Age-of-information with information source diversity in an energy harvesting system
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Author(s)
Gindullina, Elvina
Badia, Leonardo
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Age of information (AoI) is a key performance metric for the Internet of things (IoT). Timely status updates are essential for many IoT applications; however, they often suffer from harsh energy constraints and the unreliability of underlying information sources. To overcome these unpredictabilities, one can employ multiple sources that track the same process of interest, but with different energy costs and reliabilities. We consider an energy-harvesting (EH) monitoring node equipped with a finite-size battery and collecting status updates from multiple heterogeneous information sources. We investigate the policies that minimize the average AoI, formulating a Markov decision process (MDP) to choose the optimal actions of either updating from one of the sources or remaining idle, based on the current energy level and the AoI at the monitoring node. We analyze the structure of the optimal solution for different cost/AoI distribution combinations, and compare its performance with an aggressive policy that transmits whenever possible.
Date Issued
2021-09-01
Date Acceptance
2021-06-09
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2021, 5 (3), pp.1529-1540
ISSN
2473-2400
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1529
End Page
1540
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
Volume
5
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Telecommunications
Monitoring
Internet of Things
Sensors
Batteries
Markov processes
Wireless sensor networks
Robot sensing systems
Age of information
energy harvesting
heterogeneous systems
Markov decision process
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Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-06-24