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most citedOptimum Transmission Policies for Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks Powered By a Mobile Control Center

41 citations · 60 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.IT2026

Age of Information under Source-Aware Truncated ARQ in Multi-Source Wireless Status Updating

Tianci Zhang, Aobo Liu, Zhengchuan Chen +4

This paper studies information timeliness in multi-source wireless Internet of Things (IoT) status updating systems under a truncated Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We pr…

cs.IT2025

Absorbing Markov Chain-Based Analysis of Age of Information in Discrete-Time Dual-Queue Systems

Yifan Feng, Nail Akar, Zhengchuan Chen +1

Status update systems require the timely collection of sensing information for which deploying multiple sensors/servers to obtain diversity gains is considered as a promising solut…

cs.IT2024

Analysis of Age of Information for A Discrete-Time hybrid Dual-Queue System

Zhengchuan Chen, Yi Qu, Nikolaos Pappas +3

Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end pose…

cs.IT2024

Timeliness of Status Update System: The Effect of Parallel Transmission Using Heterogeneous Updating Devices

Zhengchuan Chen, Kang Lang, Nikolaos Pappas +4

Timely status updating is the premise of emerging interaction-based applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Using redundant devices to update the status of interest is a prom…

cs.IT2023

Age of Information in a Multisource Ber/Geo/1/1 Preemptive Queueing System

Tianci Zhang, Zhengchuan Chen

This work studies the information freshness of the vehicle-to-infrastructure status updating in Internet of vehicles, which is modeled as a multi-source Ber/Geo/1/1 preemptive queu…

cs.DC2022★ 6 cited

Blockchain for Data Sharing at the Network Edge: Trade-Off Between Capability and Security

Yixin Li, Liang Liang, Yunjian Jia +3

Blokchain is a promising technology to enable distributed and reliable data sharing at the network edge. The high security in blockchain is undoubtedly a critical factor for the ne…

cs.PF2022

Violation Probabilities of AoI and PAoI and Optimal Arrival Rate Allocation for the IoT-based Multi-Source Status Update System

Tianci Zhang, Shutong Chen, Zhengchuan Chen +4

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 info…

cs.IT2022

Analysis of Age of Information in Dual Updating Systems

Zhengchuan Chen, Dapeng Deng, Howard H. Yang +5

We study the average Age of Information (AoI) and peak AoI (PAoI) of a dual-queue status update system that monitors a common stochastic process. Although the double queue parallel…

cs.NI2022

Age of Information: A Two-Sensor Status Update System Monitoring The Same Process

Tianqing Yang, Zhengchuan Chen, Howard H. Yang +3

This work studies the average age of information (AoI) of a monitoring system in which two sensors are sensing the same physical process and update status to a common monitor using…

cs.IT2022

Minimizing Age-upon-Decisions in Bufferless System: Service Scheduling and Decision Interval

Shutong Chen, Tianci Zhang, Zhengchuan Chen +4

In Internet of Things (IoT), the decision timeliness of time-sensitive applications is jointly affected by the statistics of update process and decision process. This work consider…

cs.IT2022

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Spectrum Sharing Coexisting with Multiple Primary Networks

Zhong Tian, Zhengchuan Chen, Min Wang +2

Considering the spectrum sharing system (SSS) coexisting with multiple primary networks, we have employed a well-designed reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to control the ra…

cs.IT2021★ 4 cited

Optimal Distribution Design for Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA with Multi-Packet Reception

Zhengchuan Chen, Yifan Feng, Chundie Feng +3

Associated with multi-packet reception at the access point, irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) holds a great potential in improving the access capacity of massive machine ty…

cs.IT2020

Age-optimal Service and Decision Scheduling in Internet of Things

Zhiwei Bao, Yunquan Dong, Zhengchuan Chen +2

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 wit…

cs.IT2019★ 2 cited

Age-upon-Decisions Minimizing Scheduling in Internet of Things: To be Random or to be Deterministic?

Yunquan Dong, Zhengchuan Chen, Shanyun Liu +2

We consider an Internet of Things (IoT) system in which a sensor delivers updates to a monitor with exponential service time and first-come-first-served (FCFS) discipline. We inves…

cs.IT2018

Age of Information Upon Decisions

Yunquan Dong, Zhengchuan Chen, Shanyun Liu +1

We consider an M/M/1 update-and-decide system where Poisson distributed decisions are made based on the received updates. We propose to characterize the freshness of the received u…

cs.IT2018

Improving Network Availability of Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications with Multi-Connectivity

Changyang She, Zhengchuan Chen, Chenyang Yang +3

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) have stringent requirements on quality-of-service and network availability. Due to path loss and shadowing, it is very challen…

cs.IT2017

Uplink Age of Information of Unilaterally Powered Two-way Data Exchanging Systems

Yunquan Dong, Zhengchuan Chen, Pingyi Fan

We consider a two-way data exchanging system where a master node transfers energy and data packets to a slave node alternatively. The slave node harvests the transferred energy and…

cs.IT2017★ 2 cited

Beyond Empirical Models: Pattern Formation Driven Placement of UAV Base Stations

Jiaxun Lu, Shuo Wan, Xuhong Chen +3

This work considers the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) with criterion of minimum UAV-recall-frequency (UAV-RF), indicating the energy efficiency of mo…

cs.IT2017

Capacity Region of Gaussian Multiple-Access Channels with Energy Harvesting and Energy Cooperation

Yunquan Dong, Zhengchuan Chen, Pingyi Fan

We consider the capacity region of a -user multiple access channel (MAC) with energy harvesting transmitters. Each user stores and schedules the randomly arriving energy using a…

cs.IT2016★ 41 cited

Optimum Transmission Policies for Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks Powered By a Mobile Control Center

Tao Li, Pingyi Fan, Zhengchuan Chen +1

Wireless energy transfer, namely RF-based energy harvesting, is a potential way to prolong the lifetime of energy-constrained devices, especially in wireless sensor networks. Howev…

cs.IT2015★ 4 cited

Subcarrier grouping with environmental sensing for MIMO-OFDM systems over correlated double-selective fading channels

Jiaxun Lu, Zhengchuan Chen, Pingyi Fan +1

With the increase of physical antenna and subcarrier numbers in MIMO-OFDM systems, channel side information feedback amount and signal precoding complexity overburden will consume…

cs.NI2015

Network Coding Tree Algorithm for Multiple Access System

Zhengchuan Chen, Ke Xiong, Pingyi Fan +1

Network coding is famous for significantly improving the throughput of networks. The successful decoding of the network coded data relies on some side information of the original d…

cs.IT2014★ 1 cited

On the Power Allocation for Hybrid DF and CF Protocol with Auxiliary Parameter in Fading Relay Channels

Zhengchuan Chen, Pingyi Fan, Dapeng Wu +1

In fading channels, power allocation over channel state may bring a rate increment compared to the fixed constant power mode. Such a rate increment is referred to power allocation…