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In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang

Many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications rely on information collected by sensor nodes where the freshness of information is an important criterion. \textit{Age of Information} (AoI) is a metric that quantifies information…

The optimal transmission strategy to minimize the weighted combination of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption is studied in this paper. It is assumed that the status update information is obtained and transmitted at fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Haitao Huang , Deli Qiao , M. Cenk Gursoy

This paper focuses on optimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) in device-to-device (D2D) networks through age-aware link scheduling. The problem is naturally formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP). However, finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Lixin Wang , Qian Wang , He Chen , Shidong Zhou

Links in practical systems, such as satellite--terrestrial integrated networks, exhibit distinct delay distributions, intermittent availability, and heterogeneous energy costs. These characteristics pose significant challenges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Adem Utku Atasayar , Aimin Li , Çağrı Arı , Elif Uysal

The proliferation of mobile devices and real-time status updating applications has motivated the optimization of data freshness in the context of age of information (AoI). Meanwhile, increasing computational demands have inspired research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mengqiu Zhou , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Roy D. Yates

We consider a scheduling problem pertinent to a base station (BS) that serves heterogeneous users (UEs). We focus on a downlink model, with users that are either interested in large throughput, low latency (the time difference between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kumar Saurav , Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva

Age-of-Information (AoI) is an application layer metric that has been widely adopted to quantify the information freshness of each information source. However, few works address the impact of probabilistic transmission failures on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Chenchen Fu , Vincent Chau , Xiang Liu , Jianping Wang , Junzhou Luo

This paper characterizes the structure of the Age of Information (AoI)-optimal policy in wireless powered communication systems while accounting for the time and energy costs of generating status updates at the source nodes. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

We consider a wireless uplink network consisting of multiple end devices and an access point (AP). Each device monitors a physical process with stochastic arrival of status updates and sends these updates to the AP over a shared channel.…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jingwei Liu , Rui Zhang , Aoyu Gong , He Chen

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

Age of information (AoI) and reliability are two critical metrics to support real-time applications in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These metrics reflect different concepts of timely delivery of sensor information. Monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hossam Farag , Syed Muhammad Ali , Cedomir Stefanovic

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

Monitoring a process/phenomenon of specific interest is prevalent in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), remote healthcare, smart buildings, intelligent transport, industry 4.0, etc. A key building block of the monitoring system is a sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Shivang Garde , Jaya Prakash Champati , Arpan Chattopadhyay

Ocean exploration utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a significant research focus. However, underwater tasks have mostly failed due to the observation delay caused by information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jingzehua Xu , Yimian Ding , Yiyuan Yang , Guanwen Xie , Shuai Zhang

As an emerging metric for the timeliness of information delivery, Age-of-Information (AoI) raises a special interest in the research area of tolerance-critical communications, wherein sufficiently short blocklength is usually adopted as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yao Zhu , Hans D. Schotten

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Akanksha Jaiswal , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Amokh Varma