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We consider a system consisting of a library of time-varying files, a server that at all times observes the current version of all files, and a cache that at the beginning stores the current versions of all files but afterwards has to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Haoyue Tang , Philippe Ciblat , Jintao Wang , Michele Wigger , Roy Yates

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) networks enable large-scale data collection by leveraging the ubiquity of mobile devices. However, frequent sensing and data transmission can lead to significant resource consumption. To mitigate this issue, edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kexin Shi , Yaru Fu , Yongna Guo , Fu Lee Wang , Yan Zhang

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

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee

This paper considers a cooperative Internet of Things (IoT) system with a source aiming to transmit randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible under the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bohai Li , Qian Wang , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we analyze the average age of information (AoI) and the average peak AoI (PAoI) of a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits computation-intensive packets to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhifeng Tang , Zhuo Sun , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

Ocean exploration utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a significant research focus. However, underwater tasks have mostly failed due to the observation delay caused by information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jingzehua Xu , Yimian Ding , Yiyuan Yang , Guanwen Xie , Shuai Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a pivotal technology in communication, offering an alternative path that significantly enhances the link quality in wireless communication environments. In this paper, we propose a RIS-assisted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kangwei Qi , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

This work introduces a framework for analyzing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a real-time monitoring system with a generic discrete-time Markov source. We study a noisy communication system employing a hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

This paper considers an uplink Internet of Things system with synchronous periodic traffic, where multiple devices generate their status updates at the beginning of each global frame and attempt to send them to a common access point. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yijin Zhang

Content caching at the network edge has been considered an effective way of mitigating backhaul load and improving user experience. Caching efficiency can be enhanced by content recommendation and by keeping the information fresh. To the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

The Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically assume that packets enter the monitored system with zero age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fernando Miguelez , Urtzi Ayesta , Josu Doncel , Maria Dolores Ugarte

As development Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) technology and demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increase, there is a growing need for real-time data and communication by vehicle users. Traditional request-based methods face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Ke Xiong

The age of information (AoI) is used to measure the freshness of the data. In IoT networks, the traditional resource management schemes rely on a message exchange between the devices and the base station (BS) before communication which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

We consider a wireless network with a base station serving multiple traffic streams to different destinations. Packets from each stream arrive to the base station according to a stochastic process and are enqueued in a separate (per stream)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Igor Kadota , Eytan Modiano

The timely sharing of raw sensing information in the vehicular networks (VNETs) is essential to safety. In order to improve the freshness of sensing information, joint scheduling of multi-dimensional resources such as communication and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ning Jiang , Shi Yan , Zhuohan Liu , Chunjing Hu , Mugen Peng

This work studies the information freshness of the vehicle-to-infrastructure status updating in Internet of vehicles, which is modeled as a multi-source Ber/Geo/1/1 preemptive queueing system with heterogeneous service time. We pay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tianci Zhang , Zhengchuan Chen

Exploiting the computational heterogeneity of mobile devices and edge nodes, mobile edge computation (MEC) provides an efficient approach to achieving real-time applications that are sensitive to information freshness, by offloading tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shuo Chen , Ning Yang , Meng Zhang , Jun Wang

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…