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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 consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

We propose a variant of the Age of Information (AoI) metric called Channel-Aware Age of Information (CA-AoI). Unlike AoI, CA-AoI takes into account the channel conditions between the source and the intended destination to compute the "age"…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Bhishma Dedhia , Sharayu Moharir

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

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

We consider the scenario where a sender periodically sends a batch of data to a receiver over a multi-hop network, possibly using multiple paths. Our objective is to minimize peak/average Age-of-Information (AoI) subject to throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Qingyu Liu , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

We consider the peak age-of-information (PAoI) in an M/M/1 queueing system with packet delivery error, i.e., update packets can get lost during transmissions to their destination. We focus on two types of policies, one is to adopt…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Kun Chen , Longbo Huang

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

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

An optimal control problem with heterogeneous servers to minimize the average age of information (AoI) is considered. Each server maintains a separate queue, and each packet arriving to the system is randomly routed to one of the servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anhad Bhati , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Rahul Vaze

The study of optimal preemption policies for status update systems has been a recurring topic in the age of information (AoI) literature, where threshold-based structures have been shown to be optimal under a generate-at-will update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

The time average expected age of information (AoI) is studied for status updates sent over an error-prone channel from an energy-harvesting transmitter with a finite-capacity battery. Energy cost of sensing new status updates is taken into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy

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

To support emerging real-time monitoring and control applications, the timeliness of computation results is of critical importance to mobile-edge computing (MEC) systems. We propose a performance metric called age of task (AoT) based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Yunzheng Tao , Baoling Liu , Ping Zhang

The paper deals with Age of Information (AoI) in a network of multiple sources and parallel queues with buffering capabilities, preemption in service and losses in served packets. The queues do not communicate between each other and the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Josu Doncel , Mohamad Assaad

In this paper, we explore the potential of server waiting before packet transmission in improving the Age of Information (AoI) in status update systems. We consider a non-preemptive queue with Poisson arrivals and independent general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

In cyber-physical systems, as in 5G and beyond, multiple physical processes require timely online monitoring at a remote device. There, the received information is used to estimate current and future process values. When transmitting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefan Roth , Ahmed Arafa , H. Vincent Poor , Aydin Sezgin

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 investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to intended receivers over shared spectrum. We establish an analytical framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

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