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Characterizing Age of Information (AoI) in status updating systems with general arrival and service processes has great significance considering that the interarrival and service time of updates can possibly be arbitrary in a real world.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Jixiang Zhang , Han Xu , Daming Cao , Yinfei Xu , Minghao Chen , Chengyu Lin

This paper considers a communication system where a source sends time-sensitive information to its destination. We assume that both arrival and service processes of the messages are memoryless and the source has a single server with no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashirwad Sinha , Praful D. Mankar , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider a multi-source status update system, where each source generates status update packets according to a Poisson process which are then served according to a generally distributed service time. For this multi-source M/G/1/1…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Since Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed as a metric that quantifies the freshness of information updates in a communication system, there has been a constant effort in understanding and optimizing different statistics of the AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

This paper considers a large-scale wireless network consisting of source-destination (SD) pairs, where the sources send time-sensitive information, termed status updates, to their corresponding destinations in a time-slotted fashion. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Praful D. Mankar , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Status update systems require the timely collection of sensing information for which deploying multiple sensors/servers to obtain diversity gains is considered as a promising solution. In this work, we construct an absorbing Markov chain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yifan Feng , Nail Akar , Zhengchuan Chen , Mehul Motani

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

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 analyze the distribution of the Age of Information (AoI) of a tagged data stream sharing a processor with a set of other data streams. We do so in the highly general setting in which the interarrival times pertaining to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yoshiaki Inoue , Michel Mandjes

This paper considers the stationary distribution of the age of information (AoI) in information update systems. We first derive a general formula for the stationary distribution of the AoI, which holds for a wide class of information update…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Yoshiaki Inoue , Hiroyuki Masuyama , Tetsuya Takine , Toshiyuki Tanaka

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

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 this paper, we analyze the average age of information (AoI) and the average peak AoI (PAoI) of a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits computation-intensive packets to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhifeng Tang , Zhuo Sun , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

We consider the peak age-of-information (PAoI) in an M/M/1 queueing system with packet delivery error, i.e., update packets can get lost during transmissions to their destination. We focus on two types of policies, one is to adopt…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Kun Chen , Longbo Huang

The age of information (AoI) performance analysis is essential for evaluating the information freshness in the large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. This work proposes the earliest analysis of the mean AoI (MAoI) performance of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Ying Dong , Hang Xiao , Haonan Hu , Jiliang Zhang , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

Bufferless and single-buffer queueing systems have recently been shown to be effective in coping with escalated Age of Information (AoI) figures arising in single-source status update systems with large buffers and FCFS scheduling. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nail Akar , Ozancan Dogan , Eray Unsal Atay

Mobile edge caching (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the quality of service (QoS) for mobile users (MU) by bringing data to the network edge. However, optimizing the crucial QoS aspects of message freshness and service promptness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Lei Yang

Age of information (AoI) is a time-evolving measure of information freshness, that tracks the time since the last received fresh update was generated. Analyzing peak and average AoI, two time average metrics of AoI, for various continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

Consider an energy harvesting node where generation of a status update message takes non-negligible time due to sensing, computing and analytics operations performed before making update transmissions. The node has to harmonize its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omur Ozel , Parisa Rafiee