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The age of information (AoI) performance metric for point-to-point wireless communication systems is analytically studied under Rician-faded channels and when the receiver is equipped with multiple antennas. The general scenario of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Guanghua Yang

We provide a characterization of the peak age of information (AoI) achievable in a random-access system operating according to the frameless ALOHA protocol. Differently from previous studies, our analysis accounts for the fact that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Giuseppe Durisi , Gianluigi Liva

The Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically assume that packets enter the monitored system with zero age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fernando Miguelez , Urtzi Ayesta , Josu Doncel , Maria Dolores Ugarte

Age of information (AoI) is an effective performance metric measuring the freshness of information and is popular for applications involving status update. Most of the existing works have adopted average AoI as the metric, which cannot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Guan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Yu-Pin Hsu

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas

We consider a network with multiple sources and a base station that send time-sensitive information to remote clients. The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) captures the freshness of the informative pieces of status update packets at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Muratcan Ayik , Elif Tugce Ceran , Elif Uysal

Age of incorrect information (AoII) has recently been proposed as an alternative to existing information freshness metrics for real-time sampling and estimation problems involving information sources that are tracked by remote monitors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

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

We consider a discrete-time multi-channel network where the destination collects time-sensitive packets from multiple sources with sided channel information. The popular metric, Age of Information (AoI), is applied to measure the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Xiaoqing Wang , Jian Song

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

In this paper, we analyze the impact of different encoding schemes on the age of information (AoI) performance in a point-to-point system, where a source generates packets based on the status updates collected from multiple sensors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zhifeng Tang , Nan Yang , Parastoo Sadeghi , Xiangyun Zhou

While the notion of age of information (AoI) has recently been proposed for analyzing ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), most of the existing works have focused on the average AoI measure. Designing a wireless network based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Sumudu Samarakoon , Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Timely and informative data dissemination in communication networks is essential for enhancing system performance and energy efficiency, as it reduces the transmission of outdated or redundant data. Timeliness metrics, such as Age of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

In this letter, we propose reliable covert communications with the aim of minimizing age of information (AoI) in the time-varying channels. We named the time duration that channel state information (CSI) is valid as a new metric, as age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shima Salar Hosseini , Paeiz Azmi , Nader Mokari

Age of incorrect information (AoII) is a recently proposed freshness and mismatch metric that penalizes an incorrect estimation along with its duration. Therefore, keeping track of AoII requires the knowledge of both the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

The freshness or timeliness of data at server is a significant key performance indicator of sensor networks, especially in tolerance critical applications such as factory automation. As an effective and intuitive measurement to data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yulin hu , Hans D. Schotten

We consider a source monitoring a stochastic process with a transmitter to transmit timely information through a wireless ON/OFF channel to a destination. We assume that once the source samples the data, the sampled data has to be processed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jayanth S , Nikolaos Pappas , Rajshekhar V Bhat

We study variable-length codes for point-to-point discrete memoryless channels with noiseless unlimited-rate feedback that occurs in $L$ bursts. We term such codes variable-length bursty-feedback (VLBF) codes. Unlike classical codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 James Y. Chen , Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina

We investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to intended receivers over shared spectrum. We establish an analytical framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor