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Consider a network where a wireless base station (BS) connects multiple source-destination pairs. Packets from each source are generated according to a renewal process and are enqueued in a single-packet queue that stores only the freshest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

Received samples of a stochastic process are processed by a server for delivery as updates to a monitor. Each sample belongs to a class that specifies a distribution for its processing time and a function that describes how the value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates

We consider the optimal value of information (VoI) problem, where the goal is to sequentially select a set of tests with a minimal cost, so that one can efficiently make the best decision based on the observed outcomes. Existing algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Yuxin Chen , Jean-Michel Renders , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Andreas Krause

Motivated by the Internet-of-things and sensor networks for cyberphysical systems, the problem of dynamic sensor activation for the tracking of a time-varying process is examined. The tradeoff is between energy efficiency, which decreases…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we study a sampling problem where a source takes samples from a Wiener process and transmits them through a wireless channel to a remote estimator. Due to channel fading, interference, and potential collisions, the packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jiayu Pan , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In [1], Sinopoli et al. analyze the problem of optimal estimation for linear Gaussian systems where packets containing observations are dropped according to an i.i.d. Bernoulli process, modeling a memoryless erasure channel. In this case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Yilin Mo , Bruno Sinopoli

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

In this paper, we study the remote estimation problem of a Markov process over a channel with a cost. We formulate this problem as an infinite horizon optimization problem with two players, i.e., a sensor and a monitor, that have distinct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Edoardo David Santi , Touraj Soleymani , Deniz Gunduz

This work introduces a framework for analyzing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a real-time monitoring system with a generic discrete-time Markov source. We study a noisy communication system employing a hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

Unpredictable sensor-to-estimator delays fundamentally distort what matters for wireless remote state estimation: not just freshness, but how delay interacts with sensor informativeness and energy efficiency. In this paper, we present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nho-Duc Tran , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

We study the design of scheduling policies to minimize monitoring error for a collection of correlated sources, where only one source can be observed at any given time. We model correlated sources as a discrete-time Wiener process, where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 R Vallabh Ramakanth , Vishrant Tripathi , Eytan Modiano

This paper examines learning the optimal filtering policy, known as the Kalman gain, for a linear system with unknown noise covariance matrices using noisy output data. The learning problem is formulated as a stochastic policy optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Shahriar Talebi , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Mehran Mesbahi

This paper studies semantics-aware remote estimation of Markov sources. We leverage two complementary information attributes: the urgency of lasting impact, which quantifies the significance of consecutive estimation error at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

In the considered linear Gaussian sensor scheduling problem, only one sensor out of a set of sensors performs a measurement. To minimize the estimation error over multiple time steps in a computationally tractable fashion, the so-called…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Marco F. Huber

Consider an energy harvesting (EH) sensor that continuously monitors a system and sends time-stamped status update to a destination. The sensor harvests energy from nature and uses it to power its updating operations. The destination keeps…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process, and makes a decision as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

This letter provides query-age-optimal joint sampling and transmission scheduling policies for a heterogeneous status update system, consisting of a stochastic arrival and a generate-at-will source, with an unreliable channel. Our main goal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein