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More and more emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications involve status updates, where various IoT devices monitor certain physical processes and report their latest statuses to the relevant information fusion nodes. A new performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Zixiao Han , Jiaxin Liang , Yifan Gu , He Chen

The timely sharing of raw sensing information in the vehicular networks (VNETs) is essential to safety. In order to improve the freshness of sensing information, joint scheduling of multi-dimensional resources such as communication and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ning Jiang , Shi Yan , Zhuohan Liu , Chunjing Hu , Mugen Peng

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

The proliferation of smart mobile devices has spurred an explosive growth of mobile crowd-learning services, where service providers rely on the user community to voluntarily collect, report, and share real-time information for a collection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bin Li , Jia Liu

We study a goal-oriented communication system in which a source monitors an environment that evolves as a discrete-time, two-state Markov chain. At each time slot, a controller decides whether to sample the environment and if so whether to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Rishabh S. Pomaje , Jayanth S. , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Age of Information (AoI) has become a vital performance metric for evaluating the freshness of information in communication systems. Although many studies aim to minimize the average AoI of the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cui Zhang , Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

With the surge in IoT devices ranging from wearables to smart homes, prompt transmission is crucial. The Age of Information (AoI) emerges as a critical metric in this context, representing the freshness of the information transmitted across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

This paper characterizes the structure of the Age of Information (AoI)-optimal policy in wireless powered communication systems while accounting for the time and energy costs of generating status updates at the source nodes. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider the age of information (AoI) of a discrete time status updating system, focusing on finding the stationary AoI distribution assuming that the Ber/G/1/1 queue is used. Following the standard queueing theory, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Jixiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu

The emergence of new intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

Many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications rely on information collected by sensor nodes where the freshness of information is an important criterion. \textit{Age of Information} (AoI) is a metric that quantifies information…

Since Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed as a metric that quantifies the freshness of information updates in a communication system, there has been a constant effort in understanding and optimizing different statistics of the AoI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jaya Prakash Champati , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , James Gross

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…

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

Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

In this work, a wireless broadcast network with a base station (BS) sending random time-sensitive information updates to multiple users with interference constraints is considered. The Age of Synchronization (AoS), namely the amount of time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Zihan Tang , Jian Song

The groundbreaking metric age of information (AoI) has been introduced to measure information freshness in communication networks. As transformational as it is, AoI metric falls short in some applications, such as remote monitoring, since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

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

We optimize the Age of Information (AoI) in mobile networks using the age-threshold slotted ALOHA (TSA) protocol. The network comprises multiple source-destination pairs, where each source sends a sequence of status update packets to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Chuan Ma , Xinghua Sun , Tony Q. S. Quek , Howard H. Yang

Age of Information (AoI) is a metric and KPI that has been developed for measuring and controlling data freshness. Optimization of AoI in a real-life network requires adapting the rate and timing of transmissions to varying network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

Age-of-Information (AoI) is an application layer metric that has been widely adopted to quantify the information freshness of each information source. However, few works address the impact of probabilistic transmission failures on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Chenchen Fu , Vincent Chau , Xiang Liu , Jianping Wang , Junzhou Luo