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Internet of Things (IoT) will connect billions of sensors deployed around the world together. This will create an ideal opportunity to build a sensing-as-a-service platform. Due to large number of sensor deployments, there would be number…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Charith Perera , Arkady Zaslavsky , Peter Christen , Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated. To quantify the freshness of the data packets at the information receiver, the age of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Zhongpei Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications are generating and communicating vast quantities of data, and the rate of data collection is increasing rapidly. These high communication volumes are challenging for energy-constrained,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Themis Melissaris , Kelly Shaw , Margaret Martonosi

In this paper, we consider a status update system, in which update packets are sent to the destination via a wireless medium that allows for multiple rates, where a higher rate also naturally corresponds to a higher error probability. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

More and more emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications involve status updates, where various IoT devices monitor certain physical processes and report their latest statuses to the relevant information fusion nodes. A new performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Zixiao Han , Jiaxin Liang , Yifan Gu , He Chen

Age of information (AoI), a metric to analyse data freshness, is of interest for time-critical applications in upcoming wireless networks. Besides, wireless power transfer (WPT) is also essential to prolong lifetime of a wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Ioannis Krikidis

The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

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

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a key metric for assessing data freshness in IoT applications, where a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a monitor. Such systems often rely on random access protocols based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

In this paper, we analyze the peak age of information (PAoI) in UAV-assisted internet of thing (IoT) networks, in which the locations of IoT devices are modeled by a Mat\'{e}rn cluster process (MCP) and UAVs are deployed at the cluster…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Dense indoor WLANs increasingly rely on multiple access points (APs) operating over partially overlapping spectrum to support latency-sensitive applications. In such deployments, simultaneous transmissions across APs create co-channel and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ananth Ram Rajagopalan , Jiahui Ni , Vishrant Tripathi

Moving beyond just interconnected devices, the increasing interplay between communication and computation has fed the vision of real-time networked control systems. To obtain timely situational awareness, IoT devices continuously sample…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Xiaoqi Qin , Yanlin Li , Xianxin Song , Nan Ma , Chuan Huang , Ping Zhang

Effective control of time-sensitive industrial applications depends on the real-time transmission of data from underlying sensors. Quantifying the data freshness through age of information (AoI), in this paper, we jointly design sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yali Cao , Yinglei Teng , Mei Song , Nan Wang

Age-of-information (AoI) is a critical metric that quantifies the freshness of data in communication systems. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), data collected by resource-constrained devices often need to be transmitted to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ching-Chi Lin , Mario Günzel , Jian-Jia Chen

Timely updates are critical for real-time monitoring and control applications powered by the Internet of Things (IoT). As these systems scale, they become increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where malicious agents interfere with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Aresh Dadlani , Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar , Omid Ardakanian , Ioanis Nikolaidis

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic global information network consisting of Internet-connected objects, such as RFIDs, sensors, and actuators, as well as other instruments and smart appliances that are becoming an integral component…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Charith Perera , Chi Harold Liu Member , Srimal Jayawardena , Min Chen

In this work, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Roy D. Yates , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power source nodes to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

The IoT is described as a smart interactive environment where devices communicate together ubiquitously sometimes in the background, performing functions on behalf of the users and offering many advanced services to them. Examples range…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Mahmoud Elkhodr , Zuhaib Bari Mufti