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Future wireless networks must support real-time, data-driven cyber-physical systems in which communication is tightly coupled with sensing, inference, control, and decision-making. Traditional communication paradigms centered on accuracy,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiping Luo , Erfan Delfani , Mehrdad Salimnejad , Nikolaos Pappas

In the last few years, the Internet throughput, usage and reliability have increased almost exponentially. The introduction of broadband wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and cellular networks together with increased computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Jaydip Sen , Shomik Bhattacharya

Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a networked version of optical wireless communication (OWC), which is a strong candidate to fulfill the unprecedented increase in user-traffic expected in the near future. In OWC, a high number of optical access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir El-Gorashi1 , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on real-time mobile applications, such as news updates and weather forecast. In these applications, data freshness is of significant importance, which can be measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jie Gong , Jiajie Huang

Information freshness, characterized by age of information (AoI), is important for sensor applications involving timely status updates. In many cases, the wireless signals from one sensor can be received by multiple access points (APs).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Haoyuan Pan , Yu Zhou , Tse-Tin Chan , Ming Tang , Jianqiang Li , Zhihua Du

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

This paper considers a wireless network where multiple flows are delivering status updates about their respective information sources. An end user aims to make accurate real-time estimations about the status of each information source using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Daojing Guo , I-Hong Hou

Content caching at the network edge has been considered an effective way of mitigating backhaul load and improving user experience. Caching efficiency can be enhanced by content recommendation and by keeping the information fresh. To the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

Energy efficiency and information freshness are key requirements for sensor nodes serving Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, where a sink node collects informative and fresh data before a deadline, e.g., to control an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Junya Shiraishi , Anders E. Kalør , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski , Hiroyuki Yomo

In the last few years, the Internet throughput, usage and reliability have increased almost exponentially. The introduction of broadband wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and cellular networks together with increased computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen

This paper estimates the freshness of the information in a wireless relay communication system that employs simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) operating under ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)…

In this paper, we examine a system where status updates are generated by a source and are forwarded in a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) manner to the monitor. We consider the case where the server has other tasks to fulfill, a simple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

This paper investigates the benefits of integrating multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in enhancing the timeliness performance of uplink Internet-of-Things (IoT) network, where IoT devices (IoTDs) upload their time-stamped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ali Muhammad , Mohamed Elhattab , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Chadi Assi

Over the past decade, distributed CSMA, which forms the basis for WiFi, has been deployed ubiquitously to provide seamless and high-speed mobile internet access. However, distributed CSMA might not be ideal for future IoT/M2M applications,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Pragya Sharma , Jayakrishnan Nair , Raman Singh

The success in the growing wireless standards can be measured by the achievement of quality of service (QoS) specifications by the designers. The IEEE802.11 wireless standards are widely accepted as wireless technology for wireless LAN.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Oladunni Femijemilohun , Stuart Walker

With the development of IoT, the sensor usage has been elevated to a new level, and it becomes more crucial to maintain reliable sensor networks. In this paper, we provide how to efficiently and reliably manage the sensor monitoring system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Jinwoong Kim , Minsu Kim , Jemin Lee

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

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 intended receivers over shared spectrum. We establish an analytical framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor