The 2nd Age of Information Workshop

April 29, 2019 at Paris, France

The freshness of information is of fundamental importance in information-update and data analytics applications (e.g., crowdsourcing, financial trading, social networks, and online learning), as well as networked monitoring and control systems (e.g., sensor networks, airplane/vehicular control, robotics networks, Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems). The Age of Information is a new concept that can serve as a performance metric for characterizing the freshness of information, as a means for fundamental research, and as a tool in numerous applications. Recent research advances on the Age of Information suggest that many well-known design principles (e.g., for providing high throughput and low delay) that lead to the success of traditional data networks are inappropriate and need to be re-examined for enhancing information freshness in the rapidly emerging real-time applications.

The Second Age of Information Workshop (AoI Workshop) will provide a forum where researchers and technical experts can share the latest research insights, and present key and emerging results on the Age of Information, and identify new challenges and opportunities. The AoI Workshop will be held in Paris, France on April 29, 2019 in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM Conference 2019.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

The AoI Workshop calls for original and unpublished papers. Each paper can have at most 6 pages + 2 extra pages (the additional page charge fee is $100 per extra page). The reviews will be single blind. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper). Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files through the EDAS website https://edas.info/N25573.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline (extended): 6 January 2019 18 January 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 12 February 2019 20 February 2019
Camera Ready: 9 March 2019

Call For Papers

Committee

The 2nd Age of Information Workshop (AoI Workshop 2019)

Monday, April 29, 2019 ● 08:00 – 18:00 ● Room: Scene C

08:00–08:10
Opening Session
Chairs: Yin Sun, Bo Bai, and Anthony Ephremides

08:10–10:00
Session 1: Information Updates for Monitoring and Control
Chair: Elif Uysal (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

On the Benefits of Waiting in Status Update Systems
Peng Zou, Omur Ozel, and Suresh Subramaniam (George Washington University, USA)

Learning to Sample a Signal through an Unknown System for Minimum AoI
Clement Kam, Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA), and Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, USA)

AoI Perspective on the Accuracy of Monitoring Systems for Continuous-Time Markovian Sources
Yoshiaki Inoue and Tetsuya Takine (Osaka University, Japan)

AoI-Penalty Minimization for Networked Control Systems with Packet Loss
Markus Klügel (Airbus, Germany), Mohammad H. Mamduhi (Technical University of Munich, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Sandra Hirche, and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Performance Characterization Using AoI in a Single-loop Networked Control System
Jaya Prakash Champati (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), Mohammad H. Mamduhi (Technical University of Munich, Germany & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Karl H. Johansson, and James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

10:00–10:30
Coffee Break

10:30–12:30
Session 2: Poster Session: Recent Results on Age of Information
Chair: Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupélec, France)

Forever Young: Aging Control For Smartphones in Hybrid Networks
Eitan Altman (INRIA, France), Rachid El-Azouzi (University of Avignon, France), Daniel S. Menasché (UFRJ, Brazil), and Yuedong Xu (Fudan University, China)

Index-based Update Policy for Minimizing Information Mismatch with Markovian Sources
Sunjung Kang and Changhee Joo (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Can We Achieve Fresh Information with Selfish Users in Mobile Crowd-Learning?
Bin Li (University of Rhode Island, USA) and Jia Liu (Iowa State University, USA)

The Power of Waiting for More than One Response in Minimizing the Age-of-Information
Yu Sang (Temple University, USA), Bin Li (University of Rhode Island, USA), and Bo Ji (Temple University, USA)

Towards AoI-aware Smart IoT Systems
Sajjad Baghaee, Hasan B. Beytur, and Elif Uysal (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Clustered Acknowledgement Policy (CAP) Delivering Accurate and Fresh Information
Basel Barakat (University of Greenwich, UK), Simeon Keates (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), Ian Wassell (University of Cambridge, UK), and Kamran Arshad (Ajman University, UAE)

Dynamic Pricing for Controlling Age of Information
Lingjie Duan and Xuehe Wang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Minimizing Age-of-Information with Throughput Requirements in Multi-Path Network Communication
Qingyu Liu, Haibo Zeng (Virginia Tech, USA), and Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

From the Age of Information to Sampling Theory
Tasmeen Zaman Ornee and Yin Sun (Auburn University, USA)

12:30–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:30
Session 3: Age of Information and Energy Efficiency
Chair: Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Reinforcement Learning to Minimize Age of Information with an Energy Harvesting Sensor with HARQ and Sensing Cost
Elif Tuğçe Ceran, Deniz Gündüz, and András György (Imperial College London, UK)

Age of Information in a Multiple Access Channel with Heterogeneous Traffic and an Energy Harvesting Node
Zheng Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Emil Björnson, and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

On Emptying a Wireless Network with Minimum-Energy Under Age Constraints
Qing He, György Dán, and Viktoria Fodor (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Age-aware Scheduling for Asynchronous Arriving Jobs in Edge Applications
Jing Zhong, Wuyang Zhang, Roy D. Yates, Andrey Garnaev, and Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA)

15:30–16:00
Coffee Break

16:00-18:00
Session 4: Age of Information in Wireless Networks
Chair: Bo Ji (Temple University)

Maintaining Information Freshness under Jamming
Andrey Garnaev, Wuyang Zhang, Jing Zhong, and Roy D. Yates (Rutgers University, USA)

Fundamental Bounds on the Age of Information in General Multi-Hop Interference Networks
Shahab Farazi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA), Andrew G. Klein (Western Washington University, USA), and D. Richard Brown III (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Minimizing The Age of Information: NOMA or OMA?
Ali Maatouk, Mohamad Assaad (CentraleSupélec, France), and Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, USA)

Peak-Age Violation Guarantees for the Transmission of Short Packets over Fading Channels
Johan Östman, Rahul Devassy, Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), and Elif Uysal (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Optimizing Information Freshness in Broadcast Network with Unreliable Links and Random Arrivals: An Approximate Index Policy
Jingzhou Sun, Zhiyuan Jiang, Sheng Zhou, and Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China)