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In this paper, we study a remote monitoring system where a receiver observes a remote binary Markov source and decides whether to sample and transmit the state through a randomly delayed channel. We adopt uncertainty of information (UoI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xiaomeng Chen , Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu

Managing announced task completion times is a fundamental control problem in project management. While extensive research exists on estimating task durations and task scheduling, the problem of when and how to update completion times…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Duncan Eddy , Esen Yel , Emma Passmore , Niles Egan , Grayson Armour , Dylan M. Asmar , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This work introduces a framework for analyzing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a real-time monitoring system with a generic discrete-time Markov source. We study a noisy communication system employing a hybrid automatic repeat…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Konstantinos Bountrogiannis , Anthony Ephremides , Panagiotis Tsakalides , George Tzagkarakis

In this paper, we investigate denial-of-service attacks against status updating. The target system is modeled by a Markov chain and an unreliable wireless channel, and the performance of status updating in the target system is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Deniz Gündüz , Touraj Soleymani

This paper considers an uplink Internet of Things system with synchronous periodic traffic, where multiple devices generate their status updates at the beginning of each global frame and attempt to send them to a common access point. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yijin Zhang

In this paper, we examine a multi-sensor system where each sensor monitors multiple dynamic information processes and transmits updates over a shared communication channel. These updates may include correlated information across the various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Egemen Erbayat , Ali Maatouk , Peng Zou , Suresh Subramaniam

Intelligent real-time applications, such as video surveillance, demand intensive computation to extract status information from raw sensing data. This poses a substantial challenge in orchestrating computation and communication resources to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jingzhou Sun , Lehan Wang , Zhaojun Nan , Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Battery-less Internet of Things (IoT) devices rely on ambient energy harvesting and therefore require scheduling policies that jointly account for energy intermittency and hard timing constraints. This challenge is especially acute in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Shahab Jahanbazi , Mateen Ashraf , Onel L. A. López

We consider the downlink of a cellular system and address the problem of multiuser scheduling with partial channel information. In our setting, the channel of each user is modeled by a three-state Markov chain. The scheduler indirectly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Sugumar Murugesan , Philip Schniter

We consider an information update system consisting of $N$ sources sending status packets at random instances according to a Poisson process to a remote monitor through a single server. We assume a heteregeneous server with exponentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Ege Orkun Gamgam , Nail Akar

In this work, we investigate the design of information-update systems, where incoming update packets are forwarded to a remote destination through multiple servers (each server can be viewed as a wireless channel). One important performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

In wireless communication systems, mmWave beam tracking is a critical task that affects both sensing and communications, as it is related to the knowledge of the wireless channel. We consider a setup in which a Base Station (BS) needs to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Carles Navarro Manchón , Ramoni Adeogun , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates information freshness of multichannel access in information update systems. Age of information (AoI) is a fundamentally important metric to characterize information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jiaxin Liang , Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

A sensor samples and transmits status updates to a destination through a wireless channel that wears out over time and with every use. At each time slot, the sensor can decide to sample and transmit a fresh status update, restore the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 George J. Stamatakis , Osvaldo Simeone , Nikolaos Pappas

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Massive MIMO is widely considered as a key enabler of the next generation 5G networks. With a large number of antennas at the Base Station, both spectral and energy efficiencies can be enhanced. Unfortunately, the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ali Maatouk , Salah Eddine Hajri , Mohamad Assaad , Hikmet Sari

We consider the uplink of a multicell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output system where the channel experiences both small and large-scale fading. The data detection is done by using the linear zero-forcing technique, assuming the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Trung Q. Duong , Erik G. Larsson

As an emerging metric for the timeliness of information delivery, Age-of-Information (AoI) raises a special interest in the research area of tolerance-critical communications, wherein sufficiently short blocklength is usually adopted as an…

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

In this paper, we study a real-time monitoring system in which multiple source nodes are responsible for sending update packets to a common destination node in order to maintain the freshness of information at the destination. Since it may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider a status update system, in which update packets are sent to the destination via a wireless medium that allows for multiple rates, where a higher rate also naturally corresponds to a higher error probability. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Guidan Yao , Ahmed M. Bedewy , Ness B. Shroff