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There is a growing interest in analysing the freshness of data in networked systems. Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a popular metric to quantify this freshness at a given destination. There has been a significant research effort in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jaya Prakash Champati , Ramana R. Avula , Tobias J. Oechtering , James Gross

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

Age of information (AoI) is a performance metric that captures the freshness of status updates. While AoI has been studied thoroughly for point-to-point links, the impact of modern random-access protocols on this metric is still unclear. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We consider a network with multiple sources and a base station that send time-sensitive information to remote clients. The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) captures the freshness of the informative pieces of status update packets at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Muratcan Ayik , Elif Tugce Ceran , Elif Uysal

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

This paper investigates information freshness of multichannel access in information update systems. Age of information (AoI) is a fundamentally important metric to characterize information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jiaxin Liang , Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

The Age-of-Information (AoI) is a new performance metric recently proposed for measuring the freshness of information in information-update systems. In this work, we conduct a systematic and comparative study to investigate the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zhongdong Liu , Liang Huang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

The freshness of status information is of great importance for time-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A metric measuring status freshness is the age-of-information (AoI), which captures the time elapsed from the status being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Rui Li , Qian Ma , Jie Gong , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

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

Age of Information (AoI) is a recently defined quantity, which measures the freshness of information in a communication scheme. In this paper, we analyze a network that consists of a sensor node, an energy source and a receiver. The energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Navid Nouri , Darya Ardan , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi

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

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

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

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

Timely status updating is crucial for future applications that involve remote monitoring and control, such as autonomous driving and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Age of Information (AoI) is a newly appeared concept and metric to characterize the freshness of data. In this work, we study the delay and AoI in a multiple access channel (MAC) with two source nodes transmitting different types of data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

New technologies for sensing and communication act as enablers for cooperative driving applications. Sensors are able to detect objects in the surrounding environment and information such as their current location is exchanged among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Julian Heinovski , Jorge Torres Gómez , Falko Dressler

Scheduling updates from remote sensors is a key task for the internet of things (IoT). In this context, the mathematical concept of age of information is often used to capture the freshness of received data. This is, in turn, relevant to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia

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

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