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Efficient data transmission in resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) systems requires semantics-aware management that maximizes the delivery of timely and informative data. This paper investigates the optimization of the semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

Timely status updating is the premise of emerging interaction-based applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Using redundant devices to update the status of interest is a promising method to improve the timeliness of information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhengchuan Chen , Kang Lang , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Zhong Tian , Tony Q. S. Quek

The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric has been widely studied in the theoretical communication networks and queuing systems literature. However, experimental evaluation of its applicability to complex real-world time-sensitive systems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota , Ezra Tal , Muhammad Shahir Rahman , Alexander Warren , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

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

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

Many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications rely on information collected by sensor nodes where the freshness of information is an important criterion. \textit{Age of Information} (AoI) is a metric that quantifies information…

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. Since AoI combines packet generation frequency, packet loss, and delay into a single metric, it has received a lot of research attention as an interface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Wolfgang Kellerer

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

Caching has been regarded as a promising technique to alleviate energy consumption of sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) networks by responding to users' requests with the data packets stored in the edge caching node (ECN). For real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chao Xu , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Hongguang Sun , Tony Q. S. Quek

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) technologies help mitigate undesirable effects in wireless links by steering the communication signal between transmitters and receivers. IRS elements are configured to adjust the phase of the reflected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Jorge Torres Gómez , Joana Angjo , Moritz Garkisch , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Falko Dressler

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

This article studies the joint problem of uplink-downlink scheduling and power allocation for controlling a large number of actuators that upload their states to remote controllers and download control actions over wireless links. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Abanoub M. Girgis , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

The air interface technology plays a crucial role in optimizing the communication quality for users. To address the challenges brought by the radio channel variations to air interface design, this article proposes a framework of wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jianhua Zhang , Yichen Cai , Li Yu , Zhen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Jialin Wang , Tao Jiang , Liang Xia , Ping Zhang

Autonomous vehicular platoons will play an important role in improving on-road safety in tomorrow's smart cities. Vehicles in an autonomous platoon can exploit vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to collect information, such as velocity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

Consider an energy harvesting node where generation of a status update message takes non-negligible time due to sensing, computing and analytics operations performed before making update transmissions. The node has to harmonize its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omur Ozel , Parisa Rafiee

This paper considers a cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) system with a source aiming to transmit randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible under the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bohai Li , Qian Wang , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

This paper investigates the problem of sensor scheduling for remotely estimating the states of heterogeneous dynamical systems over resource-limited and lossy wireless channels. Considering the low time complexity and high versatility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Taige Chang , Xianghui Cao , Wei Xing Zheng

Traditional radio systems are strictly co-designed on the lower levels of the OSI stack for compatibility and efficiency. Although this has enabled the success of radio communications, it has also introduced lengthy standardization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Colin de Vrieze , Shane Barratt , Daniel Tsai , Anant Sahai