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Information source sampling and update scheduling have been treated separately in the context of real-time status update for age of information optimization. In this paper, a unified sampling and scheduling ($\mathcal{S}^2$) approach is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yu Cheng

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the age of information in a multi-source system, where samples are taken from multiple sources and sent to a destination via a channel with random delay. Due to interference, only one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Sastry Kompella , Ness B. Shroff

When making decisions in a network, it is important to have up-to-date knowledge of the current state of the system. Obtaining this information, however, comes at a cost. In this paper, we determine the optimal finite-time update policy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Eric Graves , Jake B. Perazzone , Kevin Chan

Received samples of a stochastic process are processed by a server for delivery as updates to a monitor. Each sample belongs to a class that specifies a distribution for its processing time and a function that describes how the value of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates

We consider a multi-source status update system consisting of multiple independent sources, a single server, and a single sink. Each source generates packets according to a Poisson process, and packets are served according to a general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mohammad Moltafet , Hamid R. Sadjadpour , Zouheir Rezki , Marian Codreanu , Roy D. Yates

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

We propose two scheduling algorithms that seek to optimize the quality of scalably coded videos that have been stored at a video server before transmission.} The first scheduling algorithm is derived from a Markov Decision Process (MDP)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Chao Chen , Robert W. Heath , Alan C. Bovik , Gustavo de Veciana

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

We consider a system where randomly generated updates are to be transmitted to a monitor, but only a single update can be in the transmission service at a time. Therefore, the source has to prioritize between the two possible transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Elie Najm , Roy D. Yates , Emina Soljanin

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

In this paper, we consider an information update system where wireless sensor sends timely updates to the destination over a random blocking terahertz channel with the supply of harvested energy and reliable energy backup. The paper aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Lixin Wang , Fuzhou Peng , Xiang Chen , Shidong Zhou

We consider the problem of multiple sensor scheduling for remote state estimation of multiple process over a shared link. In this problem, a set of sensors monitor mutually independent dynamical systems in parallel but only one sensor can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Duo Han , Junfeng Wu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

In this work, we consider a status update system with a sensor and a receiver. The status update information is sampled by the sensor and then forwarded to the receiver through a channel with non-stationary delay distribution. The data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jinheng Zhang , Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Sastry Kompella , Leandros Tassiulas

In this work, we study how to optimally manage the freshness of information updates sent from a source node to a destination via a channel. A proper metric for data freshness at the destination is the age-of-information, or simply age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Roy D. Yates , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we consider a status updating system where updates are generated at a constant rate at $K$ sources and sent to the corresponding recipients through a noise-free broadcast channel. We assume that perfect channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

Future real-time applications like smart cities will use complex Machine Learning (ML) models for a variety of tasks. Timely status information is required for these applications to be reliable. Offloading computation to a mobile edge cloud…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Nitya Sathyavageeswaran , Roy D. Yates , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan Mandayam

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

In this work, we consider the problem of jointly minimizing the average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information (AoI) constraints. Errors in the transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a communication system in which status updates arrive at a source node, and should be transmitted through a network to the intended destination node. The status updates are samples of a random process under observation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Maice Costa , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides