Publication Date
Second Quarter 2021
Manuscript Submission Deadline
Call for Papers
The freshness of information is of fundamental importance in networked monitoring and cyber-physical systems such as sensor networks, airplane/vehicular control, robotic networks, and the Internet of Things, as well as in information-update and data analytics applications such as crowdsourcing, financial trading, social networks, and online learning. Age of Information (AoI) is a new concept that describes performance metrics for information freshness, as a means for fundamental research, and as a tool in latency-sensitive applications. Recent research advances on AoI suggest that many well-known design principles (e.g., for providing high throughput and low delay) of traditional data networks need to be re-examined for enhancing information freshness in emerging real-time applications.
This special issue is dedicated to communication theory, information theory, networking and signal processing aspects of networks and edge-cloud processing systems that enable latency-sensitive information-update systems. We solicit original papers in areas (not limited to):
- Age-optimized network protocols (e.g., transport, routing, and medium access)
- Age of information analysis and control in multiuser communication systems
- Timely updating in sensor networks
- Timely updating in networks of energy harvesting devices
- Data freshness in caches and databases
- Timeliness in cloud computing and storage
- Age of information and information theory
- Age-optimized source and channel coding
- Age of information and machine learning
- Age of information and control theory
- Timeliness in signal tracking and estimation
- Age of information in security and privacy
- Age of information and game theory
- Economics and pricing of fresh data
- AoI as a performance metric for real-world cyber-physical systems (e.g. health and energy monitoring, real-time surveillance, networks of autonomous vehicles, augmented/virtual reality)
Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE JSAC guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to EDAS according to the following schedule:
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 July 2020
First Notification: 1 October 2020
Acceptance Notification: 1 February 2021
Final Manuscript Due: 1 March 2021
Planned Publication: Second Quarter 2021