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Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a key metric for assessing data freshness in IoT applications, where a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a monitor. Such systems often rely on random access protocols based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

The notion of age-of-information (AoI) is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets, which are generated as independent Bernoulli processes, to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Howard H. Yang , Chao Xu , Xijun Wang , Daquan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper investigates the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to grant-free transmissions to reduce the age of information (AoI) in uplink status update systems, where multiple sources upload their {status updates} to {a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yanshi Sun , Yanglin Ye , Caihong Kai , Zhiguo Ding , Bin Chen

We optimize the Age of Information (AoI) in mobile networks using the age-threshold slotted ALOHA (TSA) protocol. The network comprises multiple source-destination pairs, where each source sends a sequence of status update packets to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Chuan Ma , Xinghua Sun , Tony Q. S. Quek , Howard H. Yang

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

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

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 investigate the performance of a random access network consisting of source-destination dipoles. The source nodes transmit information packets to their destinations over a shared spectrum. All the transmitters in this network adhere to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Howard H. Yang , Nikolaos Pappas , Tony Q. S. Quek , Martin Haenggi

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 paper investigates information freshness of multichannel access in information update systems. Age of information (AoI) is a fundamentally important metric to characterize information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jiaxin Liang , Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

To address the high mobility impacts and the ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements in autonomous driving scenarios, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) combined with short-packet communication (SPC) emerges as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zirui Zheng , Yingyang Chen , Xinyue Pei , Xingwei Wang , Zhiquan Liu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Miaowen Wen , Pingzhi Fan

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

Timely status updating is the premise of emerging interaction-based applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Using redundant devices to update the status of interest is a promising method to improve the timeliness of information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhengchuan Chen , Kang Lang , Nikolaos Pappas , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Zhong Tian , Tony Q. S. Quek

Flanking traditional metrics such as throughput and reliability, age of information (AoI) is emerging as a fundamental tool to capture the performance of IoT systems. In this context, we focus on a setup in which a large number of nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Andrea Munari , Alexey Frolov

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

This paper analyzes the age of information (AoI) for a pinching antenna (PA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with probabilistic line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. AoI is a key metric for evaluating the freshness of status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Huimin Hu , Ruihong Jiang , Yanqing Xu , Jiarui Ma , Fang Fang