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With the rapid growth of real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the need for fresh information has surged. Age of Information (AoI) is a tailor-made metric to characterize the information freshness perceived by the devices. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jingzhou Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

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

We consider a multi-source network with a common monitor, where fresh updates are generated at each source, following a Poisson process. At any time, at most one source can transmit its update to the monitor, and transmission time for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Kumar Saurav

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

Age of information (AoI), a notion that measures the information freshness, is an essential performance measure for time-critical applications in Internet of Things (IoT). With the surge of computing resources at the IoT devices, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xijun Wang , Minghao Fang , Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age-of-information (AoI) is a newly proposed performance metric of information freshness. It differs from the traditional delay metric, because it is destination centric and measures the time that elapsed since the last received fresh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

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

In this work, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Roy D. Yates , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

This paper investigates an information update system in which a mobile device monitors a physical process and sends status updates to an access point (AP). A fundamental trade-off arises between the timeliness of the information maintained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yu-Pin Hsu , Yi-Hsuan Tseng

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. While Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

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

Many systems necessitate frequent and consistent updates of a specific information. Often this information is updated regularly, where an old packet becomes completely obsolete in the presence of a new packet. In this context, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shiksha Singhal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Vidya Shankar

Consider a network where a wireless base station (BS) connects multiple source-destination pairs. Packets from each source are generated according to a renewal process and are enqueued in a single-packet queue that stores only the freshest…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

A large body of applications that involve monitoring, decision making, and forecasting require timely status updates for their efficient operation. Age of Information (AoI) is a newly proposed metric that effectively captures this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

We consider a node-monitor pair, where updates are generated stochastically (according to a known distribution) at the node that it wishes to send to the monitor. The node is assumed to incur a fixed cost for each transmission, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kumar Saurav , Rahul Vaze

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haosheng He , Jianpeng Qi , Chao Liu , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

In this paper, we study the problem of optimal scheduling of content placement along time in a base station with limited cache capacity, taking into account jointly the offloading effect and freshness of information. We model offloading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

In this paper, we consider an information update system where a wireless sensor sends timely updates to the destination over an erasure channel with the supply of harvested energy and reliable backup energy. The metric Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Lixin Wang , Fuzhou Peng , Xiang Chen , Shidong Zhou