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Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…
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,…
In this work, we study age-optimal scheduling with stability constraints in a multiple access channel with two heterogeneous source nodes transmitting to a common destination. The first node is connected to a power grid and it has randomly…
In this paper, we introduce a new data freshness metric, relative Age of Information (rAoI), and examine it in a single server system with various packet management schemes. The (classical) AoI metric was introduced to measure the staleness…
Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…
This paper investigates the information freshness of two-hop networks. Age of information (AoI) is used as the metric to characterize the information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the latest received status update was…
We focus on a slotted ALOHA system without feedback, in which nodes transmit time-stamped updates to a common gateway. Departing from the classical generate-at-will model, we assume that each transmitter may not always have fresh…
In a typical Internet of Things (IoT) application where a central controller collects status updates from multiple terminals, e.g., sensors and monitors, through a wireless multiaccess uplink, an important problem is how to attain timely…
Timeliness is an emerging requirement for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In IoT networks, where a large-number of nodes are distributed, severe interference may incur during the transmission phase which causes age of…
In this paper, the minimization of the weighted sum average age of information (AoI) in a multi-source status update communication system is studied. Multiple independent sources send update packets to a common destination node in a…
This paper considers a large-scale wireless network consisting of source-destination (SD) pairs, where the sources send time-sensitive information, termed status updates, to their corresponding destinations in a time-slotted fashion. We…
We provide a characterization of the peak age of information (AoI) achievable in a random-access system operating according to the frameless ALOHA protocol. Differently from previous studies, our analysis accounts for the fact that the…
Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…
In the Internet-of-Things (IoT), random access is employed for devices to share a common access channel in packet transmission with low signaling overhead. Although a retransmission strategy is necessary for packet collision resolution, it…
The latest WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11ax (WiFi 6), introduces a novel uplink random access mechanism called uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based random access (UORA). While existing work has evaluated the performance of…
In this paper we consider the age of information (AoI) of a status updating system with a relay, where the updates are delivered to destination either from the direct line or the two-hop link via the relay. An updating packet generated at…
The advent of Machine-to-Machine communication has sparked a new wave of interest to random access protocols, especially in application to LTE Random Access (RA). By analogy with classical slotted ALOHA, state-of-the-art models LTE RA as a…
In this paper, a network comprising wireless devices equipped with buffers transmitting deadline-constrained data packets over a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is studied. Although communication protocols facilitating retransmissions…
In this work, we combine the two notions of timely delivery of information in order to study their interplay; namely, deadline-constrained packet delivery due to latency constraints and freshness of information at the destination. More…
Various applications of wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications have rekindled the research interest in random access protocols, suitable to support a large number of connected devices. Slotted ALOHA and its derivatives represent a…