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In this work, we investigate the design of information-update systems, where incoming update packets are forwarded to a remote destination through multiple servers (each server can be viewed as a wireless channel). One important performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

We consider a scenario where a monitor is interested in being up to date with respect to the status of some system which is not directly accessible to this monitor. However, we assume a source node has access to the status and can send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser

In this paper, we study an age of information minimization problem, where multiple flows of update packets are sent over multiple servers to their destinations. Two online scheduling policies are proposed. When the packet generation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Sastry Kompella

In a communication setting where multiple sources share a single channel to provide status updates to a remote monitor, source transmissions need to be scheduled appropriately to maintain timely communication between each of the sources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

The age of information (AoI) performance analysis is essential for evaluating the information freshness in the large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. This work proposes the earliest analysis of the mean AoI (MAoI) performance of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Ying Dong , Hang Xiao , Haonan Hu , Jiliang Zhang , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

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

We consider an information update system consisting of $N$ sources sending status packets at random instances according to a Poisson process to a remote monitor through a single server. We assume a heteregeneous server with exponentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ege Orkun Gamgam , Nail Akar

Age-of-Information (AoI), or simply age, which measures the data freshness, is essential for real-time Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, energy saving is urgently required by many energy-constrained IoT devices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jie Gong , Jianhang Zhu , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

This paper introduces a general framework to analyze and optimize age-of-information (AoI) in CSMA protocols for distributed uplink transmissions. The proposed framework combines two theoretical approaches. First, it employs second-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Siqi Fan , I-Hong Hou

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

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

This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We study age of information (AoI) in a single-source dual-server status update system for the generate at will (GAW) scenario, consisting of an information source, dual servers, and a monitor. For this system, the method of stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

An energy-harvesting sensor node that is sending status updates to a destination is considered. The sensor is equipped with a battery of finite size to save its incoming energy, and consumes one unit of energy per status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we aim to establish the connection between Age of Information (AoI) in network theory, information uncertainty in information theory, and detection delay in time series analysis. We consider a dynamic system whose state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Consider a message processing system whose objective is to produce the most current information as measured by the quantity known as "age of information". We have argued in previous papers that if we are allowed to design the message…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-17 George Kesidis , Takis Konstantopoulos , Michael Zazanis