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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

Consider an energy harvesting node where generation of a status update message takes non-negligible time due to sensing, computing and analytics operations performed before making update transmissions. The node has to harmonize its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omur Ozel , Parisa Rafiee

This paper considers a downlink system where an access point sends the monitored status of multiple sources to multiple users. By jointly accounting for imperfect feedback and constrained transmission rate, which are key limited factors in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuqing Zhu , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Yan Lin , Yijin Zhang

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

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Lots of real-time applications over Internet of things (IoT)-based status update systems have imperative demands on information freshness, which is usually evaluated by age of information (AoI). Compared to the average AoI and peak AoI…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tianci Zhang , Shutong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Yunjian Jia , Min Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

Age of information (AoI) measures information freshness at the receiver. AoI may provide insights into quality of service in communication systems. For this reason, it has been used as a cross-layer metric for wireless communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this paper, the minimization of time-averaged age-of-information (AoI) in an energy harvesting (EH) source-equipped remote sensing setting is considered. The EH source opportunistically samples one or multiple processes over discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Akanksha Jaiswal , Arpan Chattopadhyay

In this paper, we consider a problem of sampling a Wiener process, with samples forwarded to a remote estimator over a channel that is modeled as a queue. The estimator reconstructs an estimate of the real-time signal value from causally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yin Sun , Yury Polyanskiy , Elif Uysal

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

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

In this paper, we consider a system where multiple low-power sensors communicate timely information about a random process to a sink. The sensors share orthogonal subchannels to transmit such information in the form of status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu , Nikolaos Pappas

The age of incorrect information (AoII) process which keeps track of the time since the source and monitor processes are in sync, has been extensively used in remote estimation problems. In this paper, we consider a push-based remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

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…

We address the problem of how to optimally schedule data packets over an unreliable channel in order to minimize the estimation error of a simple-to-implement remote linear estimator using a constant "Kalman'' gain to track the state of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Rahul Singh , Gopal Krishna Kamath , P. R. Kumar

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

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

We analyze Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where nodes use a spatially adaptive random access scheme to send status updates to a central base station. We show that the set of achievable AoI in this setting is convex, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

This study considers a wireless network where an access point (AP) broadcasts timely updates to numerous mobile users. The timeliness of information owned by a user is characterized by the age of information. Frequently broadcasting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Yu-Pin Hsu

Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhengchuan Chen , Yi Qu , Nikolaos Pappas , Chaowei Tang , Min Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek