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The widespread adoption of age of information (AoI) as a meaningful and analytically tractable information freshness metric has led to a wide body of work on the timing performance of Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, the spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Federico Chiariotti , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which multiple devices are observing some object's physical parameters and then offloading their observations back to the BS in time with opportunistic channel access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Wang , Rongfei Fan

Scheduling updates from remote sensors is a key task for the internet of things (IoT). In this context, the mathematical concept of age of information is often used to capture the freshness of received data. This is, in turn, relevant to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia

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 study the moments of the Age of Information (AoI) for both active and passive users in a random access network. In this network, active users broadcast sensing data, while passive users detect in-band radio activities from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Siqi Fan , Yuxin Zhong , I-Hong Hou , Clement K Kam

Motivated by cooperative distributed networks in which users dynamically alternate between transmit and receive modes under half-duplex constraints, this paper studies the Age of Information (AoI) in a distributed multi-user network using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peng Zou , Ali Maatouk , Egemen Erbayat , Suresh Subramaniam

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor delivers updates to a monitor with exponential service time and first-come-first-served (FCFS) discipline. We investigate the freshness of the received updates and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Shanyun Liu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

In most Internet of Things (IoT) networks, edge nodes are commonly used as to relays to cache sensing data generated by IoT sensors as well as provide communication services for data consumers. However, a critical issue of IoT sensing is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiongwei Wu , Xiuhua Li , Jun Li , P. C. Ching , H. Vincent Poor

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

In applications of remote sensing, estimation, and control, timely communication is not always ensured by high-rate communication. This work proposes distributed age-efficient transmission policies for random access channels with $M$…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xingran Chen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a metric that can combine the freshness of the information available to a gateway in an Internet of Things (IoT) network with the accuracy of that information. As such, minimizing the AoII can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Anupam Nayak , Anders E. Kalør , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

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

Minimization of the expected value of age of information (AoI) is a risk-neutral approach, and it thus cannot capture rare, yet critical, events with potentially large AoI. In order to capture the effect of these events, in this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Petar Popovski

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

In this work, we consider a remote monitoring scenario in which multiple sensors share a wireless channel to deliver their status updates to a process monitor via an access point (AP). Moreover, we consider that the sensors randomly arrive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Yash Deshpande , Onur Ayan , Wolfgang Kellerer

Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

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

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

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li