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We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

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

The effective operation of time-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications requires real-time reporting of fresh status information of underlying physical processes. In this paper, a real-time IoT monitoring system is considered, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

We study push-based sampling and transmission policies for a status update system consisting of a general finite-state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) information source with known dynamics, with the goal of minimizing the average age…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

This paper studies the remote estimation of multiple Markov sources over a lossy and rate-constrained channel. Unlike most existing studies that treat all source states equally, we exploit the \emph{semantics of information} and consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

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

Consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. In order to measure the "freshness" of the status information available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

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

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

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

Optimal queueing control of multi-hop networks remains a challenging problem even in the simplest scenarios. In this paper, we consider a two-hop half-duplex relaying system with random channel connectivity. The relay is equipped with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Bo Zhou , Ying Cui , Meixia Tao

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

In this work, we consider the problem of jointly minimizing the average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information (AoI) constraints. Errors in the transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

We study a status update system with a source, a sampler, a transmitter, and a monitor. The source governs a stochastic process that the monitor wants to observe in a timely manner. To achieve this, the sampler samples fresh update packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Subhankar Banerjee , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers a cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) system with a source aiming to transmit randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible under the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bohai Li , Qian Wang , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

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