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Timely information updates are critical to time-sensitive applications in networked monitoring and control systems. In this paper, the problem of real-time status update is considered for a cognitive radio network (CRN), in which the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yao Zhao , Bo Zhou , Walid Saad , Xiliang Luo

Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhengchuan Chen , Yi Qu , Nikolaos Pappas , Chaowei Tang , Min Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information (AoI) is an effective performance metric measuring the freshness of information and is popular for applications involving status update. Most of the existing works have adopted average AoI as the metric, which cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Guan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Yu-Pin Hsu

We study the age of information (AoI) in a random access network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, where each source node is empowered by energy harvesting capability. Every source node transmits a sequence of data packets to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang

Semantic communication is emerging as an effective means of facilitating intelligent and context-aware communication for next-generation communication systems. In this paper, we propose a novel metric called Age of Incorrect Semantics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xue Han , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Shengli Sun

The freshness of status information is of great importance for time-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A metric measuring status freshness is the age-of-information (AoI), which captures the time elapsed from the status being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Rui Li , Qian Ma , Jie Gong , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Effective control of time-sensitive industrial applications depends on the real-time transmission of data from underlying sensors. Quantifying the data freshness through age of information (AoI), in this paper, we jointly design sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yali Cao , Yinglei Teng , Mei Song , Nan Wang

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

This paper investigates an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which multiple devices are observing some object's physical parameters and then offloading their observations back to the BS in time with opportunistic channel access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Wang , Rongfei Fan

In this letter, an age of information (AoI)-aware transmission power and resource block (RB) allocation technique for vehicular communication networks is proposed. Due to the highly dynamic nature of vehicular networks, gaining a prior…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross

In this paper, we introduce two metrics, namely, age of actuation (AoA) and age of actuated information (AoAI), within a discrete-time system model that integrates data caching and energy harvesting (EH). AoA evaluates the timeliness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Internet of Things (IoT) has been emerging as one of the use cases permeating our daily lives in 5th Generation wireless networks, where status update packages are usually required to be timely delivered for many IoT based intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we analyze the average age of information (AoI) and the average peak AoI (PAoI) of a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits computation-intensive packets to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhifeng Tang , Zhuo Sun , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We propose and evaluate age of information (AoI)-aware multiple access mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT) in multi-relay two-hop networks. The network considered comprises end devices (EDs) communicating with a set of relays in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Felippe Moraes Pereira , João Luiz Rebelatto , Richard Demo Souza , Onel Alcaraz López

We consider a scenario that utilizes road side units (RSUs) as distributed caches in connected vehicular networks. The goal of the use of caches in our scenario is for rapidly providing contents to connected vehicles under various traffic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Minseok Choi , Joongheon Kim

The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee