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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

In this paper we analyze the distribution of the Age of Information (AoI) of a tagged data stream sharing a processor with a set of other data streams. We do so in the highly general setting in which the interarrival times pertaining to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yoshiaki Inoue , Michel Mandjes

Effective control of time-sensitive industrial applications depends on the real-time transmission of data from underlying sensors. Quantifying the data freshness through age of information (AoI), in this paper, we jointly design sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yali Cao , Yinglei Teng , Mei Song , Nan Wang

In this paper, we study the timeliness of actions in communication systems where actuation is constrained by control permissions or energy availability. Building on the Age of Actuation (AoA) metric, which quantifies the timeliness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

The age of information (AoI) performance metric for point-to-point wireless communication systems is analytically studied under Rician-faded channels and when the receiver is equipped with multiple antennas. The general scenario of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Guanghua Yang

This paper studies the minimum-age scheduling problem in a wireless sensor network where an access point (AP) monitors the state of an object via a set of sensors. The freshness of the sensed state, measured by the age-of-information (AoI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yulin Shao , Qi Cao , Soung Chang Liew , He Chen

We consider a wireless broadcast network with a base station sending time-sensitive information to a number of clients through unreliable channels. The Age of Information (AoI), namely the amount of time that elapsed since the most recently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Igor Kadota , Abhishek Sinha , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Rahul Singh , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Stringent demands for timely information delivery, driven by the widespread adoption of real-time applications and the Internet of Things, have established the age of information (AoI) as a critical metric for quantifying data freshness.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Muthukrishnan Senthilkumar , Aresh Dadlani , Hina Tabassum

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) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro

In this paper, we adopt the fluid limits to analyze Age of Information (AoI) in a wireless multiaccess network with many users. We consider the case wherein users have heterogeneous i.i.d. channel conditions and the statuses are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zhiyuan Jiang

This paper considers an uplink Internet of Things system with synchronous periodic traffic, where multiple devices generate their status updates at the beginning of each global frame and attempt to send them to a common access point. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yijin Zhang

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

This paper investigates an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which multiple devices are observing some object's physical parameters and then offloading their observations back to the BS in time with opportunistic channel access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Wang , Rongfei Fan

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

In this paper, we introduce a new data freshness metric, relative Age of Information (rAoI), and examine it in a single server system with various packet management schemes. The (classical) AoI metric was introduced to measure the staleness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

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 proven to be a useful metric in networked systems where timely information updates are of importance. In the literature, minimizing "average age" has received considerable attention. However, various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic