Exact Analysis of the Age of Information in the Multi-Source M/GI/1 Queueing System

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Autores principales: Inoue, Yoshiaki, Takine, Tetsuya
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author Inoue, Yoshiaki
Takine, Tetsuya
author_facet Inoue, Yoshiaki
Takine, Tetsuya
contents We consider a situation that multiple monitoring applications (each with a different sensor-monitor pair) compete for a common service resource such as a communication link. Each sensor reports the latest state of its own time-varying information source to its corresponding monitor, incurring queueing and processing delays at the shared resource. The primary performance metric of interest is the age of information (AoI) of each sensor-monitor pair, which is defined as the elapsed time from the generation of the information currently displayed on the monitor. Although the multi-source first-come first-served (FCFS) M/GI/1 queue is one of the most fundamental model to describe such competing sensors, its exact analysis has been an open problem for years. In this paper, we show that the Laplace-Stieltjes transform (LST) of the stationary distribution of the AoI in this model, as well as the mean AoI, is given by a simple explicit formula, utilizing the double Laplace transform of the transient workload in the M/GI/1 queue.
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spellingShingle Exact Analysis of the Age of Information in the Multi-Source M/GI/1 Queueing System
Inoue, Yoshiaki
Takine, Tetsuya
Networking and Internet Architecture
We consider a situation that multiple monitoring applications (each with a different sensor-monitor pair) compete for a common service resource such as a communication link. Each sensor reports the latest state of its own time-varying information source to its corresponding monitor, incurring queueing and processing delays at the shared resource. The primary performance metric of interest is the age of information (AoI) of each sensor-monitor pair, which is defined as the elapsed time from the generation of the information currently displayed on the monitor. Although the multi-source first-come first-served (FCFS) M/GI/1 queue is one of the most fundamental model to describe such competing sensors, its exact analysis has been an open problem for years. In this paper, we show that the Laplace-Stieltjes transform (LST) of the stationary distribution of the AoI in this model, as well as the mean AoI, is given by a simple explicit formula, utilizing the double Laplace transform of the transient workload in the M/GI/1 queue.
title Exact Analysis of the Age of Information in the Multi-Source M/GI/1 Queueing System
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05167