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We consider a priority queueing system where a single processor serves k classes of packets that are generated randomly following Poisson processes. Our objective is to compute the expected Peak Age of Information (PAoI) under various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jin Xu , Natarajan Gautam

We consider a multi-source network with a common monitor, where fresh updates are generated at each source, following a Poisson process. At any time, at most one source can transmit its update to the monitor, and transmission time for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Kumar Saurav

We consider a scenario where a monitor is interested in being up to date with respect to the status of some system which is not directly accessible to this monitor. However, we assume a source node has access to the status and can send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Elie Najm , Rajai Nasser

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

This paper considers a multi-source real-time updating system in which an energy harvesting (EH)-powered transmitter node has multiple sources generating status updates about several physical processes. The status updates are then sent to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Age of information (AoI) is an effective performance metric measuring the freshness of information and is particularly suitable for applications involving status update. In this paper, using the age violation probability as the metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Kuan-Yu Lin , Yu-Chih Huang , Yu-Pin Hsu

We consider transmission of packets over queue-length sensitive unreliable links, where packets are randomly corrupted through a noisy channel whose transition probabilities are modulated by the queue-length. The goal is to characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Daewon Seo , Avhishek Chatterjee , Lav R. Varshney

We consider a status update system consisting of a sampler, a sink, and a controller located at the sink. The controller sends requests to the sampler to generate and transmit status updates. Packet transmissions from the controller to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jinxin Yang , Mohammad Moltafet , Hamid R. Sadjadpour

We examine multiple independent sources providing status updates to a monitor through simple queues. We formulate an Age of Information (AoI) timeliness metric and derive a general result for the AoI that is applicable to a wide variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Roy D. Yates , Sanjit K. Kaul

We study age of information (AoI) in a single-source dual-server status update system for the generate at will (GAW) scenario, consisting of an information source, dual servers, and a monitor. For this system, the method of stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Nail Akar , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we investigate scheduling policies that minimize the age of information in single-hop queueing systems. We propose a Last-Generated, First-Serve (LGFS) scheduling policy, in which the packet with the earliest generation time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Ness B. Shroff

Characterizing Age of Information (AoI) in status updating systems with general arrival and service processes has great significance considering that the interarrival and service time of updates can possibly be arbitrary in a real world.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Jixiang Zhang , Han Xu , Daming Cao , Yinfei Xu , Minghao Chen , Chengyu Lin

This paper is motivated by emerging edge computing applications in which generated data are pre-processed at the source and then transmitted to an edge server. In such a scenario, there is typically a tradeoff between the amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

In this paper, we consider a single-source multi-server generate-at-will discrete-time non-preemptive status update system where update packets are transmitted using {\em only one} of the available servers, according to a server selection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nail Akar , Ismail Cosandal , Sennur Ulukus

The performance of non-preemptive M/M/1 queueing system with two priority is analyzed. By using complementary variable method to make vector Markov process and analyzing the state-change equations of the queueing system, the generating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Zhao Guo-xi , Hu Qi-Zhou

Having timely and fresh knowledge about the current state of information sources is critical in a variety of applications. In particular, a status update may arrive at the destination later than its generation time due to processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang

We consider a token bucket mechanism serving a heterogeneous flow with a focus on backlog, delay and packet loss properties. Previous models have considered the case for fixed size packets, i.e. "one token per packet" with and M/D/1 view on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Henrik Schioler , John Leth , Shibarchi Majumder

Timely updates are critical for real-time monitoring and control applications powered by the Internet of Things (IoT). As these systems scale, they become increasingly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where malicious agents interfere with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Aresh Dadlani , Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar , Omid Ardakanian , Ioanis Nikolaidis

We consider the age-of-information in a multi-class $M/G/1$ queueing system, where each class generates packets containing status information. Age of information is a relatively new metric that measures the amount of time that elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Longbo Huang , Eytan Modiano

Having timely and fresh knowledge about the current state of information sources is critical in a variety of applications. In particular, a status update may arrive at the destination much later than its generation time due to processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Alireza Javani , Marwen Zorgui , Zhiying Wang