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More and more emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications involve status updates, where various IoT devices monitor certain physical processes and report their latest statuses to the relevant information fusion nodes. A new performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Zixiao Han , Jiaxin Liang , Yifan Gu , He Chen

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive devices are deployed, which poses severe challenges on access networks due to limited communication resources. When massive users contend for access, the information freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Dongliang Zhang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen

Age of Information (AoI) is a key metric to understand data freshness in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this paper we analyse an intermittently-powered IoT sensor - with mixed-memory (volatile and non-volatile) architecture - that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 James Scott Broadhead , Przemysław Pawełczak

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to the space arena, also known as non-terrestrial networks. Several IoT satellite applications for tracking ships and cargo can be seen as exemplary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Age of Information (AoI) is a recently defined quantity, which measures the freshness of information in a communication scheme. In this paper, we analyze a network that consists of a sensor node, an energy source and a receiver. The energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Navid Nouri , Darya Ardan , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. It captures the delay together with packet loss and packet generation rate. However, the existing literature focuses on average or peak AoI and neglects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Arled Papa , Wolfgang Kellerer

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro

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

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

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

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

This work is motivated by the need of collecting fresh data from power-constrained sensors in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network. A recently proposed metric, the Age of Information (AoI) is adopted to measure data freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

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

The timeliness of collected information is essential for monitoring and control in data-driven intelligent infrastructures. It is typically quantified using the Age of Information (AoI) metric, which has been widely adopted to capture the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shih-Kai Chou , Maice Costa , Mihael Mohorčič , Jernej Hribar

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

We consider a scenario where a base station (BS) attempts to collect fresh information from power constrained sensors over time-varying band-limited wireless channels. We characterize the data freshness through the recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Philippe Ciblat , Jian Song

Age of Information (AoI) is a newly appeared concept and metric to characterize the freshness of data. In this work, we study the delay and AoI in a multiple access channel (MAC) with two source nodes transmitting different types of data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen