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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 (e.g. delay and jitter) fails to characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a highly promising technology with diverse applications in wireless networks. One of their primary uses is the collection of time-sensitive data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In UAV-assisted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

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

In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the frequent transmission of large amounts of data over wireless networks should meet the stringent timeliness requirements. Particularly, the freshness of packet status updates has a significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Yuang Chen , Fengqian Guo , Chang Wu , Shuyi Liu , Hancheng Lu , Chang Wen Chen

We focus on the Age of Information (AoI) performance in a system where each user generates packets periodically to send to a common access point (AP) for status updating. To avoid heavy overhead, we assume that channel sensing, feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Fang Liu , Wing Shing Wong , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Yijin Zhang , Chung Shue Chen

This paper studies low-power random access protocols for timely status update systems with information freshness requirements, measured by age of information (AoI). In an extensive network, a fundamental challenge is scheduling a large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tse-Tin Chan , Jian Feng , Haoyuan Pan

We consider a slotted-time system with a transmitter-receiver pair. In the system, a transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through a communication channel. We assume that the channel is error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Lots of real-time applications over Internet of things (IoT)-based status update systems have imperative demands on information freshness, which is usually evaluated by age of information (AoI). Compared to the average AoI and peak AoI…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tianci Zhang , Shutong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Yunjian Jia , Min Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

Internet of Things (IoT) networks have become ubiquitous as autonomous computing, communication and collaboration among devices become popular for accomplishing various tasks. The use of relays in IoT networks further makes it convenient to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Biplav Choudhury , Prasenjit Karmakar , Vijay K. Shah , Jeffrey H. Reed

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

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

This paper characterizes the structure of the Age of Information (AoI)-optimal policy in wireless powered communication systems while accounting for the time and energy costs of generating status updates at the source nodes. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur

The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a recently proposed metric for real-time remote monitoring systems. In particular, AoII measures the time the information at the monitor is incorrect, weighted by the magnitude of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

We propose and evaluate the performance of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) dual-hop multiple relay (MR) network from an information freshness perspective using the Age of Information (AoI) metric. More specifically, we consider an…

It is becoming increasingly clear that an important task for wireless networks is to minimize the age of information (AoI), i.e., the timeliness of information delivery. While mainstream approaches generally rely on the real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Muxia Sun , Hans D. Schotten