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The paper deals with Age of Information (AoI) in a network of multiple sources and parallel queues with buffering capabilities, preemption in service and losses in served packets. The queues do not communicate between each other and the…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Josu Doncel , Mohamad Assaad

While age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a metric characterizing the fresh-ness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications, most previous studies on AoI have been theoretical. In this chapter,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Elif Uysal , Onur Kaya , Sajjad Baghaee , Hasan Burhan Beytur

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm for real-time applications with intensive computational needs (e.g., autonomous driving), as it can reduce the processing delay. In this work, we focus on the timeliness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

A new timeliness metric, called Age-of-Information (AoI), has recently attracted a lot of research interests for real-time applications with information updates. It has been extensively studied for various queueing models based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhongdong Liu , Yu Sang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a key metric for assessing data freshness in IoT applications, where a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a monitor. Such systems often rely on random access protocols based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

The freshness of status updates is imperative in mission-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications. Recently, Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of updates at the receiver. However, AoI only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Wenrui Lin , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen

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

Information freshness is a status update timeliness indicator of utmost importance to several real-time applications, such as connected and autonomous driving. The Ageof- Information (AoI) metric is widely considered as useful to quantify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Mustafa Emara , Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella

Age of information (AoI), a metric to analyse data freshness, is of interest for time-critical applications in upcoming wireless networks. Besides, wireless power transfer (WPT) is also essential to prolong lifetime of a wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Mohammad Javad Emadi , Ioannis Krikidis

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

In this article, we provide an accessible introduction to the emerging idea of Age of Information (AoI) that quantifies freshness of information and explore its possible role in the efficient design of freshness-aware Internet of Things…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Nikolaos Pappas , Harpreet S. Dhillon

The notion of age-of-information (AoI) is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets, which are generated as independent Bernoulli processes, to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Howard H. Yang , Chao Xu , Xijun Wang , Daquan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper we analyze the distribution of the Age of Information (AoI) of a tagged data stream sharing a processor with a set of other data streams. We do so in the highly general setting in which the interarrival times pertaining to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yoshiaki Inoue , Michel Mandjes

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as an important quality-of-service measure for applications that prioritize delivery of the freshest information, e.g., virtual or augmented reality over mobile devices and wireless sensor networks used…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-19 George Kesidis , Takis Konstantopoulos , Michael A. Zazanis

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

Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor