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In this paper, we develop a hierarchical aerial computing framework composed of high altitude platform (HAP) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to compute the fully offloaded tasks of terrestrial mobile users which are connected through an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Maryam Ansarifard , Nader Mokari , Mohammadreza Javan , Hamid Saeedi , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

This paper addresses the problem of Age-of-Information (AoI) in UAV-assisted networks. Our objective is to minimize the expected AoI across devices by optimizing UAVs' stopping locations and device selection probabilities. To tackle this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided data collection is a new and promising application in many practical scenarios. In this work, we study the age-optimal trajectory planning problem in UAV-enabled wireless sensor networks, where a UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Juan Liu , Xijun Wang , Bo Bai , Huaiyu Dai

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms play an effective role in timely data collection from ground sensors in remote and hostile areas. Optimizing the collective behavior of swarms can improve data collection performance. This paper puts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Yousef Emami , Hao Gao , Kai Li , Luis Almeida , Eduardo Tovar , Zhu Han

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

In this work, we adopt the emerging technology of mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for communication-computing systems, to optimize the age of information (AoI) in the network. We assume that tasks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Marjan Tajik , Mohammadreza Maleki , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Hamid Saeedi , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

In many massive IoT communication scenarios, the IoT devices require coverage from dynamic units that can move close to the IoT devices and reduce the uplink energy consumption. A robust solution is to deploy a large number of UAVs (UAV…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

We propose and evaluate age of information (AoI)-aware multiple access mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT) in multi-relay two-hop networks. The network considered comprises end devices (EDs) communicating with a set of relays in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Felippe Moraes Pereira , João Luiz Rebelatto , Richard Demo Souza , Onel Alcaraz López

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), due to their low cost and high flexibility, have been widely used in various scenarios to enhance network performance. However, the optimization of UAV trajectories in unknown areas or areas without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuhao Pan , Xiucheng Wang , Zhiyao Xu , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu , Jun-jie Zhang

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the trajectory planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Zhen Gao

The age of information (AoI) is used to measure the freshness of the data. In IoT networks, the traditional resource management schemes rely on a message exchange between the devices and the base station (BS) before communication which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, there is increasing demand for real-time data collection using UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks. This paper investigates the problem of minimizing the age of information (AoI) in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Bisheng Wei , Ruichen Zhang , Ruihong Jiang , Mugen Peng , Dusit Niyato

This paper considers multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to assist sensing data transmissions from the ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS). Each UAV collects sensing data from the GUs and then forwards the sensing data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yusi Long , Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin , Shen

The significance of the freshness of sensor and control data at the receiver side, often referred to as Age of Information (AoI), is fundamentally constrained by contention for limited network resources. Evidently, network congestion is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Anam Tahir , Kai Cui , Bastian Alt , Amr Rizk , Heinz Koeppl

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. Since AoI combines packet generation frequency, packet loss, and delay into a single metric, it has received a lot of research attention as an interface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Wolfgang Kellerer

In this paper, a lifelong learning problem is studied for an Internet of Things (IoT) system. In the considered model, each IoT device aims to balance its information freshness and energy consumption tradeoff by controlling its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhenzhen Gong , Qimei Cui , Christina Chaccour , Bo Zhou , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

In delay-sensitive industrial internet of things (IIoT) applications, the age of information (AoI) is employed to characterize the freshness of information. Meanwhile, the emerging network function virtualization provides flexibility and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mohammad Akbari , Mohammad Reza Abedi , Roghayeh Joda , Mohsen Pourghasemian , Nader Mokari , Melike Erol-Kantarci