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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) leverages computational heterogeneity between mobile devices and edge nodes to enable real-time applications requiring high information freshness. The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric serves as a crucial evaluator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Ning Yang , Yibo Liu , Shuo Chen , Meng Zhang , Haijun Zhang

In this paper, we consider the cellular Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where UAVs sense data for multiple tasks and transmit the data to the base station (BS). To quantify the "freshness" of the data at the BS, we bring in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

This paper characterizes and jointly optimizes Age of Information (AoI) and energy efficiency in heterogeneous correlated random access networks, where each sensor adopts a distinct transmission probability and its observations are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anshan Yuan , Xinghua Sun , Yayu Gao , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen

We study the optimal scheduling problem where n source nodes attempt to transmit updates over L shared wireless on/off fading channels to optimize their age performance under energy and age-violation tolerance constraints. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xujin Zhou , Irem Koprulu , Atilla Eryilmaz

In this paper, we study the intricate realm of digital twin synchronization and deployment in multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks, with the aim of optimizing and balancing the two performance metrics Age of Information (AoI) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yongna Guo , Yaru Fu , Yan Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Timeliness is an emerging requirement for many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In IoT networks, where a large-number of nodes are distributed, severe interference may incur during the transmission phase which causes age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xinghua Sun , Fangming Zhao , Howard H. Yang , Wen Zhan , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider a scenario where a base station (BS) attempts to collect fresh information from power constrained sensors over time-varying band-limited wireless channels. We characterize the data freshness through the recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Philippe Ciblat , Jian Song

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to gather information from ground sensor nodes (SN) and transfer the collected data to the depot. The information freshness is captured…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos

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

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a critical metric for network applications. Existing works mostly address optimization with homogeneous AoI requirements, which is different from practice. In this work, we optimize uplink scheduling for an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Qing-Shan Jia , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

In this paper, we study how to take samples at a data source for improving the freshness of received data samples at a remote receiver. We use non-linear functions of the age of information to measure data freshness, and provide a survey of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Likun Zhang , Jiahui Li , Jing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Zemin Sun , Changyuan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

Age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the last received update was generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a network. We consider AoI minimization problem for a network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Motivated by the need to ensure timely delivery of information (e.g., status updates) in the Internet-of-things (IoT) paradigm, this paper investigates the role of an Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile relay to minimize the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider the problem of minimizing age of information in general single-hop and multihop wireless networks. First, we formulate a way to convert AoI optimization problems into equivalent network stability problems. Then, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vishrant Tripathi , Eytan Modiano

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capabilities are envisioned to play a pivotal role in future wireless networks due to their enhanced flexibility and efficiency. However, jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yu Bai , Yifan Zhang , Boxuan Xie , Zheng Chang , Yanru Zhang , Riku Jantti , Zhu Han

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

A dual-hop status update system aided by energy harvesting (EH) relays with finite data and energy buffers is studied in this work. To achieve timely status updates, the best relays should be selected to minimize the average age of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Sin-Yu Huang , Kuang-Hao , Liu

In this paper, we consider a status updating system where the transmitter sends status updates of the signal it monitors to the destination through a rate-limited link. We consider the scenario where the status of the monitored signal only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Chenghao Deng , Jing Yang , Changyong Pan

Dense indoor WLANs increasingly rely on multiple access points (APs) operating over partially overlapping spectrum to support latency-sensitive applications. In such deployments, simultaneous transmissions across APs create co-channel and…

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