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We study the information freshness under three different source aware packet management policies in a status update system consisting of two independent sources and one server. The packets of each source are generated according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

The capability of mobile devices to use multiple interfaces to support a single session is becoming more prevalent. Prime examples include the desire to implement WiFi offloading and the introduction of 5G. Furthermore, an increasing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Jason Cloud , Muriel Medard

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

The multiple access scheduling decides how the channel is shared among the nodes in the network. Typical scheduling algorithms aims at increasing the channel utilization and thereby throughput of the network. This paper describes several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Klas E. G. Magnusson , Rasmus Brandt , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel

Relay networks having $n$ source-to-destination pairs and $m$ half-duplex relays, all operating in the same frequency band in the presence of block fading, are analyzed. This setup has attracted significant attention and several relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shengshan Cui , Alexander M. Haimovich , Oren Somekh , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a case for exploiting the synergy of dedicated and opportunistic network resources in a distributed hosting platform for data stream processing applications. Our previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shah Asaduzzaman , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

In this work, we design and analyze novel distributed scheduling algorithms for multi-user MIMO systems. In particular, we consider algorithms which do not require sending channel state information to a central processing unit, nor do they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Joseph Kampeas , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

By means of the emerging technique of dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD), the switching point between uplink and downlink transmissions can be optimized across a multi-cell system in order to reduce the impact of inter-cell interference. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 A. M. Fouladgar , O. Simeone , O. Sahin , P. Popovski , S. Shamai

Applications like environmental sensing, and health and activity sensing, are supported by networks of devices (nodes) that send periodic packet transmissions over the wireless channel to a sink node. We look at simple abstractions that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

We study peak Age of Information (PAoI) violation guarantee in a periodic multi-source status update system. The system is served by a shared base station, which requires scheduling. Our main contribution is a randomized scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kuan-Yu Lin , Wei-Lun Lu , Yu-Pin Hsu , Yu-Chih Huang

This letter provides query-age-optimal joint sampling and transmission scheduling policies for a heterogeneous status update system, consisting of a stochastic arrival and a generate-at-will source, with an unreliable channel. Our main goal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Information source sampling and update scheduling have been treated separately in the context of real-time status update for age of information optimization. In this paper, a unified sampling and scheduling ($\mathcal{S}^2$) approach is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yu Cheng

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is an extension to TCP which aggregates multiple parallel connections over available network interfaces. MPTCP bases its scheduling decisions on the individual RTT values observed at the subflows, but does not attempt…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Tanya Shreedhar , Nitinder Mohan , Sanjit K. Kaul , Jussi Kangasharju

Consider the problem of a multiple access channel in a time dependent environment with a large number of users. In such a system, mostly due to practical constraints (e.g., decoding complexity), not all users can be scheduled together, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Ori Shmuel , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

With the rise of Software Defined Networks (SDN), there is growing interest in dynamic and centralized traffic engineering, where decisions about forwarding paths are taken dynamically from a network-wide perspective. Frequent path…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Tal Mizrahi , Yoram Moses

Most existing stochastic models on age of information (AoI) focus on a single shared server serving status update packets from $N>1$ sources where each packet update stream is Poisson, i.e., single-hop scenario. In the current work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Nail Akar , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) serves as a one-size-fits-all solution for mixed-criticality communication, in which flow scheduling is vital to guarantee real-time transmissions. Traditional approaches statically assign priorities to flows…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Miao Guo , Yifei Sun , Chaojie Gu , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi

We consider a cognitive shared access scheme consisting of a high priority primary node and a low priority network with $N$ secondary nodes accessing the spectrum. Assuming bursty traffic at the primary node, saturated queues at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

Scheduling of the transmission of status updates over an error-prone communication channel is studied in order to minimize the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the destination, under an average resource constraint at the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Elif Tugce Ceran , Deniz Gunduz , Andras Gyorgy