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Age-of-Information (AoI) is an application layer metric that has been widely adopted to quantify the information freshness of each information source. However, few works address the impact of probabilistic transmission failures on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Chenchen Fu , Vincent Chau , Xiang Liu , Jianping Wang , Junzhou Luo

Timely message delivery is a key enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to support wide range of context-dependent applications. Conventional time-related metrics, such as delay, fails to characterize the timeliness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch

This work studies a real-time environment monitoring scenario in the industrial Internet of things, where wireless sensors proactively collect environmental data and transmit it to the controller. We adopt the notion of risk-sensitivity in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yung-Lin Hsu , Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Hung-Yu Wei , Mehdi Bennis

Today's wireless networks allocate radio resources to users based on the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) principle. However, as the number of users increases, OMA based approaches may not meet the stringent emerging requirements including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-28 Mahmoud Aldababsa , Mesut Toka , Selahattin Gokceli , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Oguz Kucur

Broader applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) are expected in the forthcoming 6G system, although massive IoT is already a key scenario in 5G, predominantly relying on physical layer solutions inherited from 4G LTE and primarily…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yifei Yuan , Sen Wang , Yongpeng Wu , H. Vincent Poor , Zhiguo Ding , Xiaohu You , Lajos Hanzo

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen

Age of information (AoI) has been proposed as a more suitable metric for characterizing the freshness of information than traditional metrics like delay and throughput. However, the calculation of AoI requires complex analysis and strict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Licheng Chen , Yunquan Dong

Recent years have seen proliferation in versatile mobile devices and an upsurge in the growth of data-consuming application services. Orthogonal multiple access (OMA) technologies in today's mobile systems fall inefficient in the presence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Wei Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiqing Luo , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Future wireless access networks need to support diversified quality of service (QoS) metrics required by various types of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, e.g., age of information (AoI) for status generating sources and ultra low latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In this paper, we address the optimization problem of moments of Age of Information (AoI) for active and passive users in a random access network. In this network, active users broadcast sensing data while passive users only receive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Siqi Fan , Yuxin Zhong , I-Hong Hou , Clement Kam

We focus on a system in which a set of two-state Markov sources report status update to a common receiver over a shared wireless channel. Inspired by practical IoT networks, we consider three variations of ALOHA as medium access protocol:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andrea Munari

In this paper, we study a real-time monitoring system in which multiple source nodes are responsible for sending update packets to a common destination node in order to maintain the freshness of information at the destination. Since it may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

Age-of-information (AoI) is a critical metric that quantifies the freshness of data in communication systems. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), data collected by resource-constrained devices often need to be transmitted to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ching-Chi Lin , Mario Günzel , Jian-Jia Chen

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi

To support Machine Type Communications (MTC) in next generation mobile networks, NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) has been released by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a promising solution to provide extended coverage and low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Ali Shahini , Nirwan Ansari

Achieving significant performance gains both in terms of system throughput and massive connectivity, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a very promising candidate for future wireless communications technologies. It…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zeyad Elsaraf , Faheem A. Khan , Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed

The Version Age of Information (VAoI) quantifies information freshness by measuring the number of versions the receiver lags behind. This paper studies VAoI minimization in an $M$-user uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gangadhar Karevvanavar , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

A feature of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that some users in the system need to be served quickly for small packet transmission. To address this requirement, a new multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Z. Ding , L. Dai , H. V. Poor

We examine the age of information (AoI) of a status update system that incorporates energy harvesting and uses the slotted ALOHA protocol. We derive analytically the average AoI and the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro

The significance of the freshness of sensor and control data at the receiver side, often referred to as Age of Information (AoI), is fundamentally constrained by contention for limited network resources. Evidently, network congestion is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Anam Tahir , Kai Cui , Bastian Alt , Amr Rizk , Heinz Koeppl