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We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

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

This paper investigates the information freshness of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, where each IoT device makes a partial observation of a common target and transmits the information update to a central receiver to recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiaxin Liang , Tse-Tin Chan , Haoyuan Pan

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

Emerging applications, such as smart factories and fleets of drones, increasingly rely on sharing time-sensitive information for monitoring and control. In such application domains, it is essential to keep information fresh, as outdated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Igor Kadota , Muhammad Shahir Rahman , Eytan Modiano

We consider a two-way data exchanging system where a master node transfers energy and data packets to a slave node alternatively. The slave node harvests the transferred energy and performs information transmission as long as it has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan

We consider the design of distributed scheduling algorithms that minimize age of information in single-hop wireless networks. The centralized max-weight policy is known to be nearly optimal in this setting; hence, our goal is to design a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Vishrant Tripathi , Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

Motivated by the recent trend of integrating artificial intelligence into the Internet-of-Things (IoT), we consider the problem of scheduling packets from multiple sensing sources to a central controller over a wireless network. Here,…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bin Li

We consider a communication system consisting of a server that tracks and publishes updates about a time-varying data source or event, and a gossip network of users interested in closely tracking the event. The timeliness of the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Priyanka Kaswan , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , S. Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Başar

Age of Information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in enriching and facilitating human life by generating various useful information, of which real-time GenAI is a significant part and has great potential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , Wenchi Cheng , George K. Karagiannidis , Arumugam Nallanathan , Mohsen Guizani

In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang

We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

Scheduling of the transmission of status updates over an error-prone communication channel is studied in order to minimize the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the destination, under an average resource constraint at the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

We study age of information in multi-hop multi-cast cache-enabled networks where the inter-update times on the links are not necessarily exponentially distributed. We focus on the set of non-arithmetic distributions for inter-update times,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers utilizing the knowledge of age gains to reduce the network average age of information (AoI) in random access with event-driven periodic updating for the first time. Built on the form of slotted ALOHA, we require each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yuan-Hsuan Lo , Yijin Zhang

In cloud computing environments, a large number of users access data stored in highly available storage systems. To provide good performance to geographically disperse users and allow operation even in the presence of failures or network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nuno Preguiça , Carlos Baquero , Paulo Sérgio Almeida , Victor Fonte , Ricardo Gonçalves

This work is motivated by the need of collecting fresh data from power-constrained sensors in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network. A recently proposed metric, the Age of Information (AoI) is adopted to measure data freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee

Information freshness in IoT-based status update systems has recently been studied through the Age of Information (AoI) and Peak AoI (PAoI) performance metrics. In this paper, we study a discrete-time server arising in multi-source IoT…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Nail Akar , Ozancan Dogan