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We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

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 consider a random access network consisting of source-destination pairs. Each source node generates status updates and transmits this information to its intended destination over a shared spectrum. The goal is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

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

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

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

We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

We consider a base station (BS) that receives version update packets from multiple exogenous streams and broadcasts them to corresponding users over a fading broadcast channel using a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Gangadhar Karevvanavar , Hrishikesh Pable , Om Patil , Rajshekhar V Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a novel intermittent status updating model where an energy harvesting node with an intermittent energy source performs status updating to a receiver through non-preemptive sensing and transmission operations. Each operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Omur Ozel

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

Motivated by cooperative distributed networks in which users dynamically alternate between transmit and receive modes under half-duplex constraints, this paper studies the Age of Information (AoI) in a distributed multi-user network using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peng Zou , Ali Maatouk , Egemen Erbayat , Suresh Subramaniam

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

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein

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

Applications like environmental sensing, and health and activity sensing, are supported by networks of devices (nodes) that send periodic packet transmissions over the wireless channel to a sink node. We look at simple abstractions that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

Age of information (AoI), a metric to analyse data freshness, is of interest for time-critical applications in upcoming wireless networks. Besides, wireless power transfer (WPT) is also essential to prolong lifetime of a wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Ioannis Krikidis

We consider a wireless network where N nodes compete for a shared channel over the CSMA/CA protocol to deliver observed updates to a common remote monitor. For this network, we rate the information freshness of the CSMA/CA based network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Liang Li , Yunquan Dong , Chengsheng Pan , Pingyi Fan

In this paper, we investigate the age-of-information (AoI) of a power domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where multiple internet-of-things (IoT) devices transmit to a common gateway in a grant-free random fashion. More…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Felippe Moraes Pereira , Jamil de Araujo Farhat , João Luiz Rebelatto , Glauber Brante , Richard Demo Souza

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

This paper analyzes and optimizes the average Age of Information (AAoI) of Frame Slotted ALOHA with Reservation and Data slots (FSA-RD) in a multi-access network, where multiple users transmit their randomly generated status updates to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qian Wang , He Chen