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This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

Age of Information (AoI), namely the time that has elapsed since the most recently delivered packet was generated, is receiving increasing attention with the emergence of many real-time applications that rely on the exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xinlu Dai , Cyril Leung

We consider a wireless communication network with an adaptive scheme to select the number of packets to be admitted and encoded for each transmission, and characterize the information timeliness. For a network of erasure channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Maice Costa , Yalin Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Muriel Médard

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

We consider the problem of minimizing the time average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information constraints (AoI). Errors in the transmission may occur and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides

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

In this letter, we deal with the age of information (AoI) for a sensor network with wireless power transfer (WPT) capabilities. Specifically, we study a simple network topology, where a sensor node harvests energy from radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Ioannis Krikidis

We develop a simple model for the timely monitoring of correlated sources over a wireless network. Using this model, we study how to optimize weighted-sum average Age of Information (AoI) in the presence of correlation. First, we discuss…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Vishrant Tripathi , Eytan Modiano

We consider a system with a single source that measures/tracks a time-varying quantity and periodically attempts to report these measurements to a monitoring station. Each update from the source has to be scheduled on one of K available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Santosh Fatale , Kavya Bhandari , Urvidh Narula , Sharayu Moharir , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

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

This paper estimates the freshness of the information in a wireless relay communication system that employs simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) operating under ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)…

Age-of-information (AoI) is a newly proposed performance metric of information freshness. It differs from the traditional delay metric, because it is destination centric and measures the time that elapsed since the last received fresh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

In this article, we provide an accessible introduction to the emerging idea of Age of Information (AoI) that quantifies freshness of information and explore its possible role in the efficient design of freshness-aware Internet of Things…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

This paper revisits the problem of sampling and transmitting status updates through a channel with random delay under a sampling frequency constraint \cite{sun_17_tit}. We use the Age of Information (AoI) to characterize the status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Pengkun Yang , Leandros Tassiulas

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

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

There is a growing interest in analysing the freshness of data in networked systems. Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a popular metric to quantify this freshness at a given destination. There has been a significant research effort in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jaya Prakash Champati , Ramana R. Avula , Tobias J. Oechtering , James Gross

In this paper, we consider a system where multiple low-power sensors communicate timely information about a random process to a sink. The sensors share orthogonal subchannels to transmit such information in the form of status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas

The freshness of real-time status processing of time-sensitive information is crucial for several applications, including healthcare monitoring and autonomous vehicles. This freshness is considered in this paper for the system where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chanikarn Nikunram , Wasin Meesena , Stephen John Turner , Sucha Supittayapornpong