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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

This paper addresses robust communication on a fading relay channel in which the relay is connected to the decoder via an out-of-band digital link of limited capacity. Both the source-to-relay and the source-to-destination links are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

A new coding and queue management algorithm is proposed for communication networks that employ linear network coding. The algorithm has the feature that the encoding process is truly online, as opposed to a block-by-block approach. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jay Kumar Sundararajan , Devavrat Shah , Muriel Médard

In this paper, we propose a practical implementation of the Dynamic Decode and Forward (DDF) protocol based on rateless codes and HARQ. We define the macro diversity order of a transmission from several intermittent sources to a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mélanie Plainchault , Nicolas Gresset , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman

This paper studies the performance of hybrid-ARQ (automatic repeat request) in Rayleigh block fading channels. The long-term average transmitted rate is analyzed in a fast-fading scenario where the transmitter only has knowledge of channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-17 Peng Wu , Nihar Jindal

With the rise of critical machine-to-machine applications, next generation wireless communication systems must be designed with strict constraints on the latency and reliability. A key question in this context relates to channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Sebastian Schiessl , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , Mikael Skoglund , James Gross

This paper proposes an adaptive multi-mode transmission strategy to improve the spectral efficiency achieved in the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with delayed and quantized channel state information. The adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Zhang , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) via a shared, error-free channel with limited bandwidth. The status updates arrive at each node randomly. We use the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yuqiao He , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jian Song

A flexible incremental redundancy hybrid auto- mated repeat request (IR-HARQ) scheme for polar codes is proposed based on dynamically frozen bits and the quasi-uniform puncturing (QUP) algorithm. The length of each transmission is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Peihong Yuan , Fabian Steiner , Tobias Prinz , Georg Böcherer

Communication is a core enabler for multi-robot systems (MRS), providing the mechanism through which robots exchange state information, coordinate actions, and satisfy safety constraints. While many MRS autonomy algorithms assume reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Anil Zaher , Kiril Solovey , Alejandro Cohen

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) operate in highly dynamic environments characterized by high mobility, time-varying channel conditions, and frequent network disruptions. Addressing these challenges, this paper presents a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Weian Guo , Wuzhao Li , Li Li , Lun Zhang , Dongyang Li

Recent studies have shown that retransmissions can cause heavy-tailed transmission delays even when packet sizes are light-tailed. Moreover, the impact of heavy-tailed delays persists even when packets size are upper bounded. The key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Yang Yang , Jian Tan , Ness B. Shroff , Hesham El-Gamal

Assuming noisy feedback channels, this paper investigates the data transmission efficiency and robustness of different automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes using adaptive power allocation. Considering different block-fading channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-16 Behrooz Makki , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Thomas Eriksson

We consider the data-driven dictionary learning problem. The goal is to seek an over-complete dictionary from which every training signal can be best approximated by a linear combination of only a few codewords. This task is often achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Wei Dai , Tao Xu , Wenwu Wang

Wireless communications for status update are becoming increasingly important, especially for machine-type control applications. Existing work has been mainly focused on Age of Information (AoI) optimizations. In this paper, a status-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhiyuan Jiang , Zixu Cao , Siyu Fu , Fei Peng , Shan Cao , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

We propose two schemes for selective-repeat ARQ protocols over packet erasure channels with unreliable feedback: (i) a hybrid ARQ protocol with soft combining at the receiver, and (ii) a coded ARQ protocol, by building on the uncoded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Edmund M. Yeh

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

Recurrently connected neuron populations play key roles in sensory perception and memory storage across various brain regions. While these populations are often assumed to encode information through firing rates, this method becomes…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Mauricio Girardi-Schappo , Leonard Maler , André Longtin

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

Characterization of the delay profile of systems employing random linear network coding is important for the reliable provision of broadcast services. Previous studies focused on network coding over large finite fields or developed Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou , Andrea Tassi