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The age of information metric fails to correctly describe the intrinsic semantics of a status update. In an intelligent reflecting surface-aided cooperative relay communication system, we propose the age of semantics (AoS) for measuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Shiwen Mao , Celimuge Wu , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis

It has been well established that wireless network coding can significantly improve the efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks. However, in a stochastic environment some of the packets might not have coding pairs, which limits the number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yu-Pin Hsu , Navid Abedini , Natarajan Gautam , Alex Sprintson , Srinivas Shakkottai

In this work, we study the problem of real-time tracking and reconstruction of an information source with the purpose of actuation. A device monitors an $N$-state Markov process and transmits status updates to a receiver over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

A two-hop energy harvesting communication network is considered, in which measurement updates are transmitted by a source to a destination through an intermediate relay. Updates are to be sent in a timely fashion that minimizes the age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ahmed Arafa , Sennur Ulukus

This article investigates the problem of dynamic spectrum access for canonical wireless networks, in which the channel states are time-varying. In the most existing work, the commonly used optimization objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Yuhua Xu , Jinlong Wang , Qihui Wu , Jianchao Zheng , Liang Shen , Alagan Anpalagan

In distributed model predictive control (MPC), the control input at each sampling time is computed by solving a large-scale optimal control problem (OCP) over a finite horizon using distributed algorithms. Typically, such algorithms require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Giuseppe Belgioioso , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Nicolas Pelzmann , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

Transmission over wireless fading channels under quality of service (QoS) constraints is studied when only the receiver has channel side information. Being unaware of the channel conditions, transmitter is assumed to send the information at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-10 Deli Qiao , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In deadline-constrained data aggregation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the imposed sink deadline along with the interference constraint hinders participation of all sensor nodes in data aggregation. Thus, exploiting the wisdom of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Bahram Alinia , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Ahmad Khonsari

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haosheng He , Jianpeng Qi , Chao Liu , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

We investigate the probability that the peak age of information in a point-to-point communication system operating over a multiantenna wireless fading channel exceeds a predetermined value. The packets are scheduled according to a last-come…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Johan Östman , Rahul Devassy , Giuseppe Durisi , Elif Uysal

Reliability, longevity, availability, and deadline guarantees are the four most important metrics to measure the QoS of long-running safety-critical real-time applications. Software aging is one of the major factors that impact the safety…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chunhui Guo , Hao Wu , Xiayu Hua , Shangping Ren , Jerzy Nogiec

This paper investigates a multiuser scheduling problem within an uplink multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) status update network, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna devices. The presence of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

Enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in dynamic and unpredictable environments requires adaptive communication and energy harvesting strategies. We propose a novel adaptive control strategy for WSNs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Hossein Mohammadi Firouzjaei , Rafaela Scaciota , Sumudu Samarakoon

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

We propose and experimentally evaluate a novel method that dynamically changes the contention window of access points based on system load to improve performance in a dense Wi-Fi deployment. A key feature is that no MAC protocol changes,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Thomas Sandholm , Bernardo Huberman , Belal Hamzeh , Scott Clearwater

Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

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

Motivated by the inherent value of packets arising in many cyber-physical applications (e.g., due to precision of the information content or an alarm message), we consider status update systems with update packets carrying values as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

The future wireless networks envision ultra-reliable communication with efficient use of the limited wireless channel resources. Closed-loop repetition protocols where retransmission of a packet is enabled using a feedback channel has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Saeed R. Khosravirad , Harish Viswanathan

Optimization of information freshness in wireless networks has usually been performed based on queueing analysis that captures only the temporal traffic dynamics associated with the transmitters and receivers. However, the effect of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Howard H. Yang , Ahmed Arafa , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor