1$ sources where each packet update stream is Poisson, i.e., single-hop scenario. In the current work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Nail Akar , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated. To quantify the freshness of the data packets at the information receiver, the age of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Zhongpei Zhang

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 2020-02-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric that measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received information update. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for a network under general interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Rajat Talak , Igor Kadota , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

In this work, we study age-optimal scheduling with stability constraints in a multiple access channel with two heterogeneous source nodes transmitting to a common destination. The first node is connected to a power grid and it has randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the problem of minimizing age in a multihop wireless network. There are multiple source-destination pairs, transmitting data through multiple wireless channels, over multiple hops. We propose a network control policy which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

This paper is motivated by emerging edge computing systems which consist of sensor nodes that acquire and process information and then transmit status updates to an edge receiver for possible further processing. As power is a scarce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Parisa Rafiee , Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

We consider a single server communication setting where the interarrival times of data updates at the source node and the service times to the destination node are arbitrarily distributed. We consider two service discipline models. If a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

The problem of reducing the age-of-information has been extensively studied in the single-hop networks. In this paper, we minimize the age-of-information in general multihop networks. If the packet transmission times over the network links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

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

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

Age-of-Information (AoI) is an application layer metric that has been widely adopted to quantify the information freshness of each information source. However, few works address the impact of probabilistic transmission failures on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Chenchen Fu , Vincent Chau , Xiang Liu , Jianping Wang , Junzhou Luo

We consider the scenario where a sender periodically sends a batch of data to a receiver over a multi-hop network, possibly using multiple paths. Our objective is to minimize peak/average Age-of-Information (AoI) subject to throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Qingyu Liu , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

In this work, we generalize the Stochastic Hybrid Systems (SHSs) analysis of traditional AoI to the AoII metric. Hierarchical ageing processes are adopted using the continuous AoII for the first time, where two different hierarchy schemes,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Han Xu , Jiaqi Li , Jixiang Zhang , Tiecheng Song , Yinfei Xu

This paper investigates the tradeoff between the average age of information (AoI) and the transmission cost for networks with stochastic packet arrival and random erasure channel. Specifically, we model the resource-constrained AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yonghao Ji , Xiaoli Xu

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

This paper investigates the Age of Information (AoI) performance of Frame Slotted ALOHA with Reservation and Data slots (FSA-RD). We consider a symmetric multi-access network where each user transmits its randomly generated status updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Qian Wang , He Chen