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We consider the scenario where a sender periodically sends a batch of data to a receiver over a multi-hop network, possibly using multiple paths. Our objective is to minimize peak/average Age-of-Information (AoI) subject to throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Qingyu Liu , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

An optimal control problem with heterogeneous servers to minimize the average age of information (AoI) is considered. Each server maintains a separate queue, and each packet arriving to the system is randomly routed to one of the servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anhad Bhati , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Rahul Vaze

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

A queueing system handling a sequence of message arrivals is considered where each message obsoletes all previous messages. The objective is to assess the freshness of the latest message/information that has been successfully transmitted,…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-10-12 George Kesidis , Takis Konstantopoulos , Michael Zazanis

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness. AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We consider the problem of minimizing average and peak AoI in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

We focus on the Age of Information (AoI) performance in a system where each user generates packets periodically to send to a common access point (AP) for status updating. To avoid heavy overhead, we assume that channel sensing, feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Fang Liu , Wing Shing Wong , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Yijin Zhang , Chung Shue Chen

Age of incorrect information (AoII) has recently been proposed as an alternative to existing information freshness metrics for real-time sampling and estimation problems involving information sources that are tracked by remote monitors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor monitors multiple dynamic information processes and transmits updates over a shared communication channel. These updates may include correlated information across the various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

We study age-agnostic scheduling in a non-preemptive status update system with two sources sending time-stamped information packets at random instances to a common monitor through a single server. The server is equipped with a waiting room…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nail Akar , Ezhan Karasan

Age of Information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. While Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

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

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

Timeliness is an emerging requirement for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In IoT networks, where a large-number of nodes are distributed, severe interference may incur during the transmission phase which causes age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xinghua Sun , Fangming Zhao , Howard H. Yang , Wen Zhan , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information (AoI) is an effective performance metric measuring the freshness of information and is popular for applications involving status update. Most of the existing works have adopted average AoI as the metric, which cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Guan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Yu-Pin Hsu

In Internet of Things (IoT), the freshness of status updates is crucial for mission-critical applications. In this regard, it is suggested to quantify the freshness of updates by using Age of Information (AoI) from the receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xijun Wang , Wenrui Lin , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen