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With the advancement of technologies like Industry 4.0, communication networks must meet stringent requirements of applications demanding deterministic and bounded latencies. The problem is further compounded by the need to periodically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Aviroop Ghosh , Saleh Yousefi , Thomas Kunz

In the Internet of Things (IoT) networks, caching is a promising technique to alleviate energy consumption of sensors by responding to users' data requests with the data packets cached in the edge caching node (ECN). However, without an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chao Xu , Yiping Xie , Xijun Wang , Howard H. Yang , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

Age of Information (AoI) is a crucial metric for quantifying information freshness in real-time systems where the sampling rate of data packets is time-varying. Evaluating AoI under such conditions is challenging, as system states become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jin Xu , Weiqi Wang , Natarajan Gautam

This paper investigates an expected average error for distributed averaging problems under asynchronous updates. The asynchronism in this context implies no existence of a global clock as well as random characteristics in communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Kooktae Lee

Age of Information (AoI) has gained importance as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for characterizing the freshness of information in information-update systems and time-critical applications. Recent theoretical research on the topic has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Hasan Burhan Beytur , Sajjad Baghaee , Elif Uysal

We consider the problem of multiple sensor scheduling for remote state estimation of multiple process over a shared link. In this problem, a set of sensors monitor mutually independent dynamical systems in parallel but only one sensor can…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Duo Han , Junfeng Wu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

In 5G and beyond communication systems, the notion of latency gets great momentum in wireless connectivity as a metric for serving real-time communications requirements. However, in many applications, research has pointed out that latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Themistoklis Charalambous , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

In cyber-physical systems, as in 5G and beyond, multiple physical processes require timely online monitoring at a remote device. There, the received information is used to estimate current and future process values. When transmitting the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefan Roth , Ahmed Arafa , H. Vincent Poor , Aydin Sezgin

This paper considers the problem of sensory data scheduling of multiple processes. There are $n$ independent linear time-invariant processes and a remote estimator monitoring all the processes. Each process is measured by a sensor, which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

We study cyclic scheduling for generate-at-will (GAW) multi-source status update systems with heterogeneous service times and packet drop probabilities, with the aim of minimizing the weighted sum age of information (AoI), called system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Nail Akar , Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus

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

This paper investigates the information freshness of two-hop networks. Age of information (AoI) is used as the metric to characterize the information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the latest received status update was…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Jian Feng , Haoyuan Pan , Tse-Tin Chan , Jiaxin Liang

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

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which multiple IoT devices must transmit timely updates on the status information of a common underlying physical process to a common destination. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

We study the scheduling problem for a multi-source single-server generate-at-will (GAW) status update system with sources having heterogeneous service times and weights, with the goal of minimizing the weighted sum age of information (AoI).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ege Orkun Gamgam , Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

This paper considers online optimization for a system that performs a sequence of back-to-back tasks. Each task can be processed in one of multiple processing modes that affect the duration of the task, the reward earned, and an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Michael J. Neely

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

The age of Information (AoI) has been introduced to capture the notion of freshness in real-time monitoring applications. However, this metric falls short in many scenarios, especially when quantifying the mismatch between the current and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad

The joint design of control and communication scheduling in a Networked Control System (NCS) is known to be a hard problem. Several research works have successfully designed optimal sampling and/or control strategies under simplified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Jaya Prakash Champati , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Karl H. Johansson , James Gross