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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

Timely information updates are critical to time-sensitive applications in networked monitoring and control systems. In this paper, the problem of real-time status update is considered for a cognitive radio network (CRN), in which the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yao Zhao , Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Xiliang Luo

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is particularly relevant in systems where real time responses to anomalies are required, such as natural disaster alerts, cybersecurity warnings, or medical emergency notifications. Keeping system control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

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

We consider an energy harvesting source equipped with a finite battery, which needs to send timely status updates to a remote destination. The timeliness of status updates is measured by a non-decreasing penalty function of the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal , Volkan Mutlu

This paper analyzes the age of information (AoI) for a pinching antenna (PA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with probabilistic line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. AoI is a key metric for evaluating the freshness of status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Huimin Hu , Ruihong Jiang , Yanqing Xu , Jiarui Ma , Fang Fang

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

Scheduling updates from remote sensors is a key task for the internet of things (IoT). In this context, the mathematical concept of age of information is often used to capture the freshness of received data. This is, in turn, relevant to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia

We consider the problem of timely exchange of updates between a central station and a set of ground terminals $V$, via a mobile agent that traverses across the ground terminals along a mobility graph $G = (V, E)$. We design the trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

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

This paper considers a communication system where a source sends time-sensitive information to its destination via queues in tandem. We assume that the arrival process as well as the service process (of each server) are memoryless, and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ashirwad Sinha , Shubhransh Singhvi , Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. Since AoI combines packet generation frequency, packet loss, and delay into a single metric, it has received a lot of research attention as an interface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this letter, we propose reliable covert communications with the aim of minimizing age of information (AoI) in the time-varying channels. We named the time duration that channel state information (CSI) is valid as a new metric, as age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shima Salar Hosseini , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari

In this paper, we consider transmission scheduling in a status update system, where updates are generated periodically and transmitted over a Gilbert-Elliott fading channel. The goal is to minimize the long-run average age of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

We consider a multi-source relaying system where the sources independently and randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a bufferaided relay through unreliable links. We formulate a stochastic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

This work studies the average age of information (AoI) of a monitoring system in which two sensors are sensing the same physical process and update status to a common monitor using their dedicated channels. Generally, using redundant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianqing Yang , Zhengchuan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Yunjian Jia , Tony Q. S. Quek

We study the scheduling problem for a multi-source single-server generate-at-will (GAW) status update system with sources having heterogeneous service times and weights, with the goal of minimizing the weighted sum age of information (AoI).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ege Orkun Gamgam , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

We study cyclic scheduling for generate-at-will (GAW) multi-source status update systems with heterogeneous service times and packet drop probabilities, with the aim of minimizing the weighted sum age of information (AoI), called system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Nail Akar , Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song