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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

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

Age of Information (AoI), measures the time elapsed since the last received information packet was generated at the source. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for single-hop flows in a wireless network, under pairwise interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we study the interplay between delay violation probability and average Age of Information (AoI) in a two-user wireless multiple access channel with multipacket reception (MPR) capability. We consider a system in which users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

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

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently introduced metric for network operation with sensor applications which quantifies the freshness of data. In the context of networked control systems (NCSs), we compare the worth of the AoI metric with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Markus Klügel , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this paper, we investigate multi-connectivity schemes in the context of status update systems with short payloads. As the performance metric, we use the Age of Information (AoI). Due to short payloads, transmission errors must be taken…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Mojan Wegener , Marcel A. Mross , Eduard A. Jorswieck

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

Dense indoor WLANs increasingly rely on multiple access points (APs) operating over partially overlapping spectrum to support latency-sensitive applications. In such deployments, simultaneous transmissions across APs create co-channel and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ananth Ram Rajagopalan , Jiahui Ni , Vishrant Tripathi

Age of information (AoI) is one of the key performance metrics for Internet of things (IoT) systems. Timely status updates are essential for many IoT applications; however, they are subject to strict constraints related on the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

This paper estimates the freshness of the information in a wireless relay communication system that employs simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) operating under ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)…

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

This paper investigates the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a communication system whose channel suffers a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to send updates…

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

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

The Age of Information (AoI) is an end-to-end metric frequently used to understand how "fresh" the information about a remote system is. In this paper, we present an experimental study of the relationship between AoI and the energy spent by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Federico Cristofani , Valerio Luconi , Alessio Vecchio

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

Information freshness is a status update timeliness indicator of utmost importance to several real-time applications, such as connected and autonomous driving. The Ageof- Information (AoI) metric is widely considered as useful to quantify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Mustafa Emara , Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a key metric for assessing data freshness in IoT applications, where a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a monitor. Such systems often rely on random access protocols based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

We consider a status updating system where having timely knowledge about the information source at the destination (monitor) is of utmost importance. By utilizing the age of information (AoI) metric, the freshness of status update over an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang