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Current research and development efforts for 5G, Internet of things, and artificial intelligence technologies will benefit from new notions of timeliness in designing novel sensing, computing, and transmission strategies. The age of information (AoI) metric and a recent related urgency of information (UoI) metric enable promising frameworks in this direction. In this paper, we consider UoI optimization in an interactive point-to-point system when the updating terminal is resource constrained to send updates and receive\/sense the feedback of the status information at the receiver. We first propose a new system model that involves Gaussian distributed time increments at the receiving end to design interactive transmission and feedback sensing functions and develop a new notion of UoI suitable for this system. We then formulate the UoI optimization with a new objective function involving a weighted combination of urgency levels at the transmitting and receiving ends. By using a Lyapunov optimization framework, we obtain a decision strategy under energy resource constraints at both transmission and receiving\/sensing and show that it can get arbitrarily close to the optimal solution. We numerically study performance comparisons and observe significant improvements with respect to benchmarks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e24111624","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]],"date-time":"2022-11-10T02:01:45Z","timestamp":1668045705000},"page":"1624","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Optimizing Urgency of Information through Resource Constrained Joint Sensing and Transmission"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Zhuoxuan","family":"Ju","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Parisa","family":"Rafiee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5756-0963","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Omur","family":"Ozel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kaul, S., Yates, R., and Gruteser, M. 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