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Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

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

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

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

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

We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

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

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. It captures the delay together with packet loss and packet generation rate. However, the existing literature focuses on average or peak AoI and neglects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Arled Papa , Wolfgang Kellerer

Age of information (AoI) is a time-evolving measure of information freshness, that tracks the time since the last received fresh update was generated. Analyzing peak and average AoI, two time average metrics of AoI, for various continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we study how to collect fresh data in time-varying networks with power constrained users. We measure data freshness from the perspective of the central controller by using the metric Age of Information, namely the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a critical metric for network applications. Existing works mostly address optimization with homogeneous AoI requirements, which is different from practice. In this work, we optimize uplink scheduling for an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Qing-Shan Jia , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the topic has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hasan Burhan Beytur , Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

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

The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a metric that can combine the freshness of the information available to a gateway in an Internet of Things (IoT) network with the accuracy of that information. As such, minimizing the AoII can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Anupam Nayak , Anders E. Kalør , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

The freshness of sensor data is critical for all types of cyber-physical systems. An established measure for quantifying data freshness is the Age-of-Information (AoI), which has been the subject of extensive research. Recently, there has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Markus Fidler , Flavio Gallistl , Jaya Prakash Champati , Joerg Widmer

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

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