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Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for quantifying the freshness of information from the UE's perspective in a communication network. Recently, Kadota et al. [1] have proposed an index-type approximately optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Arunabh Srivastava , Abhishek Sinha , Krishna Jagannathan

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

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), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale and device heterogeneity grows, multimodal data have become ubiquitous. Meanwhile, evaluating the freshness of multimodal data is essential, as stale updates would delay task execution, degrade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ying Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Chao Yang , Kandaraj Piamrat , Stephan Sigg , Zheng Changr , Yusheng Ji

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Data collected and transmitted by Internet of things (IoT) devices are typically used for control and monitoring purposes; and hence, their timely delivery is of utmost importance for the underlying applications. However, IoT devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

The timeliness of collected information is essential for monitoring and control in data-driven intelligent infrastructures. It is typically quantified using the Age of Information (AoI) metric, which has been widely adopted to capture the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shih-Kai Chou , Maice Costa , Mihael Mohorčič , Jernej Hribar

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

Timely message delivery is a key enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to support wide range of context-dependent applications. Conventional time-related metrics, such as delay, fails to characterize the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch

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

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

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

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

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive devices are deployed, which poses severe challenges on access networks due to limited communication resources. When massive users contend for access, the information freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Dongliang Zhang , Jie Gong , Xiang 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

The widespread adoption of age of information (AoI) as a meaningful and analytically tractable information freshness metric has led to a wide body of work on the timing performance of Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, the spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Federico Chiariotti , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

As an emerging metric of communication systems, Age of Information (AoI) has been derived to have a critical impact in networked control systems with unreliable information links. This work sets up a novel model of outage probability in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Siyu Yuan , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yao Zhu , Hans D. Schotten

The age of information (AoI) performance analysis is essential for evaluating the information freshness in the large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. This work proposes the earliest analysis of the mean AoI (MAoI) performance of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Ying Dong , Hang Xiao , Haonan Hu , Jiliang Zhang , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

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