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Many systems necessitate frequent and consistent updates of a specific information. Often this information is updated regularly, where an old packet becomes completely obsolete in the presence of a new packet. In this context, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shiksha Singhal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Vidya Shankar

In networks with intermittent connectivity, such as mobile, aerial, and space systems, maintaining information freshness is complicated by time-varying arrivals, service disruptions, and interactions among traffic classes with different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Burak Karasakal , Aimin Li , Elif Uysal

Consider an energy harvesting (EH) sensor that continuously monitors a system and sends time-stamped status update to a destination. The sensor harvests energy from nature and uses it to power its updating operations. The destination keeps…

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

In this paper, we study how to collect fresh data in time-varying networks with power constrained users. We measure data freshness from the perspective of the central controller by using the metric Age of Information, namely the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

We consider a status update system consisting of one source, one server, and one sink. The source generates packets according to a Poisson process and the packets are served according to a generally distributed service time. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mohammad Moltafet , Hamid R. Sadjadpour , Zouheir Rezki , Marian Codreanu , Roy D. Yates

We present an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the state-space distribution of an Age-of-Information network. Given enough computational resources, the evaluation can be performed to an arbitrary high precision. An…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Richard Schoeffauer , Gerhard Wunder

We consider an information update system where an information receiver requests updates from an information provider in order to minimize its age of information. The updates are generated at the information provider (transmitter) as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) in a system where physical sources produce independent discrete-time updates that are each observed by several sensors. We devise a model that is simple, but still capable to capture the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

Consider a stream of status updates generated by a source, where each update is of one of two types: high priority or ordinary (low priority). These updates are to be transmitted through a network to a monitor. However, the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser , Emre Telatar

We study age of information in multi-hop multi-cast cache-enabled networks where the inter-update times on the links are not necessarily exponentially distributed. We focus on the set of non-arithmetic distributions for inter-update times,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Priyanka Kaswan , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a communication system where a base station serves $N$ users, one user at a time, over a wireless channel. We consider the timeliness of the communication of each user via the age of information metric. A constrained adversary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Subhankar Banerjee , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a wireless network with a base station serving multiple traffic streams to different destinations. Packets from each stream arrive to the base station according to a stochastic process and are enqueued in a separate (per stream)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Igor Kadota , Eytan Modiano

We consider the problem of minimizing age in a multihop wireless network. There are multiple source-destination pairs, transmitting data through multiple wireless channels, over multiple hops. We propose a network control policy which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

New technologies for sensing and communication act as enablers for cooperative driving applications. Sensors are able to detect objects in the surrounding environment and information such as their current location is exchanged among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Julian Heinovski , Jorge Torres Gómez , Falko Dressler

This work investigates the probability that the delay and the peak-age of information exceed a desired threshold in a point-to-point communication system with short information packets. The packets are generated according to a stationary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Rahul Devassy , Giuseppe Durisi , Guido Carlo Ferrante , Osvaldo Simeone , Elif Uysal

We examine the age of information (AoI) of a status update system that incorporates energy harvesting and uses the slotted ALOHA protocol. We derive analytically the average AoI and the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro

We study the probability distribution of age of information (AoI) in arbitrary networks with memoryless service times. A source node generates packets following a Poisson process, and then the packets are forwarded across the network in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Rajai Nasser , Ibrahim Issa , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

We consider a single source-destination pair, where information updates arrive at the source at arbitrary time instants. For each update, its size, i.e. the service time required for complete transmission to the destination, is also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen