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The emergence of 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 end,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

With its growing number of deployed devices and applications, the Internet of Things (IoT) raises significant challenges for network maintenance procedures. In this work we address a problem of active fault detection in an IoT scenario,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-03 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Alexandros Fragkiadakis , Apostolos Traganitis

We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

We consider a status updating system where having timely knowledge about the information source at the destination (monitor) is of utmost importance. By utilizing the age of information (AoI) metric, the freshness of status update over an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

In this paper, a dense Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is studied in which a large number of devices contend for transmitting timely status packets to their corresponding receivers over wireless noisy channels, using a carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

In this paper, we study an age of information minimization problem, where multiple flows of update packets are sent over multiple servers to their destinations. Two online scheduling policies are proposed. When the packet generation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Sastry Kompella

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

This paper investigates the age of information (AoI) for a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) enabled network, where a sensor first scavenges energy from a wireless power station and then transmits the collected status update to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yang Lu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief

We study the problem of optimizing the decisions of a preemptively capable transmitter to minimize the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) when the communication channel has a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, we study how to collect fresh data in time-varying networks with power constrained users. We measure data freshness from the perspective of the central controller by using the metric Age of Information, namely the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

We consider updating strategies for a local cache which downloads time-sensitive files from a remote server through a bandwidth-constrained link. The files are requested randomly from the cache by local users according to a popularity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Haoyue Tang , Philippe Ciblat , Jintao Wang , Michele Wigger , Roy D. Yates

We study the multi-user scheduling problem for minimizing the Age of Information (AoI) in cellular wireless networks under stationary and non-stationary regimes. We derive fundamental lower bounds for the scheduling problem and design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Subhankar Banerjee , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Sinha

We consider a setting where multiple active sources send real-time updates over a single-hop wireless broadcast network to a monitoring station. Our goal is to design a scheduling policy that minimizes the time-average of general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Vishrant Tripathi , Eytan Modiano

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

Timely status updates are crucial to enabling applications in massive Internet of Things (IoT). This paper measures the data-freshness performance of a status update system with an energy harvesting transmitter, considering the randomness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee

We consider the design of distributed scheduling algorithms that minimize age of information in single-hop wireless networks. The centralized max-weight policy is known to be nearly optimal in this setting; hence, our goal is to design a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Vishrant Tripathi , Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

We address the problem of how to optimally schedule data packets over an unreliable channel in order to minimize the estimation error of a simple-to-implement remote linear estimator using a constant "Kalman'' gain to track the state of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Rahul Singh , Gopal Krishna Kamath , P. R. Kumar

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong