English
Related papers

Related papers: Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gos…

200 papers

Age-of-Information (AoI), or simply age, which measures the data freshness, is essential for real-time Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, energy saving is urgently required by many energy-constrained IoT devices. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jie Gong , Jianhang Zhu , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

Age of Information (AoI) is a recently defined quantity, which measures the freshness of information in a communication scheme. In this paper, we analyze a network that consists of a sensor node, an energy source and a receiver. The energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Navid Nouri , Darya Ardan , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi

This paper investigates the average age of information (AoI) minimization in status update systems in which the update packets are transmitted with fixed rate. It is assumed that the source avoids queue-induced delay by generating and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Deli Qiao , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this letter, we deal with the age of information (AoI) for a sensor network with wireless power transfer (WPT) capabilities. Specifically, we study a simple network topology, where a sensor node harvests energy from radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Ioannis Krikidis

We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

For a two-hop IoT system consisting of multiple energy harvesting sensors, a cache-enabled edge node, and multiple monitors, the status update control at the edge node, which has partial battery state information (pBSI) of the sensors, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hao Wu , Shengtian Yang , Jun Chen , Chao Chen , Anding Wang

We consider an Internet-of-Things (IoT) system in which an energy harvesting powered sensor node monitors the phenomenon of interest and transmits its observations to a remote monitor over a Gaussian channel. We measure the timeliness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yunquan Dong , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

We consider the version age of information (AoI) in a network where a subset of nodes act as sensing nodes, sampling a source that in general can follow a continuous distribution. Any sample of the source constitutes a new version of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Kian J. Khojastepour , Matin Mortaheb , Sennur Ulukus

We study the real-time remote tracking of a two-state Markov process by an energy harvesting source. The source decides whether to transmit over an unreliable channel based on the state. We formulate this scenario as a Markov decision…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Anthony Ephremides , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

Providing timely and informative data in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks is critical as data volume grows while the resources available on devices remain limited. To address this, we adopt a semantics-aware approach to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

We study the problem of minimizing the time-average expected Age of Information for status updates sent by an energy-harvesting source with a finite-capacity battery. In prior literature, optimal policies were observed to have a threshold…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Volkan Mutlu

We consider a network consisting of a single source and $n$ receiver nodes that are grouped into $m$ equal size communities, i.e., clusters, where each cluster includes $k$ nodes and is served by a dedicated cluster head. The source node…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Baturalp Buyukates , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

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

Efficient multiple access remains a key challenge for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) networks comprising a large set of devices with sporadic activation, thus motivating significant research in the last few years. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ophelia Giannini , Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Roberto Verdone , Onel Alcaraz López

We study the age of information (AoI) in a random access network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, where each source node is empowered by energy harvesting capability. Every source node transmits a sequence of data packets to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang

We consider an energy harvesting information update system where a sensor is allowed to choose a transmission mode for each transmission, where each mode consists of a transmission power-error pair. We also incorporate the battery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Caglar Tunc , Shivendra Panwar

We consider an energy harvesting (EH) IoT network, where users make on-demand requests to a cache-enabled edge node to send status updates about various random processes, each monitored by an EH sensor. The edge node serves users' requests…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Mohammad Hatami , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power source nodes to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff