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The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric has been widely studied in the theoretical communication networks and queuing systems literature. However, experimental evaluation of its applicability to complex real-world time-sensitive systems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota , Ezra Tal , Muhammad Shahir Rahman , Alexander Warren , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

Age-of-Information (AoI), or simply age, which measures the data freshness, is essential for real-time Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, energy saving is urgently required by many energy-constrained IoT devices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jie Gong , Jianhang Zhu , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

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 powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

The proliferation of smart mobile devices has spurred an explosive growth of mobile crowd-learning services, where service providers rely on the user community to voluntarily collect, report, and share real-time information for a collection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bin Li , Jia Liu

In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated. To quantify the freshness of the data packets at the information receiver, the age of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Zhongpei Zhang

We consider a wireless network with a base station broadcasting and collecting time-sensitive data to and from spatially distributed nodes in the presence of wireless interference. The Age of Information (AoI) is the time that has elapsed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Chirag Rao , Eytan Modiano

In this paper, we study a model relevant to semantics-aware goal-oriented communications. More specifically, observations from an external process are transmitted through status updates to a battery-powered receiver. From these updates, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale and device heterogeneity grows, multimodal data have become ubiquitous. Meanwhile, evaluating the freshness of multimodal data is essential, as stale updates would delay task execution, degrade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ying Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Chao Yang , Kandaraj Piamrat , Stephan Sigg , Zheng Changr , Yusheng Ji

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

In 5G and beyond communication systems, the notion of latency gets great momentum in wireless connectivity as a metric for serving real-time communications requirements. However, in many applications, research has pointed out that latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

While the notion of age of information (AoI) has recently emerged as an important concept for analyzing ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), the majority of the existing works have focused on the average AoI measure. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) technologies help mitigate undesirable effects in wireless links by steering the communication signal between transmitters and receivers. IRS elements are configured to adjust the phase of the reflected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Jorge Torres Gómez , Joana Angjo , Moritz Garkisch , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Falko Dressler

We investigate a remote monitoring framework with multiple sensing modalities including IoT sensors on the ground, mobile UAVs in the air, and a periodically available satellite constellation. While the IoT sensors cover small areas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sunjung Kang , Vishrant Tripathi , Christopher G. Brinton

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

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul