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Resource management in Internet of Things (IoT) systems is a major challenge due to the massive scale and heterogeneity of the IoT system. For instance, most IoT applications require timely delivery of collected information, which is a key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Taehyeun Park , Walid Saad , Bo Zhou

In recent years, Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) system has emerged as a promising candidate for multiple access frameworks due to the evolution of deep machine learning, trying to incorporate deep machine learning into the NOMA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 WooSeok Kim , Jeonghoon Lee , Sangho Kim , Taesun An , WonMin Lee , Dowon Kim , Kyungseop Shin

We study the age of information (AoI) in a random access network consisting of multiple source-destination pairs, where each source node is empowered by energy harvesting capability. Every source node transmits a sequence of data packets to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Meng Zhang , Howard H. Yang

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 the intended receivers over a shared spectrum. Due to interference, the dynamics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) is a potential multiple access framework for short-packet internet-of-things (IoT) networks to enhance connectivity. However, the resource allocation problem in GF-NOMA is challenging due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Muhammad Fayaz , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The aim of this letter is to develop a new design of cognitive radio inspired non-orthogonal multiple access (CR-NOMA), which ensures that multiple new users can be supported without causing disruption to the legacy network. Analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Pingzhi Fan , H. Vincent Poor

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of the information at a remote location. AoI reflects the time that is elapsed since the generation of the packet by a transmitter. In this paper, we consider a remote monitoring problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anis Elgabli , Hamza Khan , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

In this paper, the minimization of the weighted sum average age of information (AoI) in a multi-source status update communication system is studied. Multiple independent sources send update packets to a common destination node in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jixuan Wang , Deli Qiao

The unprecedented surge of massive Internet of things (mIoT) traffic in beyond fifth generation (B5G) communication systems calls for transformative approaches for multiple access and data transmission. While classical model-based tools…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Abhishek Kumar , José-Ramón Vidal , Jorge Martinez-Bauset , Frank Y. Li

With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and heterogeneous wireless networks, the Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for evaluating the performance of real-time and personalized systems. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fang Liu , Erchao Zhu , Jiedan Tan , Jingwen Tong , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang

We propose and evaluate age of information (AoI)-aware multiple access mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT) in multi-relay two-hop networks. The network considered comprises end devices (EDs) communicating with a set of relays in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Felippe Moraes Pereira , João Luiz Rebelatto , Richard Demo Souza , Onel Alcaraz López

We consider a random access network consisting of source-destination pairs. Each source node generates status updates and transmits this information to its intended destination over a shared spectrum. The goal is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive devices are deployed, which poses severe challenges on access networks due to limited communication resources. When massive users contend for access, the information freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Dongliang Zhang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen

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

In this work, we consider a remote monitoring scenario in which multiple sensors share a wireless channel to deliver their status updates to a process monitor via an access point (AP). Moreover, we consider that the sensors randomly arrive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Yash Deshpande , Onur Ayan , Wolfgang Kellerer

As development Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) technology and demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increase, there is a growing need for real-time data and communication by vehicle users. Traditional request-based methods face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Ke Xiong

This paper investigates the Age of Information (AoI) performance of Frame Slotted ALOHA with Reservation and Data slots (FSA-RD). We consider a symmetric multi-access network where each user transmits its randomly generated status updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Qian Wang , He Chen

This paper investigates the information freshness of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, where each IoT device makes a partial observation of a common target and transmits the information update to a central receiver to recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiaxin Liang , Tse-Tin Chan , Haoyuan Pan

This article focuses on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA), which aims to achieve automated, adaptive, and high-efficiency multi-user communications towards next generation multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Qimei Chen , Hao Jiang , Zhiguo Ding

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can improve the spectral efficiency by exploiting the power domain and successive interference cancellation (SIC), and it can be applied to various transmission schemes including random access that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jinho Choi