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We revisit the source coding problem for a Markov chain under the assumption that the transmission times and how fast the Markov chain transitions its state happen at the same time-scale. Specifically, we assume that the transmission of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

Data collected and transmitted by Internet of things (IoT) devices are typically used for control and monitoring purposes; and hence, their timely delivery is of utmost importance for the underlying applications. However, IoT devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

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

We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

This paper considers a cognitive radio-based IoT monitoring system, consisting of an IoT device that aims to update its measurement to a destination using cognitive radio technique. Specifically, the IoT device as a secondary user (SIoT),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yifan Gu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

A status updating system is considered in which data from multiple sources are sampled by an energy harvesting sensor and transmitted to a remote destination through an erasure channel. The goal is to deliver status updates of all sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the age minimization problem for a two-hop relay system, under a resource constraint on the average number of forwarding operations at the relay. We first design an optimal policy by modelling the considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yifan Gu , Qian Wang , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We consider a sensor that samples an $N$-state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC)-based information source process, and transmits the observed state of the source, to a remote monitor tasked with timely tracking of the source process. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

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

Herein, minimization of time-averaged age-of-information (AoI) in an energy harvesting (EH) source setting is considered. The EH source opportunistically samples one or multiple processes over discrete time instants and sends the status…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Akanksha Jaiswal , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Amokh Varma

In a communication setting where multiple sources share a single channel to provide status updates to a remote monitor, source transmissions need to be scheduled appropriately to maintain timely communication between each of the sources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

In applications of remote sensing, estimation, and control, timely communication is not always ensured by high-rate communication. This work proposes distributed age-efficient transmission policies for random access channels with $M$…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xingran Chen , Konstantinos Gatsis , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

The emergence of new intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

We consider semantics-aware remote estimation of a discrete-state Markov source with both normal (low-priority) and alarm (high-priority) states. Erroneously announcing a normal state at the destination when the source is actually in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

Age-of-information is a novel performance metric in communication systems to indicate the freshness of the latest received data, which has wide applications in monitoring and control scenarios. Another important performance metric in these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

We consider a communication system in which status updates arrive at a source node, and should be transmitted through a network to the intended destination node. The status updates are samples of a random process under observation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Maice Costa , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides

This letter provides query-age-optimal joint sampling and transmission scheduling policies for a heterogeneous status update system, consisting of a stochastic arrival and a generate-at-will source, with an unreliable channel. Our main goal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu
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