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Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source continuously monitors an object and sends time-stamped status updates to a destination through a rate-limited link. We assume updates arrive randomly at the source according to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Boyu Wang , Songtao Feng , Jing Yang

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

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

Age of Information (AoI), namely the time that has elapsed since the most recently delivered packet was generated, is receiving increasing attention with the emergence of many real-time applications that rely on the exchange of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xinlu Dai , Cyril Leung

The Age-of-Information (AoI) is a new performance metric recently proposed for measuring the freshness of information in information-update systems. In this work, we conduct a systematic and comparative study to investigate the impact of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Zhongdong Liu , Liang Huang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

This work explores systems where source updates require multiple sequential processing steps. We model and analyze the Age of Information (AoI) performance of various system designs under both parallel and series server setups. In parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Vishakha Ramani , Ivan Seskar , Roy D. Yates

The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes, where a user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Fengjiao Li , Yu Sang , Zhongdong Liu , Bin Li , Huasen Wu , Bo Ji

We consider a system consisting of a library of time-varying files, a server that at all times observes the current version of all files, and a cache that at the beginning stores the current versions of all files but afterwards has to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Haoyue Tang , Philippe Ciblat , Jintao Wang , Michele Wigger , Roy Yates

Age of information (AoI) is an effective measure to quantify the information freshness in wireless status update systems. It has been further validated that the peak AoI has the potential to capture the core characteristics of the aging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du , George K. Karagiannidis

A status updating system is considered in which multiple processes are sampled and transmitted through a shared channel. Each process has its dedicated server that processes its samples before time stamping them for transmission. Time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Md Nurul Absar Siddiky , Ahmed Arafa

The freshness of status information is of great importance for time-critical Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A metric measuring status freshness is the age-of-information (AoI), which captures the time elapsed from the status being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Rui Li , Qian Ma , Jie Gong , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

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

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) in a system where physical sources produce independent discrete-time updates that are each observed by several sensors. We devise a model that is simple, but still capable to capture the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we consider a multiuser uplink status update system, where a monitor aims to timely collect randomly generated status updates from multiple end nodes through a shared wireless channel. We adopt the recently proposed metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Aoyu Gong , Tong Zhang , He Chen , Yijin Zhang

This letter provides query-age-optimal joint sampling and transmission scheduling policies for a heterogeneous status update system, consisting of a stochastic arrival and a generate-at-will source, with an unreliable channel. Our main goal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this paper we consider the age of information (AoI) of a status updating system with a relay, where the updates are delivered to destination either from the direct line or the two-hop link via the relay. An updating packet generated at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Jixiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu

Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

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

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du