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We investigate the performance of a random access network consisting of source-destination dipoles. The source nodes transmit information packets to their destinations over a shared spectrum. All the transmitters in this network adhere to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Howard H. Yang , Nikolaos Pappas , Tony Q. S. Quek , Martin Haenggi

We optimize the Age of Information (AoI) in mobile networks using the age-threshold slotted ALOHA (TSA) protocol. The network comprises multiple source-destination pairs, where each source sends a sequence of status update packets to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Fangming Zhao , Nikolaos Pappas , Chuan Ma , Xinghua Sun , Tony Q. S. Quek , Howard H. Yang

With the rapid growth of real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the need for fresh information has surged. Age of Information (AoI) is a tailor-made metric to characterize the information freshness perceived by the devices. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jingzhou Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Satellite-based Internet of Things (S-IoT) faces a fundamental trilemma: propagation delay, dynamic fading, and bandwidth scarcity. While Layer-coded Hybrid ARQ (L-HARQ) enhances reliability, its backtracking decoding introduces age…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yuhua Zhao , Tiejun Lv , Ke Wang

Age-of-information (AoI) is a critical metric that quantifies the freshness of data in communication systems. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), data collected by resource-constrained devices often need to be transmitted to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ching-Chi Lin , Mario Günzel , Jian-Jia Chen

Links in practical systems, such as satellite--terrestrial integrated networks, exhibit distinct delay distributions, intermittent availability, and heterogeneous energy costs. These characteristics pose significant challenges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Adem Utku Atasayar , Aimin Li , Çağrı Arı , Elif Uysal

To achieve truly seamless global intelligent connectivity, non-terrestrial networks (NTN) mainly composed of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites and drones are recognized as important components of the future 6G network architecture.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zheng Guo , Qian Chen , Weixiao Meng

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation-enabled communication networks are expected to be an important part of many Internet of Things (IoT) deployments due to their unique advantage of providing seamless global coverage. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Sheng Chen , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , H. Vincent Poor

Information aging has gained prominence in characterizing communication protocols for timely remote estimation and control applications. This work proposes an Age of Information (AoI)-aware threshold-based dynamic frame slotted ALOHA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Ahmad Khonsari , Hina Tabassum

We propose a frame slotted ALOHA (FSA)-based protocol for a random access network where sources transmit status updates to their intended destinations. We evaluate the effect of such a protocol on the network's timeliness performance using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

Despite the widespread deployment of terrestrial networks, providing reliable communication services to remote areas and maintaining connectivity during emergencies remains challenging. Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations offer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zifan Lang , Guixia Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

In this paper, a dense Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is studied in which a large number of devices contend for transmitting timely status packets to their corresponding receivers over wireless noisy channels, using a carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

We consider a star-topology wireless network for status update where a central node collects status data from a large number of distributed machine-type terminals that share a wireless medium. The Age of Information (AoI) minimization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Jingzhou Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

This paper studies low-power random access protocols for timely status update systems with information freshness requirements, measured by age of information (AoI). In an extensive network, a fundamental challenge is scheduling a large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tse-Tin Chan , Jian Feng , Haoyuan Pan

Many real-time applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) need to deal with correlated information generated by multiple sensors. The design of efficient status update strategies that minimize the Age of Correlated Information (AoCI) is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chao Xu , Xinyan Zhang , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Nikolaos Pappas , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we introduce a new data freshness metric, relative Age of Information (rAoI), and examine it in a single server system with various packet management schemes. The (classical) AoI metric was introduced to measure the staleness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Peng Zou , Omur Ozel , Suresh Subramaniam

The effective operation of time-critical Internet of things (IoT) applications requires real-time reporting of fresh status information of underlying physical processes. In this paper, a real-time IoT monitoring system is considered, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness. AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We consider the problem of minimizing average and peak AoI in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rajat Talak , Sertac Karaman , Eytan Modiano

Recently, random access protocols have acquired a new wave of interest, not only from the satellite communication community, but also from researchers active in fields like Internet of Things and machine-to-machine. Asynchronous (slot- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Federico Clazzer , Christian Kissling , Mario Marchese

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