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Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive information from a source node to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

Status update systems consist of sensors that take measurements of a physical parameter and transmit them to a remote receiver. Age of Information (AoI) has been studied extensively as a metric for the freshness of information in such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Peng Zou , Jin Zhang , Xianglin Wei , Suresh Subramaniam

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

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

With the rapid growth of real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the need for fresh information has surged. Age of Information (AoI) is a tailor-made metric to characterize the information freshness perceived by the devices. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jingzhou Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Age of information (AoI) has been proposed as a more suitable metric for characterizing the freshness of information than traditional metrics like delay and throughput. However, the calculation of AoI requires complex analysis and strict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Licheng Chen , Yunquan Dong

Information freshness, characterized by age of information (AoI), is important for sensor applications involving timely status updates. In many cases, the wireless signals from one sensor can be received by multiple access points (APs).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Haoyuan Pan , Yu Zhou , Tse-Tin Chan , Ming Tang , Jianqiang Li , Zhihua Du

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we consider a scenario where an energy harvesting sensor continuously monitors a system and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination. The destination keeps track of the system status through the received updates. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Xianwen Wu , Jing Yang , Jingxian Wu

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

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur

This work studies the information freshness of the vehicle-to-infrastructure status updating in Internet of vehicles, which is modeled as a multi-source Ber/Geo/1/1 preemptive queueing system with heterogeneous service time. We pay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tianci Zhang , Zhengchuan Chen

This paper studies strategic design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) architecture for status updating of remotely navigating agents. We consider an ISAC-enabled base station that can sense the state of a remote source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

In this work, we study a status update system with a source node sending timely information to the destination through a channel with random delay. We measure the timeliness of the information stored at the receiver via the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Haoyue Tang , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jingzhou Sun , Jian Song

In this paper, we examine a system where status updates are generated by a source and are forwarded in a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) manner to the monitor. We consider the case where the server has other tasks to fulfill, a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

We propose and evaluate the performance of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) dual-hop multiple relay (MR) network from an information freshness perspective using the Age of Information (AoI) metric. More specifically, we consider an…

In Internet of Things (IoT), the freshness of status updates is crucial for mission-critical applications. In this regard, it is suggested to quantify the freshness of updates by using Age of Information (AoI) from the receiver's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xijun Wang , Wenrui Lin , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

As 5G and Internet-of-Things (IoT) are deeply integrated into vertical industries such as autonomous driving and industrial robotics, timely status update is crucial for remote monitoring and control. In this regard, Age of Information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen