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We consider the scenario where a sender periodically sends a batch of data to a receiver over a multi-hop network, possibly using multiple paths. Our objective is to minimize peak/average Age-of-Information (AoI) subject to throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Qingyu Liu , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

Timely status updating is the premise of emerging interaction-based applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Using redundant devices to update the status of interest is a promising method to improve the timeliness of information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhengchuan Chen , Kang Lang , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Zhong Tian , Tony Q. S. Quek

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

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

This paper estimates the freshness of the information in a wireless relay communication system that employs simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) operating under ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)…

In this work, we investigate the design of information-update systems, where incoming update packets are forwarded to a remote destination through multiple servers (each server can be viewed as a wireless channel). One important performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

Age of information (AoI) is gaining attention as a valuable performance metric for many IoT systems, in which a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a central gateway. This is the case, for instance, of remote sensing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Andrea Munari

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

We consider a cognitive radio-based Internet-of-Things (CR-IoT) network consisting of one primary IoT (PIoT) system and one secondary IoT (SIoT) system. The IoT devices of both the PIoT and the SIoT respectively monitor one physical process…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Yifan Gu , He Chen , Chao Zhai , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

To promote viral marketing, major social platforms (e.g., Facebook Marketplace and Pinduoduo) repeatedly select and invite different users (as seeds) in online social networks to share fresh information about a product or service with their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Songhua Li , Lingjie Duan

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 provide a characterization of the peak age of information (AoI) achievable in a random-access system operating according to the frameless ALOHA protocol. Differently from previous studies, our analysis accounts for the fact that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva

We consider a multi-source status update system, where each source generates status update packets according to a Poisson process which are then served according to a generally distributed service time. For this multi-source M/G/1/1…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric has been widely studied in the theoretical communication networks and queuing systems literature. However, experimental evaluation of its applicability to complex real-world time-sensitive systems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota , Ezra Tal , Muhammad Shahir Rahman , Alexander Warren , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Timely status updating is crucial for future applications that involve remote monitoring and control, such as autonomous driving and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We consider a wireless communication network with an adaptive scheme to select the number of packets to be admitted and encoded for each transmission, and characterize the information timeliness. For a network of erasure channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Maice Costa , Yalin Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Muriel Médard

As development Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) technology and demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increase, there is a growing need for real-time data and communication by vehicle users. Traditional request-based methods face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Ke Xiong

The significance of the freshness of sensor and control data at the receiver side, often referred to as Age of Information (AoI), is fundamentally constrained by contention for limited network resources. Evidently, network congestion is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Anam Tahir , Kai Cui , Bastian Alt , Amr Rizk , Heinz Koeppl

Exploiting the computational heterogeneity of mobile devices and edge nodes, mobile edge computation (MEC) provides an efficient approach to achieving real-time applications that are sensitive to information freshness, by offloading tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shuo Chen , Ning Yang , Meng Zhang , Jun Wang

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