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In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

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We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of moments of the steady-state queue in polling systems operating under the binomial-exhaustive policy (BEP). We assume that the server switches between the different buffers according to…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Yue Hu , Jing Dong , Ohad Perry

Herein, minimization of time-averaged age-of-information (AoI) in an energy harvesting (EH) source setting is considered. The EH source opportunistically samples one or multiple processes over discrete time instants and sends the status…

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A source submits status updates to a network for delivery to a destination monitor. Updates follow a route through a series of network nodes. Each node is a last-come-first-served queue supporting preemption in service. We characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Roy D. Yates

Use of multi-path network topologies has become a prominent technique to assert timeliness in terms of age of information (AoI) and to improve resilience to link disruptions in communication systems. However, establishing multiple dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Timeliness is an emerging requirement for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In IoT networks, where a large-number of nodes are distributed, severe interference may incur during the transmission phase which causes age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xinghua Sun , Fangming Zhao , Howard H. Yang , Wen Zhan , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

The Age-of-Information (AoI) has recently been proposed as an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. Prior studies on AoI optimization often consider a Push model, which is concerned…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Yu Sang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

We consider a multi-source relaying system where the sources independently and randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a bufferaided relay through unreliable links. We formulate a stochastic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In standard autoregressive generation, an LLM predicts the next-token distribution, samples a discrete token, and then discards the distribution, passing only the sampled token as new input. To preserve this distribution's rich information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yufan Zhuang , Liyuan Liu , Chandan Singh , Jingbo Shang , Jianfeng Gao

In this paper, we consider a status updating system where updates are generated at a constant rate at $K$ sources and sent to the corresponding recipients through a noise-free broadcast channel. We assume that perfect channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Timely status updating is the premise of emerging interaction-based applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Using redundant devices to update the status of interest is a promising method to improve the timeliness of information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhengchuan Chen , Kang Lang , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Zhong Tian , Tony Q. S. Quek

Information freshness is crucial for time-critical IoT applications, e.g., monitoring and control systems. We consider an IoT status update system with multiple users, multiple energy harvesting sensors, and a wireless edge node. The users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Mohammad Hatami , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

This paper investigates the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a communication system whose channel suffers a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to send updates…

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In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

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

We consider a general $k$ dimensional discounted infinite server queues process (alternatively, an Incurred But Not Reported (IBNR) claim process) where the multivariate inputs (claims) are given by a $k$ dimensional finite state Markov…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Landy Rabehasaina , Jae-Kyung Woo

We consider an energy harvesting source equipped with a finite battery, which needs to send timely status updates to a remote destination. The timeliness of status updates is measured by a non-decreasing penalty function of the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal , Volkan Mutlu

Network calculus is a min-plus system theory for performance evaluation of queuing networks. Its elegance stems from intuitive convolution formulas for concatenation of deterministic servers. Recent research dispenses with the worst-case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Markus Fidler

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