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In this paper, we study age of information (AoI) optimization for status updating in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a discrete-time architecture in which a base station interacts with a physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Marco Zanni , Mohamad Assaad , Touraj Soleymani

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. We assume updates arrive randomly at the source according to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

In this work, we combine the two notions of timely delivery of information in order to study their interplay; namely, deadline-constrained packet delivery due to latency constraints and freshness of information at the destination. More…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Nomikos , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power source nodes to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the frequent transmission of large amounts of data over wireless networks should meet the stringent timeliness requirements. Particularly, the freshness of packet status updates has a significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Yuang Chen , Fengqian Guo , Chang Wu , Shuyi Liu , Hancheng Lu , Chang Wen Chen

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 (e.g. delay and jitter) fails to characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch

This work studies the average age of information (AoI) of a monitoring system in which two sensors are sensing the same physical process and update status to a common monitor using their dedicated channels. Generally, using redundant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianqing Yang , Zhengchuan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Yunjian Jia , Tony Q. S. Quek

We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study a pull-based status update communication model where a source node submits update packets to a channel with random transmission delay, at times requested by a remote destination node. The objective is to minimize the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 M. Emrullah Ildiz , Orhan T. Yavascan , Elif Uysal , O. Tugberk Kartal

Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

This paper considers a multi-source real-time updating system in which an energy harvesting (EH)-powered transmitter node has multiple sources generating status updates about several physical processes. The status updates are then sent to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

The Age of Information (AoI) is an end-to-end metric frequently used to understand how "fresh" the information about a remote system is. In this paper, we present an experimental study of the relationship between AoI and the energy spent by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Federico Cristofani , Valerio Luconi , Alessio Vecchio

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

Due to flexibility, autonomy and low operational cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as fixed aerial base stations, are increasingly being used as \textit{relays} to collect time-sensitive information (i.e., status updates) from IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Biplav Choudhury , Vijay K. Shah , Aidin Ferdowsi , Jeffrey H. Reed , Y. Thomas Hou

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 is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas