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Many real-time applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) need to deal with correlated information generated by multiple sensors. The design of efficient status update strategies that minimize the Age of Correlated Information (AoCI) is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chao Xu , Xinyan Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Nikolaos Pappas , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider a multi-source relaying system where independent sources randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a relay through unreliable links. We develop transmission scheduling policies to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

An energy-harvesting sensor node that is sending status updates to a destination is considered. The sensor is equipped with a battery of finite size to save its incoming energy, and consumes one unit of energy per status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

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

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Likun Zhang , Jiahui Li , Jing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Zemin Sun , Changyuan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

This paper investigates the age of information (AoI) for a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) enabled network, where a sensor first scavenges energy from a wireless power station and then transmits the collected status update to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yang Lu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief

In this paper, we consider a wireless network consisting of a base station (BS) that is serving multiple real-time traffic streams forwarding information updates to their destinations in order to sustain the freshness of information for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Ali Muhammad , Mohamed Elhattab , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Ahmed Al-Hilo , Chadi Assi

The recent development in Internet of Things necessitates caching of dynamic contents, where new versions of contents become available around-the-clock and thus timely update is required to ensure their relevance. The age of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Manyou Ma , Vincent W. S. Wong

Data collected and transmitted by Internet of things (IoT) devices are typically used for control and monitoring purposes; and hence, their timely delivery is of utmost importance for the underlying applications. However, IoT devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

We study the age of information (AoI) in a random access network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, where each source node is empowered by energy harvesting capability. Every source node transmits a sequence of data packets to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

The time average expected age of information (AoI) is studied for status updates sent over an error-prone channel from an energy-harvesting transmitter with a finite-capacity battery. Energy cost of sensing new status updates is taken into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

In this work, we adopt the emerging technology of mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for communication-computing systems, to optimize the age of information (AoI) in the network. We assume that tasks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Marjan Tajik , Mohammadreza Maleki , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Hamid Saeedi , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Random access (RA) schemes are a topic of high interest in machine-type communication (MTC). In RA protocols, backoff techniques such as exponential backoff (EB) are used to stabilize the system to avoid low throughput and excessive delays.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Muhammad Awais Jadoon , Adriano Pastore , Monica Navarro , Fernando Perez-Cruz

In this paper, we investigate the problem of age of information (AoI)-aware radio resource management for expected long-term performance optimization in a Manhattan grid vehicle-to-vehicle network. With the observation of global network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Tao Chen , Honggang Zhang , Zhi Liu , Yan Zhang , Mehdi Bennis

We consider IoT sensor network where multiple sensors are connected to corresponding destination nodes via a relay. Thus, the relay schedules sensors to sample and destination nodes to update. The relay can select multiple sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Jaeyoung Song , Deniz Gunduz , Wan Choi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a highly promising technology with diverse applications in wireless networks. One of their primary uses is the collection of time-sensitive data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In UAV-assisted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

We consider an IoT sensing network with multiple users, multiple energy harvesting sensors, and a wireless edge node acting as a gateway between the users and sensors. The users request for updates about the value of physical processes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Mohammad Hatami , Mojtaba Jahandideh , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning (DRL) can suffer from degraded convergence when model updates become stale, often the result of network congestion and packet loss during large-scale training. This work introduces a network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nehal Baganal Krishna , Anam Tahir , Firas Khamis , Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo , Michael Zink , Amr Rizk

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