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This paper studies information freshness in information update systems operated with TDMA and FDMA. Information freshness is characterized by a recently introduced metric, age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Haoyuan Pan , Soung Chang Liew

Popular methods to quantify transmitted data quality are the Age of Information (AoI), the Query Age of Information (QAoI), and the Age of Incorrect Information (AoII). We consider these metrics in a point-to-point wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wanja de Sombre , Andrea Ortiz , Frank Aurzada , Anja Klein

Age-of-information (AoI) and transmission power are crucial performance metrics in low energy wireless networks, where information freshness is of paramount importance. This study examines a power-limited internet of things (IoT) network…

Information aging has gained prominence in characterizing communication protocols for timely remote estimation and control applications. This work proposes an Age of Information (AoI)-aware threshold-based dynamic frame slotted ALOHA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Ahmad Khonsari , Hina Tabassum

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

We analyze Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where nodes use a spatially adaptive random access scheme to send status updates to a central base station. We show that the set of achievable AoI in this setting is convex, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

While the notion of age of information (AoI) has recently emerged as an important concept for analyzing ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), the majority of the existing works have focused on the average AoI measure. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz , Chen-Feng Liu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for quantifying the freshness of information from the UE's perspective in a communication network. Recently, Kadota et al. [1] have proposed an index-type approximately optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Arunabh Srivastava , Abhishek Sinha , Krishna Jagannathan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm for real-time applications with intensive computational needs (e.g., autonomous driving), as it can reduce the processing delay. In this work, we focus on the timeliness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time multi-agent system involving $N$ cost-coupled networked rational agents solving a consensus problem and a central Base Station (BS), scheduling agent communications over a network. Due to a hard…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Tamer Başar

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

Traditional reinforcement learning (RL)-based learning approaches for wireless networks rely on expensive trial-and-error mechanisms and real-time feedback based on extensive environment interactions, which leads to low data efficiency and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Lingyi Wang , Rashed Shelim , Walid Saad , Naren Ramakrishnan

Inter-agent communication serves as an effective mechanism for enhancing performance in collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL) systems. However, the inherent communication latency in practical systems induces both action…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qian Zhang , Zhuo Sun , Yao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Jun Zhang

In the realm of emerging real-time networked applications such as cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a pivotal metric for evaluating timeliness. To meet the high computational demands, such as those in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Jiayu Pan , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

This paper considers minimizing the age-of-information (AoI) and transmit power consumption in a vehicular network, where a roadside unit (RSU) provides timely updates about a set of physical processes to vehicles. We consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 A. A. Habob , H. Tabassum , O. Waqar

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-decision transformer (D2T) architecture to optimize the beamforming strategies for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Jie Zhang , Jun Li , Zhe Wang , Yu Han , Long Shi , Bin Cao

In offline reinforcement learning, value overestimation caused by out-of-distribution (OOD) actions significantly limits policy performance. Recently, diffusion models have been leveraged for their strong distribution-matching capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yunchang Ma , Tenglong Liu , Yixing Lan , Xin Yin , Changxin Zhang , Xinglong Zhang , Xin Xu

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric that measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received information update. We consider the problem of AoI minimization for a network under general interference…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Rajat Talak , Igor Kadota , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

This paper studies efficient data management and timely information dissemination for real-time monitoring of an $N$-state Markov process, enabling accurate state estimation and reliable actuation decisions. First, we analyze the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Anthony Ephremides , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

As development Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) technology and demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increase, there is a growing need for real-time data and communication by vehicle users. Traditional request-based methods face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zheng Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Ke Xiong