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The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging next-generation technology in the fourth industrial revolution. In industrial IoT networks, sensing devices are largely deployed to monitor various types of physical processes. They are required…

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In recent years, semantic communication is progressively emerging as an effective means of facilitating intelligent and context-aware communication. However, current researches seldom simultaneously consider the reliability and timeliness…

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As Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) evolves towards future sixth-generation (6G) networks, Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are emerging to become a key application. Leveraging data-driven Machine Learning (ML), especially Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Lei Lei , Kan Zheng , Xuemin , Shen

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

Emerging applications such as autonomous driving and industrial automation demand ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), where maintaining fresh and timely information is critical. A key performance metric in such systems is…

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We address the problem of building agents whose goal is to learn to execute out-of distribution (OOD) multi-task instructions expressed in temporal logic (TL) by using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Recent works provided evidence that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Borja G. León , Murray Shanahan , Francesco Belardinelli

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) promises adaptive control for future mobile networks but conventional agents remain reactive: they act on past and current measurements and cannot leverage short-term forecasts of exogenous KPIs such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 MohammadErfan Jabbari , Abhishek Duttagupta , Claudio Fiandrino , Leonardo Bonati , Salvatore D'Oro , Michele Polese , Marco Fiore , Tommaso Melodia

This work explores employing the concept of goal-oriented (GO) semantic communication for real-time monitoring and control. Generally, GO communication advocates for the deep integration of application targets into the network design. We…

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In delay-sensitive industrial internet of things (IIoT) applications, the age of information (AoI) is employed to characterize the freshness of information. Meanwhile, the emerging network function virtualization provides flexibility and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mohammad Akbari , Mohammad Reza Abedi , Roghayeh Joda , Mohsen Pourghasemian , Nader Mokari , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Ensuring timely and semantically accurate information delivery is critical in real-time wireless systems. While Age of Information (AoI) quantifies temporal freshness, Version Age of Information (VAoI) captures semantic staleness by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haoyuan Pan , Sizhao Chen , Zhaorui Wang , Tse-Tin Chan

The intricate interplay of source dynamics, unreliable channels, and staleness of information has long been recognized as a significant impediment for the receiver to achieve accurate, timely, and most importantly, goal-oriented decision…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Sumei Sun

We consider the optimal value of information (VoI) problem, where the goal is to sequentially select a set of tests with a minimal cost, so that one can efficiently make the best decision based on the observed outcomes. Existing algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Yuxin Chen , Jean-Michel Renders , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Andreas Krause

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Wenchao Wu , Yanning Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

This paper investigates goal-oriented communication for remote estimation of multiple Markov sources in resource-constrained networks. An agent decides the updating times of the sources and transmits the packet to a remote destination over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

We design a self-decision goal-oriented multiple access scheme, where sensing agents observe a common event and individually decide to communicate the event's attributes as updates to the monitoring agents, to satisfy a certain goal.…

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The operational lifetime of energy-harvesting wireless sensor nodes is limited by availability of the energy source and the capacity of the installed energy buffer. When a sensor node depletes its energy reserves, manual intervention is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Nihal Ahmad , Talha Manzoor , Ijaz Haider Naqvi

As augmented and virtual reality evolve, achieving seamless synchronization between physical and digital realms remains a critical challenge, especially for real-time applications where delays affect the user experience. This paper presents…

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