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A status updating system is considered in which data from multiple sources are sampled by an energy harvesting sensor and transmitted to a remote destination through an erasure channel. The goal is to deliver status updates of all sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

In a typical Internet of Things (IoT) application where a central controller collects status updates from multiple terminals, e.g., sensors and monitors, through a wireless multiaccess uplink, an important problem is how to attain timely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

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

Multi-input multi-out and non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA) internet-of-things (IoT) systems can improve channel capacity and spectrum efficiency distinctly to support the real-time applications. Age of information (AoI) is an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongbiao Zhu , Qiong Wu , Qiang Fan , Pingyi Fan , Jiangzhou Wang , Zhengquan Li

Satellite-based Internet of Things (S-IoT) faces a fundamental trilemma: propagation delay, dynamic fading, and bandwidth scarcity. While Layer-coded Hybrid ARQ (L-HARQ) enhances reliability, its backtracking decoding introduces age…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yuhua Zhao , Tiejun Lv , Ke Wang

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

In this work, we consider a real-time IoT monitoring system in which an energy harvesting sensor with a finite-size battery measures a physical process and transmits the status updates to an aggregator. The aggregator, equipped with caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) in a system where physical sources produce independent discrete-time updates that are each observed by several sensors. We devise a model that is simple, but still capable to capture the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

This paper considers utilizing the knowledge of age gains to reduce the network average age of information (AoI) in random access with event-driven periodic updating for the first time. Built on the form of slotted ALOHA, we require each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yuqing Zhu , Yiwen Zhu , Aoyu Gong , Yan Lin , Yuan-Hsuan Lo , Yijin Zhang

We consider an energy harvesting sensor that is sending measurement updates regarding some physical phenomenon to a destination. The sensor relies on energy harvested from nature to measure and send its updates, and is equipped with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus

As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale and device heterogeneity grows, multimodal data have become ubiquitous. Meanwhile, evaluating the freshness of multimodal data is essential, as stale updates would delay task execution, degrade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ying Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Chao Yang , Kandaraj Piamrat , Stephan Sigg , Zheng Changr , Yusheng Ji

We propose and evaluate the performance of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) dual-hop multiple relay (MR) network from an information freshness perspective using the Age of Information (AoI) metric. More specifically, we consider an…

Energy-awareness for adapting task execution behavior can bring several benefits in terms of performance improvement in energy harvesting (EH) Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, the energy measurement cost of acquiring energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Mateen Ashraf , Shahab Jahanbazi , Onel L. A. López

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Jinwoong Kim , Minsu Kim , Jemin Lee

Motivated by cooperative distributed networks in which users dynamically alternate between transmit and receive modes under half-duplex constraints, this paper studies the Age of Information (AoI) in a distributed multi-user network using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peng Zou , Ali Maatouk , Egemen Erbayat , Suresh Subramaniam

We investigate the age-of-information (AoI) in the context of random access networks, in which transmitters need to send a sequence of information packets to intended receivers over shared spectrum. We establish an analytical framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

This work explores systems where source updates require multiple sequential processing steps. We model and analyze the Age of Information (AoI) performance of various system designs under both parallel and series server setups. In parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Vishakha Ramani , Ivan Seskar , Roy D. Yates

We investigate a remote monitoring framework with multiple sensing modalities including IoT sensors on the ground, mobile UAVs in the air, and a periodically available satellite constellation. While the IoT sensors cover small areas and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sunjung Kang , Vishrant Tripathi , Christopher G. Brinton

A large body of applications that involve monitoring, decision making, and forecasting require timely status updates for their efficient operation. Age of Information (AoI) is a newly proposed metric that effectively captures this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis