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We consider a multi-source relaying system where independent sources randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a relay through unreliable links. We develop transmission scheduling policies to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this article, we provide an accessible introduction to the emerging idea of Age of Information (AoI) that quantifies freshness of information and explore its possible role in the efficient design of freshness-aware Internet of Things…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Age-of-information (AoI) is a newly proposed performance metric of information freshness. It differs from the traditional delay metric, because it is destination centric and measures the time that elapsed since the last received fresh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Timeliness is an emerging requirement for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In IoT networks, where a large-number of nodes are distributed, severe interference may incur during the transmission phase which causes age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xinghua Sun , Fangming Zhao , Howard H. Yang , Wen Zhan , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we investigate an amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way cooperative status update system, where two sources aim to exchange status updates with each other as timely as possible with the help of a relay. Specifically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Bohai Li , He Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Yonghui Li

Beyond fifth generation wireless communication networks (B5G) are applied in many use-cases, such as industrial control systems, smart public transport, and power grids. Those applications require innovative techniques for timely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

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

We examine the age of information (AoI) of a status update system that incorporates energy harvesting and uses the slotted ALOHA protocol. We derive analytically the average AoI and the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro

The Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically assume that packets enter the monitored system with zero age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fernando Miguelez , Urtzi Ayesta , Josu Doncel , Maria Dolores Ugarte

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. We assume updates arrive randomly at the source according to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

Age of Information (AoI) and Peak AoI (PAoI) and their analytical models have recently drawn substantial amount of attention in information theory and wireless communications disciplines, in the context of qualitative assessment of…

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

In this paper, we study a model relevant to semantics-aware goal-oriented communications. More specifically, observations from an external process are transmitted through status updates to a battery-powered receiver. From these updates, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

The proliferation of real-time applications has spurred much interest in data freshness, captured by the {\it age-of-information} (AoI) metric. When strategic data sources have private market information, a fundamental economic challenge is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Meng Zhang , Ahmed Arafa , Ermin Wei , Randall A. Berry

Fueled by the rapid development of communication networks and sensors in portable devices, today many mobile users are invited by content providers to sense and send back real-time useful information (e.g., traffic observations and sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time information-update system, where a service provider can proactively retrieve information from the information source to update its data and users query the data at the service provider. One example…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Zizhan Zheng , Y. Thomas Hou , Bo Ji

In this paper, we analyze the impact of different encoding schemes on the age of information (AoI) performance in a point-to-point system, where a source generates packets based on the status updates collected from multiple sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haosheng He , Jianpeng Qi , Chao Liu , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu