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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

We study the problem of minimizing the time-average expected Age of Information for status updates sent by an energy-harvesting source with a finite-capacity battery. In prior literature, optimal policies were observed to have a threshold…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Baran Tan Bacinoglu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu , Volkan Mutlu

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

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

In this work, we derive optimal transmission policies in an energy harvesting status update system. The system monitors a stochastic process which can be either in a normal or in an alarm state of operation. We capture the freshness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-10 George Stamatakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

We consider the scenario where a sender periodically sends a batch of data to a receiver over a multi-hop network, possibly using multiple paths. Our objective is to minimize peak/average Age-of-Information (AoI) subject to throughput…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Qingyu Liu , Haibo Zeng , Minghua Chen

A new timeliness metric, called Age-of-Information (AoI), has recently attracted a lot of research interests for real-time applications with information updates. It has been extensively studied for various queueing models based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhongdong Liu , Yu Sang , Bin Li , Bo Ji

In a typical Internet of Things (IoT) application where a central controller collects status updates from multiple terminals, e.g., sensors and monitors, through a wireless multiaccess uplink, an important problem is how to attain timely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We consider a multi-source status update system, where each source generates status update packets according to a Poisson process which are then served according to a generally distributed service time. For this multi-source M/G/1/1…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat

This paper considers a cooperative status update system with a source aiming to send randomly generated status updates to a designated destination as timely as possible with the help of a relay. We adopt a recently proposed concept, Age of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Bohai Li , He Chen , Yong Zhou , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we study how to collect fresh data in time-varying networks with power constrained users. We measure data freshness from the perspective of the central controller by using the metric Age of Information, namely the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Haoyue Tang , Jintao Wang , Linqi Song , Jian Song

Age-of-information (AoI) is a newly proposed performance metric of information freshness. It differs from the traditional delay metric, because it is destination centric and measures the time that elapsed since the last received fresh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

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

In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hongyi He , Haoyue Tang , Jiayu Pan , Jintao Wang , Jian Song , Leandros Tassiulas

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

Age-of-information (AoI) is a metric quantifying information freshness at the receiver. Since AoI combines packet generation frequency, packet loss, and delay into a single metric, it has received a lot of research attention as an interface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Onur Ayan , Mikhail Vilgelm , Wolfgang Kellerer

We study a pull-based status update communication model where a source node submits update packets to a channel with random transmission delay, at times requested by a remote destination node. The objective is to minimize the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 M. Emrullah Ildiz , Orhan T. Yavascan , Elif Uysal , O. Tugberk Kartal

In this work, we consider the problem of jointly minimizing the average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information (AoI) constraints. Errors in the transmission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Marian Codreanu , Anthony Ephremides , Nikolaos Pappas

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