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There have been recent attempts to develop scheduling schemes for downlink transmission in a single cell of a multi-channel (e.g., OFDM-based) cellular network. These works have been quite promising in that they have developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Zhenzhi Qian , Bo Ji , Kannan Srinivasan , Ness B. Shroff

The emergence of new intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

We investigate a real-time remote inference system where multiple correlated sources transmit observations over a communication channel to a receiver. The receiver utilizes these observations to infer multiple time-varying targets. Due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Vishrant Tripathi , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Machine learning techniques have garnered great interest in designing communication systems owing to their capacity in tackling with channel uncertainty. To provide theoretical guarantees for learning-based communication systems, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zheshun Wu , Junfan Li , Zenglin Xu , Sumei Sun , Jie Liu

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks evolve from connecting devices to connecting intelligence. The focus turns to Goal-Oriented Communications, where the effectiveness of communication is assessed through task-level objectives over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Tony Chahoud , Yiqun Wu , Lukas Eller , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for edge inference, where a low-end edge device transmits the extracted feature vector of a local data sample to a powerful edge server for processing. It is critical to encode the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

We consider a remote estimation problem with an energy harvesting sensor and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the state of a discrete-time source which may be a finite state Markov chain or a multi-dimensional linear Gaussian system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ashutosh Nayyar , Tamer Basar , Demosthenis Teneketzis , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Unpredictable sensor-to-estimator delays fundamentally distort what matters for wireless remote state estimation: not just freshness, but how delay interacts with sensor informativeness and energy efficiency. In this paper, we present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nho-Duc Tran , Aamir Mahmood , Mikael Gidlund

The ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) service of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication network struggles to support safe robot operation. Nowadays, the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication network is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wenchao Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng , A. Hamid Aghvami

Optimizations premised on open-loop metrics such as Age of Information (AoI) indirectly enhance the system's decision-making utility. We therefore propose a novel closed-loop metric named Goal-oriented Tensor (GoT) to directly quantify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Sumei Sun , Jie Cao

This article examines the queueing performance of communication systems that transmit encoded data over unreliable channels. A fading formulation suitable for wireless environments is considered where errors are caused by a discrete channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Henry D. Pfister , Jean-Francois Chamberland

We investigate the coexistence of task-oriented and data-oriented communications in a IoT system that shares a group of channels, and study the scheduling problem to jointly optimize the weighted age of incorrect information (AoII) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shengpei Jiang , Nan Ma , Shuguang Cui

Goal-oriented communications prioritize application-driven objectives over data accuracy, enabling intelligent next-generation wireless systems. Efficient scheduling in multi-device, multi-channel systems poses significant challenges due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jiazheng Chen , Wanchun Liu

In this paper, we address task-oriented (or goal-oriented) communications where an encoder at the transmitter learns compressed latent representations of data, which are then transmitted over a wireless channel. At the receiver, a decoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

We study a delay-constrained grant-free random access system with a multi-antenna base station. The users randomly generate data packets with expiration deadlines, which are then transmitted from data queues on a first-in first-out basis.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jianan Bai , Zheng Chen , Erik. G. Larsson

The use of existing network devices as relays has a potential to improve the overall network performance. In this work, we consider a two-hop wireless relay setting, where the channels between the source and relay nodes to the destination…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad , Ozgur Ercetin , Eylem Ekici

This paper studies the notion of age in task-oriented communications that aims to execute a task at a receiver utilizing the data at its transmitter. The transmitter-receiver operations are modeled as an encoder-decoder pair that is jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

We study the multi-terminal remote estimation problem under a rate constraint, in which the goal of the encoder is to help each decoder estimate a function over a certain distribution -- while the distribution is known only to the encoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Maximilian Egger , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Nir Weinberger , Deniz Gündüz

In this article, we establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for remote estimation in a networked system composed of a source that is observed by a sensor, a remote monitor that needs to estimate the state of the source in real time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

We propose a variant of the Age of Information (AoI) metric called Channel-Aware Age of Information (CA-AoI). Unlike AoI, CA-AoI takes into account the channel conditions between the source and the intended destination to compute the "age"…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Bhishma Dedhia , Sharayu Moharir