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Age of Information (AoI), which measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet at the destination, is a new metric for real-time status update tracking applications. In this paper, we consider a status-update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro

Status update systems consist of sensors that take measurements of a physical parameter and transmit them to a remote receiver. Age of Information (AoI) has been studied extensively as a metric for the freshness of information in such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Peng Zou , Jin Zhang , Xianglin Wei , Suresh Subramaniam

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

With the rapid growth of real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the need for fresh information has surged. Age of Information (AoI) is a tailor-made metric to characterize the information freshness perceived by the devices. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jingzhou Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We study a general setting of status updating systems in which a set of source nodes provide status updates about some physical process(es) to a set of monitors. The freshness of information available at each monitor is quantified in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

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

This paper considers a multi-source real-time updating system in which an energy harvesting (EH)-powered transmitter node has multiple sources generating status updates about several physical processes. The status updates are then sent to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper, we introduce a new performance metric in the framework of status updates that we will refer to as the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). This new metric deals with the shortcomings of both the Age of Information (AoI) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Ali Maatouk , Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) rely heavily upon time-sensitive information update services to ensure the safety of people and assets, and satisfactory entertainment applications. Therefore, the freshness of information is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Anik Mallik , Dawei Chen , Kyungtae Han , Jiang Xie , Zhu Han

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

We consider a wireless network with a base station serving multiple traffic streams to different destinations. Packets from each stream arrive to the base station according to a stochastic process and are enqueued in a separate (per stream)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Igor Kadota , Eytan Modiano

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

In this paper, we consider a scenario where an energy harvesting sensor continuously monitors a system and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination. The destination keeps track of the system status through the received updates. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Xianwen Wu , Jing Yang , Jingxian Wu

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

The age of Information (AoI) has been introduced to capture the notion of freshness in real-time monitoring applications. However, this metric falls short in many scenarios, especially when quantifying the mismatch between the current and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad

This paper considers utilizing the knowledge of age gains to reduce the network average age of information (AoI) in random access with event-driven periodic updating for the first time. Built on the form of slotted ALOHA, we require each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yuan-Hsuan Lo , Yijin Zhang