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In most Internet of Things (IoT) networks, edge nodes are commonly used as to relays to cache sensing data generated by IoT sensors as well as provide communication services for data consumers. However, a critical issue of IoT sensing is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiongwei Wu , Xiuhua Li , Jun Li , P. C. Ching , H. Vincent Poor

Using environmental sensory data can enhance communications beam training and reduce its overhead compared to conventional methods. However, the availability of fresh sensory data during inference may be limited due to sensing constraints…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Abolfazl Zakeri , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Markku Juntti

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems have increased the importance of maximizing the freshness of the information about the physical environment. However, optimizing the access policies of Internet of Things devices to maximize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 José-Ramón Vidal , Vicent Pla , Luis Guijarro , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

In this paper, we consider a mobile-edge computing system, where an access point assists a mobile device (MD) to execute an application consisting of multiple tasks following a general task call graph. The objective is to jointly determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) with its growing number of deployed devices and applications raises significant challenges for network maintenance procedures. In this work, we formulate a problem of autonomous maintenance in IoT networks as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Alexandros Fragkiadakis , Apostolos Traganitis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered a novel paradigm for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks in fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. However, its uncertainty, referred to as dynamic and randomness, from the mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Peng Wei , Kun Guo , Ye Li , Jue Wang , Wei Feng , Shi Jin , Ning Ge , Ying-Chang Liang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to play a significant role in the development of 6G networks, as new applications such as cooperative driving and eXtended Reality (XR) require both communication and computational resources from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Federico Chiariotti

The proliferation of mobile devices and real-time status updating applications has motivated the optimization of data freshness in the context of age of information (AoI). Meanwhile, increasing computational demands have inspired research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mengqiu Zhou , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Roy D. Yates

Multi-input multi-out and non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA) internet-of-things (IoT) systems can improve channel capacity and spectrum efficiency distinctly to support the real-time applications. Age of information (AoI) is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongbiao Zhu , Qiong Wu , Qiang Fan , Pingyi Fan , Jiangzhou Wang , Zhengquan Li

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are considered as key enablers for realizing the full potential of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond mobile networks, particularly in the context of resource management and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Farhad Rezazadeh , Lanfranco Zanzi , Francesco Devoti , Sergio Barrachina-Munoz , Engin Zeydan , Xavier Costa-Pérez , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

This paper considers minimizing the age-of-information (AoI) and transmit power consumption in a vehicular network, where a roadside unit (RSU) provides timely updates about a set of physical processes to vehicles. We consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 A. A. Habob , H. Tabassum , O. Waqar

In multi-agent safety-critical scenarios, traditional autonomous driving frameworks face significant challenges in balancing safety constraints and task performance. These frameworks struggle to quantify dynamic interaction risks in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Kaifeng Wang , Yinsong Chen , Qi Liu , Xueyuan Li , Xin Gao

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful solution for meeting the growing demands for connectivity, reliability, low latency and operational efficiency in advanced networks. However, most research has focused on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Haiyuan Li , Hari Madhukumar , Peizheng Li , Yuelin Liu , Yiran Teng , Yulei Wu , Ning Wang , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

Recently, the integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology has given rise to a new area called mobile edge generation and computing (MEGC), which offers mobile users heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Adaptive Mixed-Criticality (AMC) is a fixed-priority preemptive scheduling algorithm for mixed-criticality hard real-time systems. It dominates many other scheduling algorithms for mixed-criticality systems, but does so at the cost of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Bruno Mendes , Pedro F. Souto , Pedro C. Diniz

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

Age of Information (AoI) has been recognized as an important metric to measure the freshness of information. Central to this consensus is that minimizing AoI can enhance the freshness of information, thereby facilitating the accuracy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Xiaomeng Cheng , Sumei Sun

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce service latency for data processing in the Internet of Things, by provisioning computing resources at the network edge. In this work, we jointly optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Laha Ale , Scott A. King , Ning Zhang , Abdul Rahman Sattar , Janahan Skandaraniyam

Data freshness, measured by Age of Information (AoI), is highly relevant in networked applications such as Vehicle to Everything (V2X), smart health systems, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). However, freshness alone does not always…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Gary C. F. Lee , Sumei Sun