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We consider a new formulation of a class of synchronization error channels and derive analytical bounds and numerical estimates for the capacity of these channels. For the binary channel with only deletions, we obtain an expression for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aravind R. Iyengar , Paul H. Siegel , Jack K. Wolf

This paper is motivated by the observation that the average queueing delay can be decreased by sacrificing power efficiency in wireless communications. In this sense, we naturally wonder what is the minimum queueing delay when the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Meng Wang , Juan Liu , Wei Chen , Anthony Ephremides

The classical definition of network delay has been recently augmented by the concept of information timeliness, or Age of Information (AoI). We analyze the network delay and the AoI in a multi-hop satellite network that relays status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Beatriz Soret , Sucheta Ravikanti , Petar Popovski

We focus on the Age of Information (AoI) performance in a system where each user generates packets periodically to send to a common access point (AP) for status updating. To avoid heavy overhead, we assume that channel sensing, feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Fang Liu , Wing Shing Wong , Yuan-Hsun Lo , Yijin Zhang , Chung Shue Chen

We develop a simple model for the timely monitoring of correlated sources over a wireless network. Using this model, we study how to optimize weighted-sum average Age of Information (AoI) in the presence of correlation. First, we discuss…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Vishrant Tripathi , Eytan Modiano

Age of information (AoI) is a time-evolving measure of information freshness, that tracks the time since the last received fresh update was generated. Analyzing peak and average AoI, two time average metrics of AoI, for various continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Vishrant Tripathi , Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

In an Internet-of-Things system where status data are collected from sensors and actuators for time-critical applications, the freshness of data is vital and can be quantified by the recently proposed age-of-information (AoI) metric. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Information freshness and low latency communication is important to many emerging applications. While Age of Information (AoI) serves as a metric of information freshness, packet delay is a traditional metric of communication latency. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

Wireless information-centric networks consider storage as one of the network primitives, and propose to cache data within the network in order to improve latency and reduce bandwidth consumption. We study the throughput capacity and latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bita Azimdoost , Cedric Westphal , Hamid R. Sadjadpour

The Age-of-Information (AoI) is a new performance metric recently proposed for measuring the freshness of information in information-update systems. In this work, we conduct a systematic and comparative study to investigate the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zhongdong Liu , Liang Huang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

The capability of a given channel to communicate information is, a priori, distinct from its capability to distribute shared randomness. In this article we define randomness distribution capacities of quantum channels assisted by forward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Raul Garcia-Patron , William Matthews , Andreas Winter

This paper develops an envelope-based approach to establish a link between information and queueing theory. Unlike classical, equilibrium information theory, information envelopes focus on the dynamics of sources and coders, using functions…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ralf Lübben , Markus Fidler

Age of information (AoI) has been widely accepted as a measure quantifying freshness of status information in real-time status update systems. In many of such systems, multiple sources share a limited network resource and therefore the AoIs…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yukang Jiang , Naoto Miyoshi

The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Klas E. G. Magnusson , Rasmus Brandt , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the age of information in a multi-source system, where samples are taken from multiple sources and sent to a destination via a channel with random delay. Due to interference, only one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Sastry Kompella , Ness B. Shroff

Age of Information (AoI) has become an important concept in communications, as it allows system designers to measure the freshness of the information available to remote monitoring or control processes. However, its definition tacitly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Federico Chiariotti , Josefine Holm , Anders E. Kalør , Beatriz Soret , Søren K. Jensen , Torben B. Pedersen , Petar Popovski

Network information theory is the study of communication problems involving multiple senders, multiple receivers and intermediate relay stations. The purpose of this thesis is to extend the main ideas of classical network information theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Ivan Savov

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

In the emerging fifth generation (5G) technology, communication nodes are expected to support two crucial classes of information traffic, namely, the enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) traffic with high data rate requirements, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat , Rahul Vaze , Mehul Motani

We consider a joint source-channel coding problem on a finite-field multiway relay channel, and we give closed-form lower and upper bounds on the optimal source-channel rate. These bounds are shown to be tight for all discrete memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Lawrence Ong , Roy Timo