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Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhengchuan Chen , Yi Qu , Nikolaos Pappas , Chaowei Tang , Min Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Many systems necessitate frequent and consistent updates of a specific information. Often this information is updated regularly, where an old packet becomes completely obsolete in the presence of a new packet. In this context, we consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shiksha Singhal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Vidya Shankar

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

This work highlights the duality between state estimation methods and model predictive control. A predictive controller, observed control, is presented that uses this duality to efficiently compute control actions with linear time-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Eugene T. Hamzezadeh , Andrew J. Petruska

There is a surge of need for fresh information with the overwhelming proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To characterize the information freshness perceived by the destination, the age of information (AoI) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xijun Wang , Shuying Gan , Yanzhi Huang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

We consider data transmission through a time-selective, correlated (first-order Markov) Rayleigh fading channel subject to an average power constraint. The channel is estimated at the receiver with a pilot signal, and the estimate is fed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Manish Agarwal , Michael Honig , Baris Ata

It is becoming increasingly clear that an important task for wireless networks is to minimize the age of information (AoI), i.e., the timeliness of information delivery. While mainstream approaches generally rely on the real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Muxia Sun , Hans D. Schotten

We study the optimal scheduling problem where n source nodes attempt to transmit updates over L shared wireless on/off fading channels to optimize their age performance under energy and age-violation tolerance constraints. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xujin Zhou , Irem Koprulu , Atilla Eryilmaz

A method is presented to automatically generate context models of data by calculating the data's autocorrelation function. The largest values of the autocorrelation function occur at the offsets or lags in the bitstream which tend to be the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-11 John Scoville

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which multiple IoT devices must transmit timely updates on the status information of a common underlying physical process to a common destination. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Since Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed as a metric that quantifies the freshness of information updates in a communication system, there has been a constant effort in understanding and optimizing different statistics of the AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

Emerging cyber-physical systems impel the development of communication protocols that optimize resource utilization. This article investigates infinite-horizon optimal scheduling for resource-aware networked control systems by addressing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Siyi Wang , Sandra Hirche

Age of Information (AoI) reflects the time that is elapsed from the generation of a packet by a 5G user equipment(UE) to the reception of the packet by a controller. A design of an AoI-aware radio resource scheduler for UEs via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chien-Cheng Wu , Petar Popovski , Zheng-Hua Tan , Cedomir Stefanovic

In this paper we consider the classic scheduling problem of minimizing total weighted completion time on unrelated machines when jobs have release times, i.e, $R | r_{ij} | \sum_j w_j C_j$ using the three-field notation. For this problem, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Sungjin Im , Shi Li

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

The notion of timely status updating is investigated in the context of cloud computing. Measurements of a time-varying process of interest are acquired by a sensor node, and uploaded to a cloud server to undergo some required computations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates , H. Vincent Poor

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen

Information freshness has attracted increasingly attention in the past decade as it plays a critical role in the emerging real-time applications. Age of information (AoI) holds the promise of effectively characterizing the information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Haiming Hui , Shuqi Wei , Wei Chen

The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga