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We study age of information (AoI) in a single-source dual-server status update system for the generate at will (GAW) scenario, consisting of an information source, dual servers, and a monitor. For this system, the method of stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

The notion of timely status updating is investigated in the context of cloud computing. Measurements of a time-varying process of interest are acquired by a sensor node, and uploaded to a cloud server to undergo some required computations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates , H. Vincent Poor

We study the trade-off between Age of Information (AoI) and maximal leakage (MaxL) in discrete-time status updating systems. A source generates time-stamped update packets that are processed by a server that delivers them to a monitor. An…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nitya Sathyavageeswaran , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan B. Mandayam , Roy D. Yates

This paper studies information timeliness in multi-source wireless Internet of Things (IoT) status updating systems under a truncated Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We propose a source-aware truncated ARQ (SATARQ) scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianci Zhang , Aobo Liu , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Jemin Lee , Yuquan Xiao , Mehul Motani

We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Age of Information (AoI) is a key metric to understand data freshness in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this paper we analyse an intermittently-powered IoT sensor - with mixed-memory (volatile and non-volatile) architecture - that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 James Scott Broadhead , Przemysław Pawełczak

In this study, we investigate the optimal transmission policies within an energy harvesting status update system, where the demand for status updates depends on the state of the source. The system monitors a two-state Markovian source that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Erfan Delfani , George J. Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas

In an Internet-of-Things system where status data are collected from sensors and actuators for time-critical applications, the freshness of data is vital and can be quantified by the recently proposed age-of-information (AoI) metric. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We study age of information in a status updating system that consists of a single sampler, i.e., source node, that sends time-sensitive status updates to a single monitor node through a server node. We first consider a Gilbert-Elliot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Baturalp Buyukates , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a status update system consisting of two independent sources and one server in which packets of each source are generated according to the Poisson process and packets are served according to an exponentially distributed service…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

In this paper, we introduce two metrics, namely, age of actuation (AoA) and age of actuated information (AoAI), within a discrete-time system model that integrates data caching and energy harvesting (EH). AoA evaluates the timeliness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

The notion of age-of-information (AoI) is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets, which are generated as independent Bernoulli processes, to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Howard H. Yang , Chao Xu , Xijun Wang , Daquan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Emerging applications in Internet of Things (IoT), such as remote monitoring and control, extensively rely on timely status updates. Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to characterize the freshness of information in status update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

The age of information (AoI) has been studied actively in recent years as a performance measure for systems that require real-time performance, such as remote monitoring systems via communication networks. The theoretical analysis of the…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Atsushi Inoie , Yoshiaki Inoue

We consider an M server system in which each server can service at most one update packet at a time. The system designer controls (1) scheduling - the order in which the packets get serviced, (2) routing - the server that an arriving update…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Rajat Talak , Eytan Modiano

The study of optimal preemption policies for status update systems has been a recurring topic in the age of information (AoI) literature, where threshold-based structures have been shown to be optimal under a generate-at-will update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

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

Age of Information (AoI), measures the time elapsed since the last received information packet was generated at the source. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for single-hop flows in a wireless network, under pairwise interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Read-optimized columnar databases use differential updates to handle writes by maintaining a separate write-optimized delta partition which is periodically merged with the read-optimized and compressed main partition. This merge process…