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Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric that measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received information update. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for a network under general interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Rajat Talak , Igor Kadota , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

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

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

In a wireless network, the efficiency of scheduling algorithms over time-varying channels depends heavily on the accuracy of the Channel State Information (CSI), which is usually quite ``costly'' in terms of consuming network resources.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Wenzhuo Ouyang , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness B. Shroff

We consider a wireless broadcast network with a base station sending time-sensitive information to a number of clients through unreliable channels. The Age of Information (AoI), namely the amount of time that elapsed since the most recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Igor Kadota , Abhishek Sinha , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Rahul Singh , Eytan Modiano

The surge of mobile data traffic forces network operators to cope with capacity shortage. The deployment of small cells in 5G networks is meant to reduce latency, backhaul traffic and increase radio access capacity. In this context, mobile…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Francesco De Pellegrini , Antonio Massaro , Leonardo Goratti , Rachid El-Azouzi

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

Age of Information is a newly introduced metric, getting vivid attention for measuring the freshness of information in real-time networks. This parameter has evolved to guarantee the reception of timely information from the latest status…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

In this work, we design and analyze novel distributed scheduling algorithms for multi-user MIMO systems. In particular, we consider algorithms which do not require sending channel state information to a central processing unit, nor do they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Joseph Kampeas , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness. AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We consider the problem of minimizing average and peak AoI in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Information is an interesting metric that captures the freshness of information in the underlying applications. It is a combination of both packets inter-arrival time and packet transmission delay. In recent times, advanced real-time…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

This paper studies the user scheduling problem in a multiuser multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update system, in which multiple single-antenna devices aim to send their latest statuses to a multiple-antenna information-fusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 He Chen , Qian Wang , Zheng Dong , Ning Zhang

The performance of systems where multiple users communicate over wireless fading links benefits from channel-adaptive allocation of the available resources. Different from most existing approaches that allocate resources based on perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-07 Antonio G. Marques , Georgios B. Giannakis , Javier Ramos

We consider a mobile network where a mobile device is running an application that requires timely information. The information at the device can be updated by downloading the latest information through neighboring access points. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Yi-Hsuan Tseng , Yu-Pin Hsu

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

Wireless powered mobile edge computing has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to enhance the computation capability of low-power wireless devices in Industrial Internet of Things. An efficient resource scheduling method is critical yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Hao Wu , Hui Tian , Shaoshuai Fan , Jiazhi Ren

We consider the problem of distributed scheduling in wireless networks where heterogeneously delayed information about queue lengths and channel states of all links are available at all the transmitters. In an earlier work (by Reddy et al.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Srinath Narasimha , Joy Kuri , Albert Sunny

This paper examines the average age minimization problem where only a fraction of the network users can transmit simultaneously over unreliable channels. Finding the optimal scheduling scheme, in this case, is known to be challenging.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Ali Maatouk

There is a growing interest in analysing the freshness of data in networked systems. Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a popular metric to quantify this freshness at a given destination. There has been a significant research effort in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jaya Prakash Champati , Ramana R. Avula , Tobias J. Oechtering , James Gross