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We analyze Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where nodes use a spatially adaptive random access scheme to send status updates to a central base station. We show that the set of achievable AoI in this setting is convex, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

This paper considers utilizing the knowledge of age gains to reduce the network average age of information (AoI) in random access with event-driven periodic updating for the first time. Built on the form of slotted ALOHA, we require each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yuan-Hsuan Lo , Yijin Zhang

We investigate the age of information (AoI) of a relay-assisted cooperative communication system, where a source node sends status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible with the aid of a relay node. For time-slotted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyuan Pan , Jian Feng , Tse-Tin Chan , Victor C. M. Leung , Jianqiang Li

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a key technology to enable massive machine type communications (mMTC) in 5G networks and beyond. In this paper, NOMA is applied to improve the random access efficiency in high-density…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is studied. In the considered model, each IoT device monitors a physical process that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

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

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

The massive machine-type communications (mMTC) service will be part of new services planned to integrate the fifth generation of wireless communication (B5G). In mMTC, thousands of devices sporadically access available resource blocks on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Giovanni Maciel Ferreira Silva , Taufik Abrão

The Internet of things (IoT), which is the network of physical devices embedded with sensors, actuators, and connec- tivity, is being accelerated into the mainstream by the emergence of 5G wireless networking. This paper presents an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Mohamed Elkourdi , Asim Mazin , Eren Balevi , Richard D. Gitlin

Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive data to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users under a constraint on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Elif Tuğçe Ceran , Deniz Gündüz , András György

As an evolving successor to the mobile Internet, the extended reality (XR) devices can generate a fully digital immersive environment similar to the real world, integrating integrating virtual and real-world elements. However, in addition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jianrui Chen , Jingjing Wang , Chunxiao Jiang , Jiaxing Wang

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 Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically assume that packets enter the monitored system with zero age,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fernando Miguelez , Urtzi Ayesta , Josu Doncel , Maria Dolores Ugarte

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) exploits the potential of the power domain to enhance the connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to time-varying communication channels, dynamic user clustering is a promising method to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Waleed Ahsan , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Information aging has gained prominence in characterizing communication protocols for timely remote estimation and control applications. This work proposes an Age of Information (AoI)-aware threshold-based dynamic frame slotted ALOHA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Ahmad Khonsari , Hina Tabassum

The present paper focuses on an IoT setting in which a large number of devices generate time-stamped updates addressed to a common gateway. Medium access is regulated following a grant-free approach, and the system aims at maintaining an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hooman Asgari , Andrea Munari , Gianluigi Liva

Age of Information (AoI) is a newly appeared concept and metric to characterize the freshness of data. In this work, we study the delay and AoI in a multiple access channel (MAC) with two source nodes transmitting different types of data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we study the moments of the Age of Information (AoI) for both active and passive users in a random access network. In this network, active users broadcast sensing data, while passive users detect in-band radio activities from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Siqi Fan , Yuxin Zhong , I-Hong Hou , Clement K Kam

In this paper, we consider the multicast transmission of a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) system, where an access point (AP) transmits time-stamped status updates to multiple IoT devices. Different from the existing studies that only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Jie Li , Yong Zhou , He Chen

Age of Information (AoI) measures the freshness of data in mission critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications i.e., industrial internet, intelligent transportation systems etc. In this paper, a new system model is proposed to estimate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chathuranga M. Wijerathna Basnayaka , Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody , Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera , Moises Vidal Ribeiro