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We consider a scenario where multiple users, powered by energy harvesting, send version updates over a fading multiple access channel (MAC) to an access point (AP). Version updates having random importance weights arrive at a user according…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Gangadhar Karevvanavar , Rajshekhar V Bhat

Wireless systems comprised of rechargeable nodes have a significantly prolonged lifetime and are sustainable. A distinct characteristic of these systems is the fact that the nodes can harvest energy throughout the duration in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Omur Ozel , Kaya Tutuncuoglu , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) via a shared, error-free channel with limited bandwidth. The status updates arrive at each node randomly. We use the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yuqiao He , Yuchao Chen , Jintao Wang , Jian Song

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

A sensor node that is sending measurement updates regarding some physical phenomenon to a destination is considered. The sensor relies on energy harvested from nature to transmit its updates, and is equipped with a finite $B$-sized battery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a time-slotted status update system with an error-free preemptive queue. The goal of the sampler-scheduler pair is to minimize the age of information at the monitor by sampling and transmitting the freshly sampled update packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Subhankar Banerjee , Sennur Ulukus

This paper investigates the age of information (AoI) for a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) enabled network, where a sensor first scavenges energy from a wireless power station and then transmits the collected status update to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yang Lu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief

We investigate an energy-harvesting wireless sensor transmitting latency-sensitive data over a fading channel. The sensor injects captured data packets into its transmission queue and relies on ambient energy harvested from the environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhilesh Sharma , Nicholas Mastronarde , Jacob Chakareski

A status updating system is considered in which data from multiple sources are sampled by an energy harvesting sensor and transmitted to a remote destination through an erasure channel. The goal is to deliver status updates of all sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ahmed Arafa , Jing Yang , Sennur Ulukus , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a new measure for the freshness of information, which uses the mutual information between the real-time source value and the delivered samples at the receiver to quantify the freshness of the information contained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

Information freshness is crucial for time-critical IoT applications, e.g., monitoring and control systems. We consider an IoT status update system with multiple users, multiple energy harvesting sensors, and a wireless edge node. The users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Mohammad Hatami , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

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

A status updating communication system is examined, in which a transmitter communicates with a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to realize timely delivery of fresh data over time, which is assessed by an age-of-information (AoI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ahmed Arafa , Karim Banawan , Karim G. Seddik , H. Vincent Poor

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

With the rise of critical machine-to-machine applications, next generation wireless communication systems must be designed with strict constraints on the latency and reliability. A key question in this context relates to channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Sebastian Schiessl , Hussein Al-Zubaidy , Mikael Skoglund , James Gross

Age of information (AoI) measures information freshness at the receiver. AoI may provide insights into quality of service in communication systems. For this reason, it has been used as a cross-layer metric for wireless communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

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

Wireless communications for status update are becoming increasingly important, especially for machine-type control applications. Existing work has been mainly focused on Age of Information (AoI) optimizations. In this paper, a status-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhiyuan Jiang , Zixu Cao , Siyu Fu , Fei Peng , Shan Cao , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

We consider an energy harvesting source equipped with a finite battery, which needs to send timely status updates to a remote destination. The timeliness of status updates is measured by a non-decreasing penalty function of the Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal , Volkan Mutlu

Data collection in an IoT environment requires simple and effective communication solutions to address resource constraints, ensure network efficiency, while achieving scalability. Efficiency is evaluated based on the timeliness of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Asmad Bin Abdul Razzaque , Andrea Baiocchi