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In this work, we study the freshness and significance of information in an IoT status update system in which an Energy Harvesting (EH) device samples an information source and forwards update packets to a destination node via a direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

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

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Leader-based data replication improves consistency in highly available distributed storage systems via sequential writes to the leader nodes. After a write has been committed by the leaders, follower nodes are written by a multicast…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amir Behrouzi-Far , Emina Soljanin , Roy D. Yates

Timely and informative data dissemination in communication networks is essential for enhancing system performance and energy efficiency, as it reduces the transmission of outdated or redundant data. Timeliness metrics, such as Age of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a scheduling problem pertinent to a base station (BS) that serves heterogeneous users (UEs). We focus on a downlink model, with users that are either interested in large throughput, low latency (the time difference between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kumar Saurav , Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva

This paper considers a cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) system with a source aiming to transmit randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible under the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bohai Li , Qian Wang , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we explore the potential of server waiting before packet transmission in improving the Age of Information (AoI) in status update systems. We consider a non-preemptive queue with Poisson arrivals and independent general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

Consider a stream of status updates generated by a source, where each update is of one of two types: high priority or ordinary (low priority). These updates are to be transmitted through a network to a monitor. However, the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser , Emre Telatar

Timely information updates are critical to time-sensitive applications in networked monitoring and control systems. In this paper, the problem of real-time status update is considered for a cognitive radio network (CRN), in which the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yao Zhao , Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Xiliang Luo

We analytically decide whether the broadcast transmission scheme or the unicast transmission scheme achieves the optimal age of information (AoI) performance of a multiuser system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of optimal scheduling of content placement along time in a base station with limited cache capacity, taking into account jointly the offloading effect and freshness of information. We model offloading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time multi-agent system involving $N$ cost-coupled networked rational agents solving a consensus problem and a central Base Station (BS), scheduling agent communications over a network. Due to a hard…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Tamer Başar

Age of Information is a new metric used in real-time status update tracking applications. It measures at the destination the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet. In this paper, we consider the co-existence of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Olga Vikhrova , Federico Chiariotti , Beatriz Soret , Giuseppe Araniti , Antonella Molinaro , Petar Popovski

We consider a system where randomly generated updates are to be transmitted to a monitor, but only a single update can be in the transmission service at a time. Therefore, the source has to prioritize between the two possible transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Elie Najm , Roy D. Yates , Emina Soljanin

To support rapid and accurate autonomous driving services, road environment information, which is difficult to obtain through vehicle sensors themselves, is collected and utilized through communication with surrounding infrastructure in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Soohyun Park , Chanyoung Park , Soyi Jung , Minseok Choi , Joongheon Kim

In this paper, we introduce a new data freshness metric, relative Age of Information (rAoI), and examine it in a single server system with various packet management schemes. The (classical) AoI metric was introduced to measure the staleness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

We study the age of information (AoI) in a random access network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, where each source node is empowered by energy harvesting capability. Every source node transmits a sequence of data packets to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang

The goal of this paper is to establish a general approach for analyzing queueing models with repeated inhomogeneous vacations. The server goes on for a vacation if the inactivity prolongs more than the vacation trigger duration. Once the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Amar Prakash Azad

Consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. In order to measure the "freshness" of the status information available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang