Age-of-information minimization via opportunistic sampling by an energy harvesting source

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Hauptverfasser: Jaiswal, Akanksha, Chattopadhyay, Arpan, Varma, Amokh
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author Jaiswal, Akanksha
Chattopadhyay, Arpan
Varma, Amokh
author_facet Jaiswal, Akanksha
Chattopadhyay, Arpan
Varma, Amokh
contents Herein, minimization of time-averaged age-of-information (AoI) in an energy harvesting (EH) source setting is considered. The EH source opportunistically samples one or multiple processes over discrete time instants and sends the status updates to a sink node over a wireless fading channel. Each time, the EH node decides whether to probe the link quality and then decides whether to sample a process and communicate based on the channel probe outcome. The trade-off is between the freshness of information available at the sink node and the available energy at the source node. We use infinite horizon Markov decision process (MDP) to formulate the AoI minimization problem for two scenarios where energy arrival and channel fading processes are: (i) independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.), (ii) Markovian. In i.i.d. setting, after channel probing, the optimal source sampling policy is shown to be a threshold policy. Also, for unknown channel state and EH characteristics, a variant of the Q-learning algorithm is proposed for the two-stage action model, that seeks to learn the optimal policy. For Markovian system, the problem is again formulated as an MDP, and a learning algorithm is provided for unknown dynamics. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the policy structures and performance trade-offs.
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spellingShingle Age-of-information minimization via opportunistic sampling by an energy harvesting source
Jaiswal, Akanksha
Chattopadhyay, Arpan
Varma, Amokh
Systems and Control
Herein, minimization of time-averaged age-of-information (AoI) in an energy harvesting (EH) source setting is considered. The EH source opportunistically samples one or multiple processes over discrete time instants and sends the status updates to a sink node over a wireless fading channel. Each time, the EH node decides whether to probe the link quality and then decides whether to sample a process and communicate based on the channel probe outcome. The trade-off is between the freshness of information available at the sink node and the available energy at the source node. We use infinite horizon Markov decision process (MDP) to formulate the AoI minimization problem for two scenarios where energy arrival and channel fading processes are: (i) independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.), (ii) Markovian. In i.i.d. setting, after channel probing, the optimal source sampling policy is shown to be a threshold policy. Also, for unknown channel state and EH characteristics, a variant of the Q-learning algorithm is proposed for the two-stage action model, that seeks to learn the optimal policy. For Markovian system, the problem is again formulated as an MDP, and a learning algorithm is provided for unknown dynamics. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the policy structures and performance trade-offs.
title Age-of-information minimization via opportunistic sampling by an energy harvesting source
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02787