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We consider a scenario where a monitor is interested in being up to date with respect to the status of some system which is not directly accessible to this monitor. However, we assume a source node has access to the status and can send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser

Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling (DOS) techniques have been recently proposed to improve the throughput performance of wireless networks. With DOS, each station contends for the channel with a certain access probability. If a contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Andres Garcia-Saavedra , Albert Banchs , Pablo Serrano , Joerg Widmer

This paper investigates a multiuser scheduling problem within an uplink multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update network, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna devices. The presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a metric that can combine the freshness of the information available to a gateway in an Internet of Things (IoT) network with the accuracy of that information. As such, minimizing the AoII can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Anupam Nayak , Anders E. Kalør , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

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

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 the intended receivers over a shared spectrum. Due to interference, the dynamics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Age of Information (AoI), which measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet at the destination, is a new metric for real-time status update tracking applications. In this paper, we consider a status-update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

In this work, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Roy D. Yates , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

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

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

We consider multi-hop wireless networks serving multiple flows in which only packets that meet hard end-to-end deadline constraints are useful, i.e., if a packet is not delivered to its destination node by its deadline, it is dropped from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar

Due to flexibility, autonomy and low operational cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as fixed aerial base stations, are increasingly being used as \textit{relays} to collect time-sensitive information (i.e., status updates) from IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Biplav Choudhury , Vijay K. Shah , Aidin Ferdowsi , Jeffrey H. Reed , Y. Thomas Hou

We study the optimal transmission and scheduling policy for a transmitter (source) communicating with two gossiping receivers aiming at tracking the source's status over time using the age of information (AoI) metric. Gossiping enables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Irtiza Hasan , Ahmed Arafa

In this paper, we aim to design an optimal sampler for a system in which fresh samples of a signal (source) are sent through an unreliable channel to a remote estimator, and acknowledgments are sent back over a feedback channel. Both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jiayu Pan , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

This paper considers a cognitive radio-based IoT monitoring system, consisting of an IoT device that aims to update its measurement to a destination using cognitive radio technique. Specifically, the IoT device as a secondary user (SIoT),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yifan Gu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a multi-source relaying system where independent sources randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a relay through unreliable links. We develop transmission scheduling policies to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

Efficient data replication in decentralized storage systems must account for diverse policies, especially in multi-organizational, data-intensive environments. This work proposes PSMOA, a novel Policy Support Multi-objective Optimization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xi Wang , Susmit Shannigrahi