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We consider an information updating system where an information provider and an information receiver engage in an update process over time. Different from the existing literature where updates are countable (hard) and take effect either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

Age of Information (AoI) has become an important concept in communications, as it allows system designers to measure the freshness of the information available to remote monitoring or control processes. However, its definition tacitly…

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

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

In this research, we study the information freshness in M/G/1 queueing system with a single buffer and the server taking multiple vacations. This system has wide applications in communication systems. We aim to evaluate the information…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Jin Xu , I-Hong Hou , Natarajan Gautam

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

We consider an energy harvesting sensor that is sending measurement updates regarding some physical phenomenon to a destination. The sensor relies on energy harvested from nature to measure and send its updates, and is equipped with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus

Freshness of status update packets is essential for enabling services where a destination needs the most recent measurements of various sensors. In this paper, we study the information freshness of single-server multi-source queueing models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

We consider a source monitoring a stochastic process with a transmitter to transmit timely information through a wireless ON/OFF channel to a destination. We assume that once the source samples the data, the sampled data has to be processed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jayanth S , Nikolaos Pappas , Rajshekhar V Bhat

Having timely and fresh knowledge about the current state of information sources is critical in a variety of applications. In particular, a status update may arrive at the destination later than its generation time due to processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

Age of information (AoI), a notion that measures the information freshness, is an essential performance measure for time-critical applications in Internet of Things (IoT). With the surge of computing resources at the IoT devices, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xijun Wang , Minghao Fang , Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information is a new network performance metric that captures the freshness of information at end-users. This paper studies the age of information from a scheduling perspective. To that end, we consider a wireless broadcast network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Yu-Pin Hsu , Eytan Modiano , Lingjie Duan

We study the problem of optimizing the decisions of a preemptively capable transmitter to minimize the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) when the communication channel has a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we introduce a new performance metric in the framework of status updates that we will refer to as the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). This new metric deals with the shortcomings of both the Age of Information (AoI) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Ali Maatouk , Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

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

We consider an M/M/1 update-and-decide system where Poisson distributed decisions are made based on the received updates. We propose to characterize the freshness of the received updates at decision epochs with Age upon Decisions (AuD).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Shanyun Liu , Pingyi Fan

In this paper, we study how to take samples at a data source for improving the freshness of received data samples at a remote receiver. We use non-linear functions of the age of information to measure data freshness, and provide a survey of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

Age of Information is a newly introduced metric, getting vivid attention for measuring the freshness of information in real-time networks. This parameter has evolved to guarantee the reception of timely information from the latest status…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

This paper studies semantics-aware remote estimation of Markov sources. We leverage two complementary information attributes: the urgency of lasting impact, which quantifies the significance of consecutive estimation error at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

A new timeliness metric, called Age-of-Information (AoI), has recently attracted a lot of research interests for real-time applications with information updates. It has been extensively studied for various queueing models based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhongdong Liu , Yu Sang , Bin Li , Bo Ji