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In this paper, we study a real-time monitoring system in which multiple source nodes are responsible for sending update packets to a common destination node in order to maintain the freshness of information at the destination. Since it may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

We analytically decide whether the broadcast transmission scheme or the unicast transmission scheme achieves the optimal age of information (AoI) performance of a multiuser system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

This paper investigates the tradeoff between the average age of information (AoI) and the transmission cost for networks with stochastic packet arrival and random erasure channel. Specifically, we model the resource-constrained AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yonghao Ji , Xiaoli Xu

We design a new scheduling policy to minimize the general non-decreasing cost function of age of information (AoI) in a multiuser system. In this system, the base station stochastically generates time-sensitive packets and transmits them to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhifeng Tang , Zhuo Sun , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

In recent years, semantic communication is progressively emerging as an effective means of facilitating intelligent and context-aware communication. However, current researches seldom simultaneously consider the reliability and timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Lunyuan Chen , Jie Gong

In this work, we derive optimal transmission policies in an energy harvesting status update system. The system monitors a stochastic process which can be either in a normal or in an alarm state of operation. We capture the freshness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

We investigate the probability that the peak age of information in a point-to-point communication system operating over a multiantenna wireless fading channel exceeds a predetermined value. The packets are scheduled according to a last-come…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Johan Östman , Rahul Devassy , Giuseppe Durisi , Elif Uysal

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

Use of multi-path network topologies has become a prominent technique to assert timeliness in terms of age of information (AoI) and to improve resilience to link disruptions in communication systems. However, establishing multiple dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

We study the coexistence of high throughput traffic flows with status update flows that require timely delivery of updates. A mix of these flows share an end-to-end path that includes a WiFi access network followed by paths over the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Tanya Shreedhar , Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

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

Timely information updates are critical to time-sensitive applications in networked monitoring and control systems. In this paper, the problem of real-time status update is considered for a cognitive radio network (CRN), in which the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yao Zhao , Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Xiliang Luo

We consider a priority queueing system where a single processor serves k classes of packets that are generated randomly following Poisson processes. Our objective is to compute the expected Peak Age of Information (PAoI) under various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jin Xu , Natarajan Gautam

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

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

This paper investigates a multiuser scheduling problem within an uplink multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update network, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna devices. The presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) leverages computational heterogeneity between mobile devices and edge nodes to enable real-time applications requiring high information freshness. The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric serves as a crucial evaluator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Ning Yang , Yibo Liu , Shuo Chen , Meng Zhang , Haijun Zhang

In the emerging fifth generation (5G) technology, communication nodes are expected to support two crucial classes of information traffic, namely, the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) traffic with high data rate requirements, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Rahul Vaze , Mehul Motani

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

We analyze Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where nodes use a spatially adaptive random access scheme to send status updates to a central base station. We show that the set of achievable AoI in this setting is convex, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano