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In cyber-physical systems, as in 5G and beyond, multiple physical processes require timely online monitoring at a remote device. There, the received information is used to estimate current and future process values. When transmitting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefan Roth , Ahmed Arafa , H. Vincent Poor , Aydin Sezgin

Spectrum sharing is a method to solve the problem of frequency spectrum deficiency. This paper studies a novel AI based spectrum sharing and energy harvesting system in which the freshness of information (AoI) is guaranteed. The system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Amir Hossein Zarif , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Eduard Jorswieck

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 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

This paper is motivated by emerging edge computing systems which consist of sensor nodes that acquire and process information and then transmit status updates to an edge receiver for possible further processing. As power is a scarce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Parisa Rafiee , Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

The age of information (AoI) performance metric for point-to-point wireless communication systems is analytically studied under Rician-faded channels and when the receiver is equipped with multiple antennas. The general scenario of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Guanghua Yang

In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

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

While information delivery in industrial Internet of things demands reliability and latency guarantees, the freshness of the controller's available information, measured by the age of information (AoI), is paramount for high-performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis

With the development of IoT, the sensor usage has been elevated to a new level, and it becomes more crucial to maintain reliable sensor networks. In this paper, we provide how to efficiently and reliably manage the sensor monitoring system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Jinwoong Kim , Minsu Kim , Jemin Lee

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

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to gather information from ground sensor nodes (SN) and transfer the collected data to the depot. The information freshness is captured…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos

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

Scheduling updates from remote sensors is a key task for the internet of things (IoT). In this context, the mathematical concept of age of information is often used to capture the freshness of received data. This is, in turn, relevant to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia

The technological landscape is rapidly evolving toward large-scale systems. Networks supporting massive connectivity through numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices are at the forefront of this advancement. In this paper, we examine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yao Zhu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Yulin Hu , Bo Ai , Ruikang Wang , Bin Han , Anke Schmeink

Information aging has gained prominence in characterizing communication protocols for timely remote estimation and control applications. This work proposes an Age of Information (AoI)-aware threshold-based dynamic frame slotted ALOHA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Ahmad Khonsari , Hina Tabassum

The effective operation of time-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications requires real-time reporting of fresh status information of underlying physical processes. In this paper, a real-time IoT monitoring system is considered, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

In this paper, we study how to collect fresh data in time-varying networks with power constrained users. We measure data freshness from the perspective of the central controller by using the metric Age of Information, namely the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

Age of Information (AoI) is a metric and KPI that has been developed for measuring and controlling data freshness. Optimization of AoI in a real-life network requires adapting the rate and timing of transmissions to varying network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

In this paper, we introduce the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) as an enabler for semantics-empowered communication, a newly advocated communication paradigm centered around data's role and its usefulness to the communication's goal.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides