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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

Age of information (AoI), a notion that measures the information freshness, is an essential performance measure for time-critical applications in Internet of Things (IoT). With the surge of computing resources at the IoT devices, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xijun Wang , Minghao Fang , Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xinghua Sun , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this work, we study the freshness and significance of information in an IoT status update system in which an Energy Harvesting (EH) device samples an information source and forwards update packets to a destination node via a direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Erfan Delfani , Nikolaos Pappas

Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is a newly introduced performance metric that considers communication goals. Therefore, comparing with traditional performance metrics and the recently introduced metric - Age of Information (AoI), AoII…

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

In real-time status update services for the Internet of Things (IoT), the timely dissemination of information requiring timely updates is crucial to maintaining its relevance. Failing to keep up with these updates results in outdated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Seifu Birhanu Tadele , Binayak Kar , Frezer Guteta Wakgra , Asif Uddin Khan

The Age of Information (AoI) is an end-to-end metric frequently used to understand how "fresh" the information about a remote system is. In this paper, we present an experimental study of the relationship between AoI and the energy spent by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Federico Cristofani , Valerio Luconi , Alessio Vecchio

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

In this letter, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated. To quantify the freshness of the data packets at the information receiver, the age of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Zhongpei Zhang

The Age of Information (AoI) has recently gained recognition as a critical quality-of-service (QoS) metric for quantifying the freshness of status updates, playing a crucial role in supporting massive ultra-reliable and low-latency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

This paper considers a cognitive radio-based IoT monitoring system, consisting of an IoT device that aims to update its measurement to a destination using cognitive radio technique. Specifically, the IoT device as a secondary user (SIoT),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Qian Wang , He Chen , Yifan Gu , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

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

Age of Information (AoI) is a newly appeared concept and metric to characterize the freshness of data. In this work, we study the delay and AoI in a multiple access channel (MAC) with two source nodes transmitting different types of data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We propose a variant of the Age of Information (AoI) metric called Channel-Aware Age of Information (CA-AoI). Unlike AoI, CA-AoI takes into account the channel conditions between the source and the intended destination to compute the "age"…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Bhishma Dedhia , Sharayu Moharir

The Age-of-Information (AoI) metric has been widely studied in the theoretical communication networks and queuing systems literature. However, experimental evaluation of its applicability to complex real-world time-sensitive systems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota , Ezra Tal , Muhammad Shahir Rahman , Alexander Warren , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Age-of-information (AoI) is a novel metric that measures the freshness of information in status update scenarios. It is essential for real-time applications to transmit status update packets to the destination node as timely as possible.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qiaobin Kuang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen , Xiao Ma

As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale and device heterogeneity grows, multimodal data have become ubiquitous. Meanwhile, evaluating the freshness of multimodal data is essential, as stale updates would delay task execution, degrade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ying Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Chao Yang , Kandaraj Piamrat , Stephan Sigg , Zheng Changr , Yusheng Ji

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

In many emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the freshness of the is an important design criterion. Age of Information (AoI) quantifies the freshness of the received information or status update. This work considers a setup of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Eslam Eldeeb , Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana , Dian Echevarría Pérez , Mohammad Shehab , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Hirley Alves

Timely message delivery is a key enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems to support wide range of context-dependent applications. Conventional time-related metrics (e.g. delay and jitter) fails to characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Gerhard Bauch