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We study a system in which two-state Markov sources send status updates to a common receiver over a slotted ALOHA random access channel. We characterize the performance of the system in terms of state estimation entropy (SEE), which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Giuseppe Cocco , Andrea Munari , Gianluigi Liva

We consider a slotted-time system with a transmitter-receiver pair. In the system, a transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through a communication channel. We assume that the channel is error-free but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this work, we study the real-time tracking and reconstruction of an information source with the purpose of actuation. A device monitors the state of the information source and transmits status updates to a receiver over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

The emergence of new 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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

In many practical sequential decision-making problems, tracking the state of the environment incurs a sensing/communication/computation cost. In these settings, the agent's interaction with its environment includes the additional component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Vansh Kapoor , Jayakrishnan Nair

We study a remote estimation setup with an autoregressive (AR) Markov process, a sensor, and a remote estimator. The sensor observes the process and sends encoded observations to the estimator as packets over an unreliable communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Manali Dutta , Rahul Singh , Shalabh Bhatnagar

In this work, we derive optimal transmission policies in an energy harvesting status update system. The system monitors a stochastic process which can be either in a normal or in an alarm state of operation. We capture the freshness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

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

We study a real-time tracking problem in an energy harvesting status update system with a Markov source and an imperfect channel, considering both sampling and transmission costs. The problem primary challenge stems from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Marian Codreanu

Age of information (AoI) is one of the key performance metrics for Internet of things (IoT) systems. Timely status updates are essential for many IoT applications; however, they are subject to strict constraints related on the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Elvina Gindullina , Leonardo Badia , Deniz Gündüz

The age of information, as a metric for evaluating information freshness, has received a lot of attention. Recently, an interesting connection between the age of information and remote estimation error was found in a sampling problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tasmeen Zaman Ornee , Yin Sun

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

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

We consider a sensor that samples an $N$-state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC)-based information source process, and transmits the observed state of the source, to a remote monitor tasked with timely tracking of the source process. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ismail Cosandal , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

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 introduce a new performance metric in the framework of status updates that we will refer to as the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). This new metric deals with the shortcomings of both the Age of Information (AoI) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Ali Maatouk , Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates goal-oriented remote monitoring of an unobservable Markov source using energy-harvesting sensors that communicate with a mobile receiver, such as a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Sehani Siriwardana , Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana , Richard Demo Souza , Abolfazl Zakeri , Onel Luis Alcaraz López

Here, we explore the problem of error propagation mitigation in modular digital twins as a sequential decision process. Building on a companion study that used a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to infer latent error regimes from surrogate-physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Annice Najafi , Shokoufeh Mirzaei

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 fundamental remote state estimation problem of discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. A smart sensor forwards its local state estimate to a remote estimator over a time-correlated $M$-state Markov fading channel,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Wanchun Liu , Daniel E. Quevedo , Yonghui Li , Karl Henrik Johansson , Branka Vucetic