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We investigate the long-term scheduling and power control scheme for a wirelessly powered cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) network which consists of distributed access points (APs) and large number of sensors. In each time slot, a subset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Xinhua Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin

For a remote estimation system, we study age of incorrect information (AoII), which is a recently proposed semantic-aware freshness metric. In particular, we assume an information source observing a discrete-time finite-state Markov chain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

As the most well-known application of the Internet of Things (IoT), remote monitoring is now pervasive. In these monitoring applications, information usually has a higher value when it is fresher. A new metric, termed the age of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 He Chen , Yifan Gu , Soung-Chang Liew

This paper considers multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to assist sensing data transmissions from the ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS). Each UAV collects sensing data from the GUs and then forwards the sensing data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yusi Long , Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin , Shen

Age of Information (AoI) is a key metric to understand data freshness in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this paper we analyse an intermittently-powered IoT sensor - with mixed-memory (volatile and non-volatile) architecture - that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 James Scott Broadhead , Przemysław Pawełczak

We consider the problem of minimizing age in a multihop wireless network. There are multiple source-destination pairs, transmitting data through multiple wireless channels, over multiple hops. We propose a network control policy which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

This study investigates a cognitive shared access network with energy harvesting capabilities operating under Age of Information (AoI) constraints for the primary user. Secondary transmitters are spatially distributed according to a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Georgios Smpokos , Dionysis Xenakis , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper considers a large-scale wireless network consisting of source-destination (SD) pairs, where the sources send time-sensitive information, termed status updates, to their corresponding destinations in a time-slotted fashion. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Praful D. Mankar , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

We study the optimal transmission and scheduling policy for a transmitter (source) communicating with two gossiping receivers aiming at tracking the source's status over time using the age of information (AoI) metric. Gossiping enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider the cellular Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where UAVs sense data for multiple tasks and transmit the data to the base station (BS). To quantify the "freshness" of the data at the BS, we bring in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

We investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to the intended receivers over a shared spectrum. Due to interference, the dynamics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Age of incorrect information (AoII) is a recently proposed freshness and mismatch metric that penalizes an incorrect estimation along with its duration. Therefore, keeping track of AoII requires the knowledge of both the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

A sensing policy for the restless multi-armed bandit problem with stationary but unknown reward distributions is proposed. The work is presented in the context of cognitive radios in which the bandit problem arises when deciding which parts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Jan Oksanen , Visa Koivunen , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a discrete-time multi-channel network where the destination collects time-sensitive packets from multiple sources with sided channel information. The popular metric, Age of Information (AoI), is applied to measure the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Xiaoqing Wang , Jian Song

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…

Efficient multiple access remains a key challenge for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) networks comprising a large set of devices with sporadic activation, thus motivating significant research in the last few years. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ophelia Giannini , Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Roberto Verdone , Onel Alcaraz López

Optimal experimental design (OED) concerns itself with identifying ideal methods of data collection, e.g.~via sensor placement. The \emph{greedy algorithm}, that is, placing one sensor at a time, in an iteratively optimal manner, stands as…

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