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Enabling real-time communication in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks is crucial to support autonomous, self-organized and re-configurable industrial automation for Industry 4.0 and the forthcoming Industry 5.0. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hossam Farag , Dejan Vukobratovic , Andrea Munari , Cedomir Stefanovic

Lots of real-time applications over Internet of things (IoT)-based status update systems have imperative demands on information freshness, which is usually evaluated by age of information (AoI). Compared to the average AoI and peak AoI…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tianci Zhang , Shutong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Yunjian Jia , Min Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

Energy-harvesting (EH) Internet of Things (IoT) devices operate under intermittent energy availability, which disrupts task execution and makes energy-intensive over-the-air (OTA) updates particularly challenging. Conventional OTA update…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wei Wei , Jingye Xu , Sahidul Islam , Dakai Zhu , Chen Pan , Mimi Xie

We consider a novel intermittent status updating model where an energy harvesting node with an intermittent energy source performs status updating to a receiver through non-preemptive sensing and transmission operations. Each operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Omur Ozel

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

We investigate the age-limited capacity of the Gaussian many channel with total $N$ users, out of which a random subset of $K_{a}$ users are active in any transmission period, and a large-scale antenna array at the base station (BS). In an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bamelak Tadele , Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

We investigate an internet-of-things system where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a common receiver using the irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol. Energy shortages in these devices may lead to transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Diep N. Nguyen , Thai-Mai Dinh Thi

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

Timely status updating is crucial for future applications that involve remote monitoring and control, such as autonomous driving and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

In this paper, we investigate an outdoor and indoor wireless communication network with the assistance of a novel relay-aided double-sided reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). A scheduling problem is considered at the outdoor access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-09 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Chadi Assi , Zhongpei Zhang

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Machine Type Communication (MTC) has become an important use case of the Fifth Generation (5G) communication systems. Since MTC devices are mostly disconnected from Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Junseok Kim , Seongwon Kim , T. Taleb , Sunghyun Choi

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi

We propose and evaluate the performance of a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) dual-hop multiple relay (MR) network from an information freshness perspective using the Age of Information (AoI) metric. More specifically, we consider an…

This paper characterizes the structure of the Age of Information (AoI)-optimal policy in wireless powered communication systems while accounting for the time and energy costs of generating status updates at the source nodes. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

Space-ground communication systems are important in providing ubiquitous services in a large area. This paper considers the fairness designs under a load-balancing framework with heterogeneous receivers comprising access points (APs) and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Trinh Van Chien , Ngo Tran Anh Thu , Nguyen Hoang Lam , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low-latency cyberphysical systems and applications in which sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Roy D. Yates , Yin Sun , D. Richard Brown , Sanjit K. Kaul , Eytan Modiano , Sennur Ulukus

Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the key features of the next generation wireless networks, where timely delivery of status update packets is essential for many real-time IoT applications. To provide users with context-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chao Xu , Howard H. Yang , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor observes a phenomena of interest with exponentially distributed intervals and delivers the updates to a monitor with the First-come-First-served (FCFS) policy. At the monitor,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Zhiwei Bao , Yunquan Dong , Zhengchuan Chen , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Next-generation internet-of-things (IoT) networks require extremely low latency, complexity, and collision probability. We introduce the novel partial-information multiple access (PIMA) scheme, a semi-grant-free (GF) coordinated random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Alberto Rech , Stefano Tomasin , Lorenzo Vangelista , Cristina Costa