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We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur

Time-sensitive services (TSSs) have been widely envisioned for future sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks. Due to its inherent low-latency advantage, mobile edge computing (MEC) will be an indispensable enabler for TSSs.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Jianyu Cao , Wei Feng , Ning Ge , Jianhua Lu

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

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

Next-generation wireless networks will provide users ubiquitous low-latency computing services using devices at the network edge, called mobile edge computing (MEC). The key operation of MEC, mobile computation offloading (MCO), is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Seung-Woo Ko , Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

Consider a message processing system whose objective is to produce the most current information as measured by the quantity known as "age of information". We have argued in previous papers that if we are allowed to design the message…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-06-17 George Kesidis , Takis Konstantopoulos , Michael Zazanis

Freshness of data is an important performance metric for real-time applications, which can be measured by age-of-information. For computation-intensive messages, the embedded information is not available until being computed. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

With the rapid development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), various multimedia services based on pretrained foundation models (PFMs) need to be effectively deployed. With edge servers that have cloud-level computing power, edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Hongliang Zhang , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Shiwen Mao , Zhu Han

New technologies for sensing and communication act as enablers for cooperative driving applications. Sensors are able to detect objects in the surrounding environment and information such as their current location is exchanged among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Julian Heinovski , Jorge Torres Gómez , Falko Dressler

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been considered as a promising technique for internet of things (IoT). By deploying edge servers at the proximity of devices, it is expected to provide services and process data at a relatively low delay by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile edge caching (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the quality of service (QoS) for mobile users (MU) by bringing data to the network edge. However, optimizing the crucial QoS aspects of message freshness and service promptness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Lei Yang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Yang , Hui He , Weizhe Zhang

An optimal control problem with heterogeneous servers to minimize the average age of information (AoI) is considered. Each server maintains a separate queue, and each packet arriving to the system is randomly routed to one of the servers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Anhad Bhati , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Rahul Vaze

The fifth generation (5G) mobile telecommunication network is expected to support Multi- Access Edge Computing (MEC), which intends to distribute computation tasks and services from the central cloud to the edge clouds. Towards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Bin Han , Stan Wong , Christian Mannweiler , Marcos Rate Crippa , Hans D. Schotten

We consider the peak age-of-information (PAoI) in an M/M/1 queueing system with packet delivery error, i.e., update packets can get lost during transmissions to their destination. We focus on two types of policies, one is to adopt…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Kun Chen , Longbo Huang

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

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

In this paper, we study the intricate realm of digital twin synchronization and deployment in multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks, with the aim of optimizing and balancing the two performance metrics Age of Information (AoI) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yongna Guo , Yaru Fu , Yan Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek