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This paper investigates the average age of information (AoI) minimization in status update systems in which the update packets are transmitted with fixed rate. It is assumed that the source avoids queue-induced delay by generating and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Deli Qiao , M. Cenk Gursoy

The latest WiFi standard, IEEE 802.11ax (WiFi 6), introduces a novel uplink random access mechanism called uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based random access (UORA). While existing work has evaluated the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jingwei Liu , Qian Wang , He Chen

The scenario of an uplink two-user non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system is analytically studied when it operates in the short packet transmission regime. The considered users support mobility and each is equipped with…

Ensuring timely and semantically accurate information delivery is critical in real-time wireless systems. While Age of Information (AoI) quantifies temporal freshness, Version Age of Information (VAoI) captures semantic staleness by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haoyuan Pan , Sizhao Chen , Zhaorui Wang , Tse-Tin Chan

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enables power-domain multiplexing via successive interference cancellation (SIC) and has been viewed as a promising technology for 5G communication. The full benefit of NOMA depends on resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Jianyue Zhu , Jiaheng Wang , Yongming Huang , Shiwen He , Xiaohu You , Luxi Yang

By combining the concepts of superposition coding at the transmitter(s) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver(s), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently emerged as a promising multiple access technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Hina Tabassum , Md Shipon Ali , Ekram Hossain , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Dong In Kim

Being able to accommodate multiple simultaneous transmissions on a single channel, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) appears as an attractive solution to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) that faces a massive number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Wenjuan Yu , Chuan Heng Foh , Atta ul Quddus , Yuanwei Liu , Rahim Tafazolli

This work introduces downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into short-packet communications. NOMA has great potential to improve fairness and spectral efficiency with respect to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) for low-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Xiaofang Sun , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

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

This paper introduces a general framework to analyze and optimize age-of-information (AoI) in CSMA protocols for distributed uplink transmissions. The proposed framework combines two theoretical approaches. First, it employs second-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Siqi Fan , I-Hong Hou

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as a promising technology for improving the spectral efficiency (SE) in 5G. In this correspondence, we study the benefit of NOMA in enhancing energy efficiency (EE) for a multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Yi Zhang , Hui-Ming Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Qian Yang

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) as well as other orthogonal multiple access techniques fail to achieve the system capacity limit in the uplink due to the exclusivity in resource allocation. This issue is more prominent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Mohammed Al-Imari , Pei Xiao , Muhammad Ali Imran , Rahim Tafazolli

Age of information (AoI) is a powerful metric to evaluate the freshness of information, where minimization of average statistics, such as the average AoI and average peak AoI, currently prevails in guiding freshness optimization for related…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yuquan Xiao , Qinghe Du

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

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a potential candidate to further enhance the spectrum utilization efficiency in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) standards. However, there has been little attention on the quantification of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vaibhav Kumar , Barry Cardiff , Shankar Prakriya , Mark F. Flanagan

We consider the problem of real-time remote monitoring of a two-state Markov process, where a sensor observes the state of the source and makes a decision on whether to transmit the status updates over an unreliable channel or not. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehrdad Salimnejad , Marios Kountouris , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

Motivated by cooperative distributed networks in which users dynamically alternate between transmit and receive modes under half-duplex constraints, this paper studies the Age of Information (AoI) in a distributed multi-user network using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peng Zou , Ali Maatouk , Egemen Erbayat , Suresh Subramaniam

The aim of this paper is to characterize the impact of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) on the age of information (AoI) of grant-free transmission. In particular, a low-complexity form of NOMA, termed NOMA-assisted random access, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Z. Ding , R. Schober , H. V. Poor

User pairing in Non-Orthogonal Multiple-Access (NOMA) uplink based on channel state information is investigated considering some predefined power allocation schemes. The base station divides the set of users into disjunct pairs and assigns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Mohammad A. Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller

In this work, we address the problem of finding globally optimal power allocation strategies to maximize the users sum-rate (SR) as well as system energy efficiency (EE) in the downlink of single-cell multicarrier non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Sepehr Rezvani , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Roghayeh Joda , Halim Yanikomeroglu