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Stringent demands for timely information delivery, driven by the widespread adoption of real-time applications and the Internet of Things, have established the age of information (AoI) as a critical metric for quantifying data freshness.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Muthukrishnan Senthilkumar , Aresh Dadlani , Hina Tabassum

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

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

We consider the age of information in a multicast network where there is a single source node that sends time-sensitive updates to $n$ receiver nodes. Each status update is one of two kinds: type I or type II. To study the age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Baturalp Buyukates , Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

This paper studies the age of information (AoI) on an information updating system such that multiple sources share one server to process packets of updated information. In such systems, packets from different sources compete for the server,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yukang Jiang , Kiichi Tokuyama , Yuichiro Wada , Moeko Yajima

We consider a spectrum sharing problem where two users attempt to communicate over N channels. The Primary User (PU) has prioritized transmissions and its occupancy on each channel over time can be modeled as a Markov chain. The Secondary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hongjae Nam , Vishrant Tripathi , David J. Love

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor may monitor more than one time-varying information process and send status updates to a remote monitor over a common channel. We consider that each sensor's status update may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

We show how to calculate the Age of Information in an overtake-free network of quasi-reversible queues, with exponential exogenous interarrivals of multiple classes of update packets and exponential service times at all nodes. Results are…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Ioannis Koukoutsidis

This paper considers a communication system where a source sends time-sensitive information to its destination. We assume that both arrival and service processes of the messages are memoryless and the source has a single server with no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ashirwad Sinha , Praful D. Mankar , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Age of information (AoI) is an effective performance metric measuring the freshness of information and is particularly suitable for applications involving status update. In this paper, using the age violation probability as the metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Kuan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Yu-Pin Hsu

We consider a single server communication setting where the interarrival times of data updates at the source node and the service times to the destination node are arbitrarily distributed. We consider two service discipline models. If a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alkan Soysal , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the problem of minimizing age in a multihop wireless network. There are multiple source-destination pairs, transmitting data through multiple wireless channels, over multiple hops. We propose a network control policy which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ashok Krishnan K. S. , Vinod Sharma

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

In this paper, we study an age of information minimization problem, where multiple flows of update packets are sent over multiple servers to their destinations. Two online scheduling policies are proposed. When the packet generation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Sastry Kompella

This paper provides a survey of the state-of-the-art information theoretic analysis for overlay multi-user (more than two pairs) cognitive networks and reports new capacity results. In an overlay scenario, cognitive / secondary users share…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Diana Maamari , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

Having timely and fresh knowledge about the current state of information sources is critical in a variety of applications. In particular, a status update may arrive at the destination later than its generation time due to processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

This work studies the average age of information (AoI) of a monitoring system in which two sensors are sensing the same physical process and update status to a common monitor using their dedicated channels. Generally, using redundant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianqing Yang , Zhengchuan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Min Wang , Yunjian Jia , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this work, we investigate the design of information-update systems, where incoming update packets are forwarded to a remote destination through multiple servers (each server can be viewed as a wireless channel). One important performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

We consider the peak age-of-information (PAoI) in an M/M/1 queueing system with packet delivery error, i.e., update packets can get lost during transmissions to their destination. We focus on two types of policies, one is to adopt…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Kun Chen , Longbo Huang