Timely Status Updates in Slotted ALOHA Networks With Energy Harvesting

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Hauptverfasser: Ngo, Khac-Hoang, Durisi, Giuseppe, Munari, Andrea, Lázaro, Francisco, Amat, Alexandre Graell i
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author Ngo, Khac-Hoang
Durisi, Giuseppe
Munari, Andrea
Lázaro, Francisco
Amat, Alexandre Graell i
author_facet Ngo, Khac-Hoang
Durisi, Giuseppe
Munari, Andrea
Lázaro, Francisco
Amat, Alexandre Graell i
contents We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission probabilities based on their current battery level. Using a Markovian analysis, we derive analytically the average AoI. We further provide an approximate analysis for accurate and easy-to-compute approximations of both the average AoI and the age-violation probability (AVP), i.e., the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold. We also analyze the average throughput. Via numerical results, we investigate two baseline strategies: transmit a new update whenever possible to exploit every opportunity to reduce the AoI, and transmit only when sufficient energy is available to increase the chance of successful decoding. The two strategies are beneficial for low and high update-generation rates, respectively. We show that an optimized policy that balances the two strategies outperforms them significantly in terms of both AoI metrics and throughput. Finally, we show the benefit of decoding multiple packets in a slot using successive interference cancellation and adapting the transmission probability based on both the current battery level and the time elapsed since the last transmission.
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spellingShingle Timely Status Updates in Slotted ALOHA Networks With Energy Harvesting
Ngo, Khac-Hoang
Durisi, Giuseppe
Munari, Andrea
Lázaro, Francisco
Amat, Alexandre Graell i
Information Theory
Signal Processing
We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission probabilities based on their current battery level. Using a Markovian analysis, we derive analytically the average AoI. We further provide an approximate analysis for accurate and easy-to-compute approximations of both the average AoI and the age-violation probability (AVP), i.e., the probability that the AoI exceeds a given threshold. We also analyze the average throughput. Via numerical results, we investigate two baseline strategies: transmit a new update whenever possible to exploit every opportunity to reduce the AoI, and transmit only when sufficient energy is available to increase the chance of successful decoding. The two strategies are beneficial for low and high update-generation rates, respectively. We show that an optimized policy that balances the two strategies outperforms them significantly in terms of both AoI metrics and throughput. Finally, we show the benefit of decoding multiple packets in a slot using successive interference cancellation and adapting the transmission probability based on both the current battery level and the time elapsed since the last transmission.
title Timely Status Updates in Slotted ALOHA Networks With Energy Harvesting
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18990