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We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat

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 consider a status updating system where the transmitter sends status updates of the signal it monitors to the destination through a rate-limited link. We consider the scenario where the status of the monitored signal only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenghao Deng , Jing Yang , Changyong Pan

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

We consider an IoT sensing network with multiple users, multiple energy harvesting sensors, and a wireless edge node acting as a gateway between the users and sensors. The users request for updates about the value of physical processes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Mohammad Hatami , Mojtaba Jahandideh , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this paper, we investigate an amplify-and-forward (AF) based two-way cooperative status update system, where two sources aim to exchange status updates with each other as timely as possible with the help of a relay. Specifically, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Bohai Li , He Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Yonghui Li

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

Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

Age of information (AoI) is one of the key performance metrics for Internet of things (IoT) systems. Timely status updates are essential for many IoT applications; however, they are subject to strict constraints related on the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we consider a status update system, in which update packets are sent to the destination via a wireless medium that allows for multiple rates, where a higher rate also naturally corresponds to a higher error probability. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff

We study timely status updates of a real-time system in an adversarial setting. The system samples a physical process, and sends the samples from the source (e.g., a sensor) to the destination (e.g, a control center) through a channel. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yuanzhang Xiao , Yin Sun

A status updating communication system is examined, in which a transmitter communicates with a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to realize timely delivery of fresh data over time, which is assessed by an age-of-information (AoI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ahmed Arafa , Karim Banawan , Karim G. Seddik , H. Vincent Poor

Communication over a broadband fading channel powered by an energy harvesting transmitter is studied. Assuming non-causal knowledge of energy/data arrivals and channel gains, optimal transmission schemes are identified by taking into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Oner Orhan , Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip

The time average expected age of information (AoI) is studied for status updates sent from an energy-harvesting transmitter with a finite-capacity battery. The optimal scheduling policy is first studied under different feedback mechanisms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Elif Tuğçe Ceran , Deniz Gündüz , András György

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein

This paper considers a real-time status update system in which an energy harvesting (EH)-powered transmitter node observes some physical process, and sends its sensed measurements in the form of status updates to a destination node. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

A point-to-point wireless communication system in which the transmitter is equipped with an energy harvesting device and a rechargeable battery, is studied. Both the energy and the data arrivals at the transmitter are modeled as Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-31 Pol Blasco , Deniz Gündüz , Mischa Dohler

A status updating system is considered in which a variable length code is used to transmit messages to a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to optimize the codewords lengths such that successfully-decoded messages are timely. That…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ahmed Arafa , Richard D. Wesel

Age of Information is a new metric used in real-time status update tracking applications. It measures at the destination the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet. In this paper, we consider the co-existence of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Olga Vikhrova , Federico Chiariotti , Beatriz Soret , Giuseppe Araniti , Antonella Molinaro , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates the age of information (AoI) for a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) enabled network, where a sensor first scavenges energy from a wireless power station and then transmits the collected status update to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yang Lu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief