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We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor delivers updates to a monitor with exponential service time and first-come-first-served (FCFS) discipline. We investigate the freshness of the received updates and propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Shanyun Liu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled Ben Letaief

As an emerging metric for the timeliness of information delivery, Age-of-Information (AoI) raises a special interest in the research area of tolerance-critical communications, wherein sufficiently short blocklength is usually adopted as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yao Zhu , Hans D. Schotten

Remote tracking systems play a critical role in applications such as IoT, monitoring, surveillance and healthcare. In such systems, maintaining both real-time state awareness (for online decision making) and accurate reconstruction of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Sunjung Kang , Vishrant Tripathi , Christopher G. Brinton

In this work, we investigate information freshness in a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. Initially, we study the properties of a sample path of the age of information (AoI) process at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

Modern sensing and monitoring applications typically consist of sources transmitting updates of different sizes, ranging from a few bytes (position, temperature, etc.) to multiple megabytes (images, video frames, LIDAR point scans, etc.).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Zhuoyi Zhao , Vishrant Tripathi , Igor Kadota

Flanking traditional metrics such as throughput and reliability, age of information (AoI) is emerging as a fundamental tool to capture the performance of IoT systems. In this context, we focus on a setup in which a large number of nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Andrea Munari , Alexey Frolov

A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source's data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Christopher Daniel , Ahmed Arafa

In this paper, the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is studied. In the considered model, each IoT device monitors a physical process that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Many systems require frequent and regular updates of a certain information. These updates have to be transferred regularly from the source to the destination. We consider scenarios in which an old packet becomes completely obsolete, in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Veeraruna Kavitha , Eitan Altman , Indrajit Saha

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

As one of the pivotal enablers for 6G, satellite-terrestrial integrated networks have emerged as a solution to provide extensive connectivity and comprehensive 3D coverage across the spatial-aerial-terrestrial domains to cater to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a wireless uplink network consisting of multiple end devices and an access point (AP). Each device monitors a physical process with stochastic arrival of status updates and sends these updates to the AP over a shared channel.…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jingwei Liu , Rui Zhang , Aoyu Gong , He Chen

We consider a system consisting of $N$ source nodes communicating with a common receiver. Each source node has a buffer of infinite capacity to store incoming bursty traffic in the form of status updates transmitted in packets, which should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Antzela Kosta , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides , Vangelis Angelakis

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

In this work, we study age-optimal scheduling with stability constraints in a multiple access channel with two heterogeneous source nodes transmitting to a common destination. The first node is connected to a power grid and it has randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

As an evolving successor to the mobile Internet, the extended reality (XR) devices can generate a fully digital immersive environment similar to the real world, integrating integrating virtual and real-world elements. However, in addition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jianrui Chen , Jingjing Wang , Chunxiao Jiang , Jiaxing Wang

In this paper, we study age of information (AoI) optimization for status updating in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a discrete-time architecture in which a base station interacts with a physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Marco Zanni , Mohamad Assaad , Touraj Soleymani

The study of optimal preemption policies for status update systems has been a recurring topic in the age of information (AoI) literature, where threshold-based structures have been shown to be optimal under a generate-at-will update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

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

The timely sharing of raw sensing information in the vehicular networks (VNETs) is essential to safety. In order to improve the freshness of sensing information, joint scheduling of multi-dimensional resources such as communication and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ning Jiang , Shi Yan , Zhuohan Liu , Chunjing Hu , Mugen Peng