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This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging next-generation technology in the fourth industrial revolution. In industrial IoT networks, sensing devices are largely deployed to monitor various types of physical processes. They are required…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zijing Wang , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we study a remote monitoring system where a receiver observes a remote binary Markov source and decides whether to sample and transmit the state through a randomly delayed channel. We adopt uncertainty of information (UoI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xiaomeng Chen , Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

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

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

In this paper, we consider the cellular Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where UAVs sense data for multiple tasks and transmit the data to the base station (BS). To quantify the "freshness" of the data at the BS, we bring in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

We investigate a remote monitoring framework with multiple sensing modalities including IoT sensors on the ground, mobile UAVs in the air, and a periodically available satellite constellation. While the IoT sensors cover small areas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sunjung Kang , Vishrant Tripathi , Christopher G. Brinton

We study a setting where an intelligent model (e.g., a pre-trained neural network) infers the real-time value of a target signal using data samples transmitted from a remote source. The transmission scheduler decides (i) the freshness of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Cagri Ari , Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal

In 5G and beyond communication systems, the notion of latency gets great momentum in wireless connectivity as a metric for serving real-time communications requirements. However, in many applications, research has pointed out that latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Information is a newly introduced metric, getting vivid attention for measuring the freshness of information in real-time networks. This parameter has evolved to guarantee the reception of timely information from the latest status…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

The notion of timely status updating is investigated in the context of cloud computing. Measurements of a time-varying process of interest are acquired by a sensor node, and uploaded to a cloud server to undergo some required computations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates , H. Vincent Poor

This paper studies the user scheduling problem in a multiuser multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update system, in which multiple single-antenna devices aim to send their latest statuses to a multiple-antenna information-fusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 He Chen , Qian Wang , Zheng Dong , Ning Zhang

Information freshness has attracted increasingly attention in the past decade as it plays a critical role in the emerging real-time applications. Age of information (AoI) holds the promise of effectively characterizing the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Haiming Hui , Shuqi Wei , Wei Chen

The timely sharing of raw sensing information in the vehicular networks (VNETs) is essential to safety. In order to improve the freshness of sensing information, joint scheduling of multi-dimensional resources such as communication and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ning Jiang , Shi Yan , Zhuohan Liu , Chunjing Hu , Mugen Peng

In this paper, we analyze the peak age of information (PAoI) in UAV-assisted internet of thing (IoT) networks, in which the locations of IoT devices are modeled by a Mat\'{e}rn cluster process (MCP) and UAVs are deployed at the cluster…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In future large-scale deployments of 6G and beyond networks, collecting timely information, as measured by the Age of Information (AoI) metric, is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, the environmental impact, often…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shih-Kai Chou , Maice Costa , Mihael Mohorčič , Jernej Hribar

Consider a network where a wireless base station (BS) connects multiple source-destination pairs. Packets from each source are generated according to a renewal process and are enqueued in a single-packet queue that stores only the freshest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

We study age-agnostic scheduling in a non-preemptive status update system with two sources sending time-stamped information packets at random instances to a common monitor through a single server. The server is equipped with a waiting room…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nail Akar , Ezhan Karasan