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Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

The enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) mechanism is used in current wireless fidelity (WiFi) networks to support priority requirements of heterogeneous applications. However, the EDCA mechanism can not adapt to particular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Qianren Li , Bojie Lv , Yuncong Hong , Rui Wang

In this article, we provide an accessible introduction to the emerging idea of Age of Information (AoI) that quantifies freshness of information and explore its possible role in the efficient design of freshness-aware Internet of Things…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper, we explore how to schedule multiple users to optimize information freshness in a pull-based wireless network, where the status updates from users are requested by randomly arriving queries at the destination. We use the age…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Jingwei Liu , He Chen

The freshness of real-time status processing of time-sensitive information is crucial for several applications, including healthcare monitoring and autonomous vehicles. This freshness is considered in this paper for the system where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chanikarn Nikunram , Wasin Meesena , Stephen John Turner , Sucha Supittayapornpong

We consider a hybrid LiFi/WiFi network consisting of commercially available equipment, for mobile scenarios, where WiFi backs up communications, through vertical handovers, in case of insufficient LiFi QoS. When QoS requirements in terms of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Emilio Ancillotti , Loreto Pescosolido , Andrea Passarella

The notion of age-of-information (AoI) is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets, which are generated as independent Bernoulli processes, to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Howard H. Yang , Chao Xu , Xijun Wang , Daquan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of information (AoI), a notion that measures the information freshness, is an essential performance measure for time-critical applications in Internet of Things (IoT). With the surge of computing resources at the IoT devices, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xijun Wang , Minghao Fang , Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper investigates a multiuser scheduling problem within an uplink multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update network, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna devices. The presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

The last decade has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the demand for data-driven real-time services. These services are fueled by emerging applications that require rapidly injecting data streams and computing updated analytics results…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Zhongdong Liu , Bo Ji

Age of Information (AoI) is a metric and KPI that has been developed for measuring and controlling data freshness. Optimization of AoI in a real-life network requires adapting the rate and timing of transmissions to varying network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

Video content delivery at the wireless edge continues to be challenged by insufficient bandwidth and highly dynamic user behavior which affects both effective throughput and latency. Caching at the network edge and coded transmissions have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Lalhruaizela Chhangte , Emanuele Viterbo , D Manjunath , Nikhil Karamchandani

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness. AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We consider the problem of minimizing average and peak AoI in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Dense indoor WLANs increasingly rely on multiple access points (APs) operating over partially overlapping spectrum to support latency-sensitive applications. In such deployments, simultaneous transmissions across APs create co-channel and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ananth Ram Rajagopalan , Jiahui Ni , Vishrant Tripathi

The rapidly growing number of wireless devices running applications that require high bandwidths, has resulted in increasing demands for the unlicensed frequency spectrum. Given the scarcity of allocated unlicensed frequencies, meeting such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Nabil Giweli , Seyed Shahrestani , Hon Cheung

As WiFi grows ever more popular, airtime contention becomes an increasing problem. One way to alleviate this is through network policy enforcement. Unfortunately, WiFi lacks protocol support for configuring policies for its usage, and since…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen , Per Hurtig , Anna Brunstrom

WiFi technology has been applied to various places due to the increasing requirement of high-speed Internet access. Recently, besides network services, WiFi sensing is appealing in smart homes since it is device-free, cost-effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Qianwen Xu , Lihua Xie

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 investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to the intended receivers over a shared spectrum. Due to interference, the dynamics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga