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In this work, we consider a remote monitoring scenario in which multiple sensors share a wireless channel to deliver their status updates to a process monitor via an access point (AP). Moreover, we consider that the sensors randomly arrive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Yash Deshpande , Onur Ayan , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor monitors multiple dynamic information processes and transmits updates over a shared communication channel. These updates may include correlated information across the various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

This paper studies how to achieve the maximal link throughputs in a CSMA wireless network through offered-load control. First, we propose an analytical model, contention-graph-combination (CGC), to describe the relationship between the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Caihong Kai , Qi Zhang , Lusheng Wang

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

It has been recently suggested that in wireless networks, CSMA-based distributed MAC algorithms could achieve optimal utility without any message passing. We present the first proof of convergence of such adaptive CSMA algorithms towards an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jiaping Liu , Yung Yi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mung Chiang , H. Vincent Poor

This work introduces a framework for analyzing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a real-time monitoring system with a generic discrete-time Markov source. We study a noisy communication system employing a hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

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

In large-scale resource-constrained wireless networks, such as those prevalent in the Internet of Things (IoT), efficient communication scheduling remains a critical challenge. Among the various approaches, Time Division Multiple Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hicham Lakhlef , Mohamed Ali Zormati , Khaled Abid , Toufik Ahmed

This study considers a wireless network where an access point (AP) broadcasts timely updates to numerous mobile users. The timeliness of information owned by a user is characterized by the age of information. Frequently broadcasting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Yu-Pin Hsu

In this letter, we design a downlink multi-user communication framework based on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for semantic-aware networks. First, we formulate an optimization problem to obtain the optimal user scheduling,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Onur Dizdar , Stephen Wang

We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor observes a phenomena of interest with exponentially distributed intervals and delivers the updates to a monitor with the First-come-First-served (FCFS) policy. At the monitor,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Zhiwei Bao , Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

In this paper, we propose a new measure for the freshness of information, which uses the mutual information between the real-time source value and the delivered samples at the receiver to quantify the freshness of the information contained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

Future wireless access networks need to support diversified quality of service (QoS) metrics required by various types of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, e.g., age of information (AoI) for status generating sources and ultra low latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

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

This paper considers a wireless network with a base station (BS) conducting timely transmission to two clients in a slotted manner via hybrid non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)/orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Specifically, the BS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we analyze the impact of different encoding schemes on the age of information (AoI) performance in a point-to-point system, where a source generates packets based on the status updates collected from multiple sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

We consider an information update system consisting of $N$ sources sending status packets at random instances according to a Poisson process to a remote monitor through a single server. We assume a heteregeneous server with exponentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ege Orkun Gamgam , Nail Akar