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Scheduling of the transmission of status updates over an error-prone communication channel is studied in order to minimize the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the destination, under an average resource constraint at the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

A new timeliness metric, called Age-of-Information (AoI), has recently attracted a lot of research interests for real-time applications with information updates. It has been extensively studied for various queueing models based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhongdong Liu , Yu Sang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

This paper considers a large-scale wireless network consisting of source-destination (SD) pairs, where the sources send time-sensitive information, termed status updates, to their corresponding destinations in a time-slotted fashion. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Praful D. Mankar , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein

We consider a single source-destination pair, where information updates arrive at the source at arbitrary time instants. For each update, its size, i.e. the service time required for complete transmission to the destination, is also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

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

We investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to the intended receivers over a shared spectrum. Due to interference, the dynamics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Information (AoI) has attracted much attention recently due to its capability of characterizing the freshness of information. To improve information freshness over fading channels, efficient scheduling methods are highly desired for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Yalei Wang , Wei Chen

This paper investigates the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to grant-free transmissions to reduce the age of information (AoI) in uplink status update systems, where multiple sources upload their {status updates} to {a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yanshi Sun , Yanglin Ye , Caihong Kai , Zhiguo Ding , Bin Chen

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

As 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are deeply integrated into vertical industries such as autonomous driving and industrial robotics, timely status update is crucial for remote monitoring and control. In this regard, Age of Information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We consider a random access network consisting of source-destination pairs. Each source node generates status updates and transmits this information to its intended destination over a shared spectrum. The goal is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

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

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

Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Age of Information (AoI) is a key metric used for evaluating data freshness in communication networks, particularly in systems requiring real-time updates. In positioning applications, maintaining low AoI is critical for ensuring timely and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Wasif J. Hussain , Don-Roberts Emenonye , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon