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Consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. In order to measure the "freshness" of the status information available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Motivated by the inherent value of packets arising in many cyber-physical applications (e.g., due to precision of the information content or an alarm message), we consider status update systems with update packets carrying values as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) rely heavily upon time-sensitive information update services to ensure the safety of people and assets, and satisfactory entertainment applications. Therefore, the freshness of information is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Anik Mallik , Dawei Chen , Kyungtae Han , Jiang Xie , Zhu Han

Age of information (AoI) has been proposed as a more suitable metric for characterizing the freshness of information than traditional metrics like delay and throughput. However, the calculation of AoI requires complex analysis and strict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Licheng Chen , Yunquan Dong

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently introduced metric for network operation with sensor applications which quantifies the freshness of data. In the context of networked control systems (NCSs), we compare the worth of the AoI metric with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Markus Klügel , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

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

We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor observes a phenomena of interest with exponentially distributed intervals and delivers the updates to a monitor with the First-come-First-served (FCFS) policy. At the monitor,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Zhiwei Bao , Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates the average age of information (AoI) minimization in status update systems in which the update packets are transmitted with fixed rate. It is assumed that the source avoids queue-induced delay by generating and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Deli Qiao , M. Cenk Gursoy

Freshness of data is an important performance metric for real-time applications, which can be measured by age-of-information. For computation-intensive messages, the embedded information is not available until being computed. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

We study a pull-based status update communication model where a source node submits update packets to a channel with random transmission delay, at times requested by a remote destination node. The objective is to minimize the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 M. Emrullah Ildiz , Orhan T. Yavascan , Elif Uysal , O. Tugberk Kartal

This paper considers a communication system where a source sends time-sensitive information to its destination via queues in tandem. We assume that the arrival process as well as the service process (of each server) are memoryless, and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ashirwad Sinha , Shubhransh Singhvi , Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We propose a frame slotted ALOHA (FSA)-based protocol for a random access network where sources transmit status updates to their intended destinations. We evaluate the effect of such a protocol on the network's timeliness performance using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time information-update system, where a service provider can proactively retrieve information from the information source to update its data and users query the data at the service provider. One example…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Zizhan Zheng , Y. Thomas Hou , Bo Ji

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to play a significant role in the development of 6G networks, as new applications such as cooperative driving and eXtended Reality (XR) require both communication and computational resources from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Federico Chiariotti

A source provides status updates to monitors through a network with state defined by a continuous-time finite Markov chain. An age of information (AoI) metric is used to characterize timeliness by the vector of ages tracked by the monitors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Roy D. Yates

The freshness of status information is of great importance for time-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A metric measuring status freshness is the age-of-information (AoI), which captures the time elapsed from the status being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Rui Li , Qian Ma , Jie Gong , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Age of information (AoI), a notion that measures the information freshness, is an essential performance measure for time-critical applications in Internet of Things (IoT). With the surge of computing resources at the IoT devices, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xijun Wang , Minghao Fang , Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur