Measuring age of information on real-life connections

2019-04-01
Beytur, Hasan Burhan
Baghaee, Sajjad
Uysal, Elif
Age of Information (AoI) is a relatively new metric to measure freshness of networked application such as real-time monitoring of status updates or control. The AoI metric is discussed in the literature mainly in a theoretical way. In this work, we want to point out the issues related to the measuring AoI-related values, such as synchronization and calculation of the values. We discussed the effect of synchronization error in the measurement and a solution for calculating an estimate of average AoI without any synchronization.

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Citation Formats
H. B. Beytur, S. Baghaee, and E. Uysal, “Measuring age of information on real-life connections,” 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47554.