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In this study, we consider a problem of remote safety monitoring, where a monitor pulls status updates from multiple sensors monitoring several safety-critical situations. Based on the received updates, multiple estimators determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Tasmeen Zaman Ornee , Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Clement Kam , Yin Sun

We consider a finite-state Discrete-Time Markov Chain (DTMC) source that can be sampled for detecting the events when the DTMC transits to a new state. Our goal is to study the trade-off between sampling frequency and staleness in detecting…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mikael Skoglund , James Gross

In status update systems, multiple features carried by the status updating process require pursuit of objectives beyond timeliness measured by the age of information of updates. We consider such a problem where the transmitter sends status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Omur Ozel , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

As 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are deeply integrated into vertical industries such as autonomous driving and industrial robotics, timely status update is crucial for remote monitoring and control. In this regard, Age of Information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We consider a node-monitor pair, where updates are generated stochastically (according to a known distribution) at the node that it wishes to send to the monitor. The node is assumed to incur a fixed cost for each transmission, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

We study push-based sampling and transmission policies for a status update system consisting of a general finite-state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) information source with known dynamics, with the goal of minimizing the average age…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers optimization over multiple renewal systems coupled by time average constraints. These systems act asynchronously over variable length frames. For each system, at the beginning of each renewal frame, it chooses an action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Xiaohan Wei , Michael J. Neely

This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Wu , Kemi Ding , Peng Cheng , Ling Shi

Links in practical systems, such as satellite--terrestrial integrated networks, exhibit distinct delay distributions, intermittent availability, and heterogeneous energy costs. These characteristics pose significant challenges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Adem Utku Atasayar , Aimin Li , Çağrı Arı , Elif Uysal

The groundbreaking metric age of information (AoI) has been introduced to measure information freshness in communication networks. As transformational as it is, AoI metric falls short in some applications, such as remote monitoring, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

We investigate the age of information (AoI) of a relay-assisted cooperative communication system, where a source node sends status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible with the aid of a relay node. For time-slotted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyuan Pan , Jian Feng , Tse-Tin Chan , Victor C. M. Leung , Jianqiang Li

Consider an energy harvesting node where generation of a status update message takes non-negligible time due to sensing, computing and analytics operations performed before making update transmissions. The node has to harmonize its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omur Ozel , Parisa Rafiee

This paper addresses a scheduling problem in the context of a cyber-physical system where a sensor and a controller communicate over an unreliable channel. The sensor observes the state of a source at each time, and according to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Touraj Soleymani

We study a real-time tracking problem in an energy harvesting status update system with a Markov source and an imperfect channel, considering both sampling and transmission costs. The problem primary challenge stems from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Marian Codreanu

This paper focuses on optimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) in device-to-device (D2D) networks through age-aware link scheduling. The problem is naturally formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP). However, finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Lixin Wang , Qian Wang , He Chen , Shidong Zhou

In this paper, we consider the problem of real-time transmission scheduling over time-varying channels. We first formulate the transmission scheduling problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) and systematically unravel the structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-15 Fangwen Fu , Mihaela van der Schaar

This paper investigates the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a communication system whose channel suffers a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to send updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we investigate denial-of-service attacks against status updating. The target system is modeled by a Markov chain and an unreliable wireless channel, and the performance of status updating in the target system is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Deniz Gündüz , Touraj Soleymani

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides