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In the era of 6G, with compelling visions of intelligent transportation systems and digital twins, remote surveillance is poised to become a ubiquitous practice. Substantial data volume and frequent updates present challenges in wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yanli Yuan , Wenchao Jiang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Merouane Debbah

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is revolutionizing marine sensing and environmental monitoring, as well as subaquatic exploration, which are enabled by interconnected and intelligent subsystems. Nevertheless, underwater…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruhul Amin Khalil , Asiya Jehangir , Hanane Lamaazi , Sadaf Rubab , Nasir Saeed

Communication systems to date primarily aim at reliably communicating bit sequences. Such an approach provides efficient engineering designs that are agnostic to the meanings of the messages or to the goal that the message exchange aims to…

In this paper, a general value of information (VoI) framework is formalised for latent variable models. In particular, the mutual information between the current status at the source node and the observed noisy measurements at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Zijing Wang , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

Driven by the interplay among artificial intelligence, digital twin, and wireless networks, 6G is envisaged to go beyond data-centric services to provide intelligent and immersive experiences. To efficiently support intelligent tasks with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Dingzhu Wen , Youlong Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled B. Letaief

The timeliness of collected information is essential for monitoring and control in data-driven intelligent infrastructures. It is typically quantified using the Age of Information (AoI) metric, which has been widely adopted to capture the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shih-Kai Chou , Maice Costa , Mihael Mohorčič , Jernej Hribar

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced significant opportunities for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of image transmission within semantic communication systems. Despite these advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qiyu Ma , Wanli Ni , Zhijin Qin

Goal-oriented semantic communication will be a pillar of next-generation wireless networks. Despite significant recent efforts in this area, most prior works are focused on specific data types (e.g., image or audio), and they ignore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mohammad Karimzadeh Farshbafan , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah

The groundbreaking metric age of information (AoI) has been introduced to measure information freshness in communication networks. As transformational as it is, AoI metric falls short in some applications, such as remote monitoring, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

The Internet of Senses (IoS) holds the promise of flawless telepresence-style communication for all human `receptors' and therefore blurs the difference of virtual and real environments. We commence by highlighting the compelling use cases…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Roghayeh Joda , Medhat Elsayed , Hatem Abou-zeid , Ramy Atawia , Akram Bin Sediq , Gary Boudreau , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Lajos Hanzo

Efficient data transmission in resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) systems requires semantics-aware management that maximizes the delivery of timely and informative data. This paper investigates the optimization of the semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently introduced metric for network operation with sensor applications which quantifies the freshness of data. In the context of networked control systems (NCSs), we compare the worth of the AoI metric with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Markus Klügel , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

This paper studies the notion of age in task-oriented communications that aims to execute a task at a receiver utilizing the data at its transmitter. The transmitter-receiver operations are modeled as an encoder-decoder pair that is jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

This work is motivated by the need of collecting fresh data from power-constrained sensors in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) network. A recently proposed metric, the Age of Information (AoI) is adopted to measure data freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

The trajectories of 6G and AI are set for a creative collision. However, current visions for 6G remain largely incremental evolutions of 5G, while progress in AI is hampered by brittle, data-hungry models that lack robust reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mehdi Bennis , Salem Lahlou

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

In this paper, a novel semantic communication framework empowered by generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is proposed, to enhance the robustness against both channel noise and transmission data distribution shifts. A theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Xiucheng Wang , Honggang Jia , Nan Cheng

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communication is viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surge of research activities in this area, the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor