Age of Information
Foundations and Applications

A comprehensive treatment of Age of Information, this cutting-edge text includes detailed exposition and real-world applications.

Nikolaos Pappas (Edited by), Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid (Edited by), Bo Zhou (Edited by), Walid Saad (Edited by), Harpreet S. Dhillon (Edited by)

9781108837873, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 February 2023

520 pages
25 x 17.5 x 3.2 cm, 1.02 kg

'With the inception of 5G and its projected use in various real-time applications there has been an increased interest in the low-latency performance of wireless systems. … During the last decade the notion of Age of Information (AoI), information freshness, and its derivatives have sparked interest into analysis and design of communication systems with general timing requirements. This book provides a timely and fresh view on the area of AoI, featuring a highly competent Editorial team and excellent contributions from well-established researchers. Various important aspects are covered, ranging from analytical treatment and stochastic models for AoI, scheduling and transmission policies, interplay with machine learning techniques, as well as the very recent aspects of data economics and valuation. Beyond 5G and towards 6G systems, the relevance of timing performance in wireless communication … will only continue to grow, rendering this book into a valuable and reliable reference for researchers and engineers.' Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark

At the forefront of cutting-edge technologies, this text provides a comprehensive treatment of a crucial network performance metric, ushering in new opportunities for rethinking the whole design of communication systems. Detailed exposition of the communication and network theoretic foundations of Age of Information (AoI) gives the reader a solid background, and discussion of the implications on signal processing and control theory shed light on the important potential of recent research. The text includes extensive real-world applications of this vital metric, including caching, the Internet of Things (IoT), and energy harvesting networks. The far-reaching applications of AoI include networked monitoring systems, cyber-physical systems such as the IoT, and information-oriented systems and data analytics applications ranging from the stock market to social networks. The future of this exciting subject in 5G communication systems and beyond make this a vital resource for graduate students, researchers and professionals.

1. The probability distribution of the age of information Yoshiaki Inoue, Tetsuya Takine and Toshiyuki Tanaka
2. On the distribution of AoI Jaya Champati and James Gross
3. Multi-source queueing models Sanjit K. Kaul and Roy D. Yates
4. Controlling the age of information: buffer size, deadlines and packet management Sastry Kompella and Clement Kam
5. Timely status updating via packet management in multi-source systems Mohammad Moltafet, Markus Leinonen and Marian Codreanu
6. Age of information in source coding Melih Bastopcu, Baturalp Buyukates and Sennur Ulukus
7. Sample and scheduling for minimizing age of information of multiple sources Ahmed M. Bedewy, Yin Sun, Sastry Kompella and Ness Shroff
8. Age-efficient scheduling in communication networks Bin Li, Bo Ji and Atilla Eryilmaz
9. AoI-driven transmission scheduling in wireless networks Qing He, Di Yuan, György Dán and Anthony Ephremides
10. Age of information and remote estimation Tasmeen Zaman Ornee and Yin Sun
11. Networked control subject to random processing delay Touraj Soleymani, John S. Baras and Karl Henrik Johansson
12. Age of information in practice Elif Uysal, Onur Kaya, Saijad Baghaee and Hasan Burhan Beytur
13. Reinforcement learning for minimizing age of information over wireless links Elif Tugce Ceran, Deniz Gündüz and András György
14. Information freshness in large-scale wireless networks: a stochastic geometry approach Howard H. Yang and Tony S. Quek
15. Age of channel state information Shahab Farazi, Andrew G. Klein and Donald Richard Brown III
16. Transmission preemption for information freshness optimization Songtao Feng, Boyu Wang, Chenghao Deng and Jing Yang
17. Economics of fresh data trading Meng Zhang, Ahmed Arafa, Jianwei Huang and H. Vincent Poor
18. UAV-assisted status updates Juan Liu, Xijun Wang, Bo Bai and Huaiyu Dai
References, Index.

Subject Areas: Distributed systems [UTR], Computer networking & communications [UT], Computing & information technology [U]