Information freshness in IoT-based status update systems has recently been studied through the Age of (AoI) and Peak AoI (PAoI) performance metrics. In this paper, we study a discrete-time server arising multi-source IoT which accepts incoming information packets from multiple sources so as to be forwarded remote monitor for purposes. Under assumption Bernoulli packet arrivals common geometric ...

Age of information (AoI) is a key performance metric for the Internet things (IoT). Timely status updates are essential many IoT applications; however, they often suffer from harsh energy constraints and unreliability underlying sources. To overcome these unpredictabilities, one can employ multiple sources that track same process interest, but with different costs reliabilities. We consider an ...

The rapid changes in the telecommunications sector shorten the useful lifespan of many of the established telecommunications traffic indicators, creating the need for constant re-assessment and improvement of existing indicators and the development of new ones. This paper first reviews two prominent publications by TeleGeography, Inc. that provide telecommunications traffic and Internet statist...

The following essay captures the relevance of these three works to the prolonged irregular war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Based on the arguments so aptly put forth in these studies, this essay posits that irregular warfare in the twenty-first century requires intuitive and creative leaders who can masterfully weave information operations, combined general-purpose operations, and special ...

The paper is focused on changes occurred in military organizations in Information Age. During Industrial Age the military structure of forces evolved according with principles of decomposition, specialization, hierarchy, optimization, deconfliction, centralized planning, and decentralized execution. But now the solutions based upon Industrial Age assumptions and practices will break down and fa...

This paper draws attention to the profound changes that human civilization is experiencing as it moves from an industrial environment into an information environment, in which unprecedented emphasis is placed on the knowledge and capabilities of the individual. A clear distinction is drawn between data and information in relationship to computer-based facilities, and the transition of data-proc...

This chapter covers theories of the modern information age in a number of steps: First, there is a description of some of the intellectual precursors that give rise to the notion that we are living in an information or knowledge age. Second, an enumeration of some of the perspectives that lead to the idea of modern societies as knowledge or information societies. Third, the usage of the term kn...

One implication of future information superiority is a new set of concepts for all the military services. The concepts in Joint Vision 2010— dominant maneuver, precision engagement, full-dimensional protection, and focused logistics—are viewed as “transformations” of more traditional functions (maneuver, strike, protection, and logistics) “so powerful that they become, in effect, new concepts.”