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In this work, we study a status update system with a source node sending timely information to the destination through a channel with random delay. We measure the timeliness of the information stored at the receiver via the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jingzhou Sun , Jian Song

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

In the Internet of Things (IoT) networks, caching is a promising technique to alleviate energy consumption of sensors by responding to users' data requests with the data packets cached in the edge caching node (ECN). However, without an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chao Xu , Yiping Xie , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

We study age-agnostic scheduling in a non-preemptive status update system with two sources sending time-stamped information packets at random instances to a common monitor through a single server. The server is equipped with a waiting room…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nail Akar , Ezhan Karasan

We consider a status update system consisting of a sampler, a sink, and a controller located at the sink. The controller sends requests to the sampler to generate and transmit status updates. Packet transmissions from the controller to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jinxin Yang , Mohammad Moltafet , Hamid R. Sadjadpour

The timely delivery of resource-intensive and latency-sensitive services (e.g., industrial automation, augmented reality) over distributed computing networks (e.g., mobile edge computing) is drawing increasing attention. Motivated by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

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 address the problem of timely delivery of status update packets in a real-time communication system, where a transmitter sends status updates generated by a source to a receiver over an unreliable channel. The timestamps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

One of the major challenges in distributed systems is establishing consistency among replicated data in a timely fashion. While the consistent ordering of events has been extensively researched, the time span to reach a consistent state is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Moritz Schattka

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

Age of information (AoI) measures information freshness at the receiver. AoI may provide insights into quality of service in communication systems. For this reason, it has been used as a cross-layer metric for wireless communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

A status updating communication system is examined, in which a transmitter communicates with a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to realize timely delivery of fresh data over time, which is assessed by an age-of-information (AoI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ahmed Arafa , Karim Banawan , Karim G. Seddik , H. Vincent Poor

A status updating system is considered in which data from multiple sources are sampled by an energy harvesting sensor and transmitted to a remote destination through an erasure channel. The goal is to deliver status updates of all sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

The effective operation of time-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications requires real-time reporting of fresh status information of underlying physical processes. In this paper, a real-time IoT monitoring system is considered, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

IoT devices recently are utilized to detect the state transition in the surrounding environment and then transmit the status updates to the base station for future system operations. To satisfy the stringent timeliness requirement of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yi Chen , Zheng Chang , Geyong Min , Shiwen Mao , Timo Hämäläinen

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

We consider a system where the updates from independent sources are disseminated via a publish-subscribe mechanism. The sources are the publishers and a decision process (DP), acting as a subscriber, derives decision updates from the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vishakha Ramani , Ivan Seskar , Roy D. Yates

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed as a promising technology to collect data from IoT devices and relay it to the network. In this work, we are interested in scenarios where the data is updated periodically, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Mounir Ghogho , Hajar El Hammouti

Cloud Computing is the latest blooming technology in the era of Computer Science and Information Technology domain. There is an enormous pool of data centres, which are termed as Clouds where the services and associated data are being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Nallakumar R. , Sruthi Priya K. S

We consider a system consisting of a library of time-varying files, a server that at all times observes the current version of all files, and a cache that at the beginning stores the current versions of all files but afterwards has to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Haoyue Tang , Philippe Ciblat , Jintao Wang , Michele Wigger , Roy Yates