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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

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) in a system where physical sources produce independent discrete-time updates that are each observed by several sensors. We devise a model that is simple, but still capable to capture the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

We consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power sources to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and adopt an asynchronized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

Internet of Things (IoT) networks have become ubiquitous as autonomous computing, communication and collaboration among devices become popular for accomplishing various tasks. The use of relays in IoT networks further makes it convenient to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Biplav Choudhury , Prasenjit Karmakar , Vijay K. Shah , Jeffrey H. Reed

In this paper, we aim to design an optimal sampler for a system in which fresh samples of a signal (source) are sent through an unreliable channel to a remote estimator, and acknowledgments are sent back over a feedback channel. Both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jiayu Pan , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In a microgrid, real-time state estimation has always been a challenge due to several factors such as the complexity of computations, constraints of the communication network and low inertia. In this paper, a real-time event-based optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Seyed Amir Alavi , Mehrnaz Javadipour , Kamyar Mehran

This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Wu , Kemi Ding , Peng Cheng , Ling Shi

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

Age of Information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received update, is a promising performance metric to measure data freshness for real-time status monitoring. In many applications, status information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jie Gong , Qiaobin Kuang , Xiang Chen

We analyze Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where nodes use a spatially adaptive random access scheme to send status updates to a central base station. We show that the set of achievable AoI in this setting is convex, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

We consider a 5G cellular network where a gNB schedules time-sensitive uplink transmissions from multiple UEs and forwards received packets to remote destinations. In practical 5G networks, the gNB does not directly observe the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhuoyi Zhao , Igor Kadota

This paper considers a sequential sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process and makes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

We investigate a remote monitoring framework with multiple sensing modalities including IoT sensors on the ground, mobile UAVs in the air, and a periodically available satellite constellation. While the IoT sensors cover small areas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sunjung Kang , Vishrant Tripathi , Christopher G. Brinton

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

We consider a sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with one sensor and one estimator. At each time step, the sensor makes an observation on the state of a source, and then decides whether to transmit its observation to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

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 2019-07-24 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

In a communication setting where multiple sources share a single channel to provide status updates to a remote monitor, source transmissions need to be scheduled appropriately to maintain timely communication between each of the sources and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

In this paper, we consider a system where multiple low-power sensors communicate timely information about a random process to a sink. The sensors share orthogonal subchannels to transmit such information in the form of status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu , Nikolaos Pappas