Remote IoT Source Monitoring with Delayed Feedback
Abstract
Remote source monitoring is a key use case for Internet of things (IoT) applications, calling on efficient communications protocols to ensure timely data delivery. In this paper, we consider a practically inspired scenario in which an IoT device reports sensor readings to a gateway over a correlated, lossy channel, receiving feedback on the transmission outcome only after some delay. For this setting, we investigate practical threshold-based reporting strategies for monitoring a Markov process, and evaluate two approaches: a reactive strategy where the node awaits feedback after an update, and a proactive strategy that preemptively transmits a second update. Leveraging Markov renewal processes, we provide an exact performance analysis in terms of the mean squared error (MSE). Our study characterizes the fundamental trade-off between estimation error and communication rate, revealing that proactive transmissions significantly improve MSE even under strict IoT rate constraints.
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BibTeX
@misc{munari2026remote,
title = {{Remote IoT Source Monitoring with Delayed Feedback}},
author = {Andrea Munari},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.23678},
eprint = {2609.23678},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23678},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Remote IoT Source Monitoring with Delayed Feedback
AU - Andrea Munari
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/20
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.23678
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23678
AB - Remote source monitoring is a key use case for Internet of things (IoT) applications, calling on efficient communications protocols to ensure timely data delivery. In this paper, we consider a practically inspired scenario in which an IoT device reports sensor readings to a gateway over a correlated, lossy channel, receiving feedback on the transmission outcome only after some delay. For this setting, we investigate practical threshold-based reporting strategies for monitoring a Markov process, and evaluate two approaches: a reactive strategy where the node awaits feedback after an update, and a proactive strategy that preemptively transmits a second update. Leveraging Markov renewal processes, we provide an exact performance analysis in terms of the mean squared error (MSE). Our study characterizes the fundamental trade-off between estimation error and communication rate, revealing that proactive transmissions significantly improve MSE even under strict IoT rate constraints.
ER -