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This work explores employing the concept of goal-oriented (GO) semantic communication for real-time monitoring and control. Generally, GO communication advocates for the deep integration of application targets into the network design. We…

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Age of information (AoI) is gaining attention as a valuable performance metric for many IoT systems, in which a large number of devices report time-stamped updates to a central gateway. This is the case, for instance, of remote sensing,…

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The first 6G standardization efforts are about to start, shaping the new generation of mobile networks. The IMT-2030 extends the IMT-2020 by expanding its usage scenarios to Immersive, Massive, and Hyper-Reliable and Low-Latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Federico Tonini , Davide Borsatti , Wint Yi Poe , Riccardo Trivisonno , Walter Cerroni

Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks evolve from connecting devices to connecting intelligence. The focus turns to Goal-Oriented Communications, where the effectiveness of communication is assessed through task-level objectives over…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Zhan Gao , Tony Chahoud , Yiqun Wu , Lukas Eller , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone

Delay and Age-of-Information (AoI) are two crucial performance metrics for emerging time-sensitive applications in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In order to achieve optimal performance, studying the inherent interplay between these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Hossam Farag , Cedomir Stefanovic , Mikael Gidlund

Age of incorrect information (AoII) is a recently proposed freshness and mismatch metric that penalizes an incorrect estimation along with its duration. Therefore, keeping track of AoII requires the knowledge of both the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Goal-Oriented (GO) Dialogue Systems, colloquially known as goal oriented chatbots, help users achieve a predefined goal (e.g. book a movie ticket) within a closed domain. A first step is to understand the user's goal by using natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Vladimir Ilievski , Claudiu Musat , Andreea Hossmann , Michael Baeriswyl

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

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

This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source's data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Christopher Daniel , Ahmed Arafa

We address the real-time remote tracking problem in a status update system comprising two sensors, two independent information sources, and a remote monitor. The status updating follows a pull-based communication, where the monitor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Marian Codreanu

In this paper, a dense Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which a large number of IoT devices contend for channel access so as to transmit timely status updates to the corresponding receivers using a carrier sense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

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

In real-time Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), e.g., monitoring and control scenarios, the freshness of data is crucial to maintain the system functionality and stability. In this paper, we propose an AoI-Aware Deep Learning (AA-DL)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hossam Farag , Mohamed Ragab , Cedomir Stefanovic

Real-time intelligence applications in Internet of Things (IoT) environment depend on timely data communication. However, it is challenging to transmit and analyse massive data of various modalities. Recently proposed task-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shiqi Wang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Flanking traditional metrics such as throughput and reliability, age of information (AoI) is emerging as a fundamental tool to capture the performance of IoT systems. In this context, we focus on a setup in which a large number of nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Andrea Munari , Alexey Frolov

For a remote estimation system, we study age of incorrect information (AoII), which is a recently proposed semantic-aware freshness metric. In particular, we assume an information source observing a discrete-time finite-state Markov chain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

We consider a transmitter-receiver pair in a slotted-time system. The transmitter observes a dynamic source and sends updates to a remote receiver through an error-free communication channel that suffers a random delay. We consider two…

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