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In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which multiple IoT devices must transmit timely updates on the status information of a common underlying physical process to a common destination. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Timely message delivery is a key enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to support wide range of context-dependent applications. Conventional time-related metrics, such as delay, fails to characterize the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch

Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the topic has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hasan Burhan Beytur , Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

We consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where a server transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. We apply a recently proposed metric, named age of information (AoI), to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhengchuan Chen , Yi Qu , Nikolaos Pappas , Chaowei Tang , Min Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

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 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

A large body of applications that involve monitoring, decision making, and forecasting require timely status updates for their efficient operation. Age of Information (AoI) is a newly proposed metric that effectively captures this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently introduced metric for network operation with sensor applications which quantifies the freshness of data. In the context of networked control systems (NCSs), we compare the worth of the AoI metric with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Markus Klügel , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

Age of information (AoI) measures information freshness at the receiver. AoI may provide insights into quality of service in communication systems. For this reason, it has been used as a cross-layer metric for wireless communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

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 considers an Industrial Internet of Thing (IIoT) system with a source monitoring a dynamic process with randomly generated status updates. The status updates are sent to an designated destination in a real-time manner over an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Zhibo Pang , Branka Vucetic

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

The freshness of status information is of great importance for time-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A metric measuring status freshness is the age-of-information (AoI), which captures the time elapsed from the status being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Rui Li , Qian Ma , Jie Gong , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Beyond fifth generation wireless communication networks (B5G) are applied in many use-cases, such as industrial control systems, smart public transport, and power grids. Those applications require innovative techniques for timely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang