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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…

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With the development of IoT, the sensor usage has been elevated to a new level, and it becomes more crucial to maintain reliable sensor networks. In this paper, we provide how to efficiently and reliably manage the sensor monitoring system…

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In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for goal-oriented communication assisted by reconfigurable meta-surfaces in the context of networked control systems. The relation to goal-oriented communication stems from the fact that…

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In this paper, we study a model relevant to semantics-aware goal-oriented communications. More specifically, observations from an external process are transmitted through status updates to a battery-powered receiver. From these updates, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) when the communication channel has a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In this paper, a dense Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is studied in which a large number of devices contend for transmitting timely status packets to their corresponding receivers over wireless noisy channels, using a carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

We propose a linear time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurement model to improve \textit{distributed} estimation performance for localized target tracking. We design distributed filters over sparse (possibly large-scale) communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is particularly relevant in systems where real time responses to anomalies are required, such as natural disaster alerts, cybersecurity warnings, or medical emergency notifications. Keeping system control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Munari , Leonardo Badia , Petar Popovski

Since Shannon's pioneering masterpiece which established the prototype of modern information theory, the goal of communications has long been promising accurate message reconstruction at a refined bit-by-bit level, which deliberately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Siqi Meng , Rongxing Lu , Sumei Sun , Qinyu Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a model relevant to semantics-aware goal-oriented communications, and we propose a new metric that incorporates the utilization of information in addition to its timelines. Specifically, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ali Nikkhah , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Optimizations premised on open-loop metrics such as Age of Information (AoI) indirectly enhance the system's decision-making utility. We therefore propose a novel closed-loop metric named Goal-oriented Tensor (GoT) to directly quantify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu , Sumei Sun , Jie Cao

The accelerated pace of space exploration and satellite connectivity calls for scalable communication network architectures that can effectively cater for increasing numbers of bursty flows, such as those occurring in remote monitoring and…

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The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a metric that can combine the freshness of the information available to a gateway in an Internet of Things (IoT) network with the accuracy of that information. As such, minimizing the AoII can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Anupam Nayak , Anders E. Kalør , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

With the arrival of 6G, the Internet of Things (IoT) traffic is becoming more and more complex and diverse. To meet the diverse service requirements of IoT devices, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) becomes a typical scenario, and…

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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

In this paper, we introduce the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) as an enabler for semantics-empowered communication, a newly advocated communication paradigm centered around data's role and its usefulness to the communication's goal.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

Internet of Things (IoT) applications combine sensing, wireless communication, intelligence, and actuation, enabling the interaction among heterogeneous devices that collect and process considerable amounts of data. However, the…

This paper investigates the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) in a communication system whose channel suffers a random delay. We consider a slotted-time system where a transmitter observes a dynamic source and decides when to send updates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yutao Chen , Anthony Ephremides

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

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