From AoI to QVAoI: Query-Based Semantics-Aware Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting IoT Systems

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Autori principali: Delfani, Erfan, Pappas, Nikolaos
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author Delfani, Erfan
Pappas, Nikolaos
author_facet Delfani, Erfan
Pappas, Nikolaos
contents In this work, we study the freshness and significance of information in an IoT status update system in which an Energy Harvesting (EH) device samples an information source and forwards update packets to a destination node via a direct channel. We introduce and optimize a semantics-aware metric, Query Version Age of Information (QVAoI), in the system along with other metrics: Query Age of Information (QAoI), Version Age of Information (VAoI), and Age of Information (AoI). We formulate the optimization problem as a Markov Decision Process to determine the optimal transmission policy at the device, which decides the time slots for transmitting updates, subject to the device's battery energy limitations and the energy arrivals. Furthermore, we derive closed-form expressions for the average update rate and the QVAoI for a unit-capacity battery, serving as analytical benchmarks. We compare the performance of QVAoI-Optimal, QAoI-Optimal, VoI-Optimal, and AoI-Optimal policies with a baseline greedy policy. All semantics-aware policies achieve better performance than the greedy policy. The QVAoI-Optimal policy, in particular, demonstrates a significant performance improvement either by providing fresher, more relevant, and more valuable updates with the same energy arrivals or by reducing the number of transmissions in the system while maintaining the same level of freshness and information significance as the QAoI-Optimal and other policies.
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spellingShingle From AoI to QVAoI: Query-Based Semantics-Aware Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting IoT Systems
Delfani, Erfan
Pappas, Nikolaos
Information Theory
Networking and Internet Architecture
In this work, we study the freshness and significance of information in an IoT status update system in which an Energy Harvesting (EH) device samples an information source and forwards update packets to a destination node via a direct channel. We introduce and optimize a semantics-aware metric, Query Version Age of Information (QVAoI), in the system along with other metrics: Query Age of Information (QAoI), Version Age of Information (VAoI), and Age of Information (AoI). We formulate the optimization problem as a Markov Decision Process to determine the optimal transmission policy at the device, which decides the time slots for transmitting updates, subject to the device's battery energy limitations and the energy arrivals. Furthermore, we derive closed-form expressions for the average update rate and the QVAoI for a unit-capacity battery, serving as analytical benchmarks. We compare the performance of QVAoI-Optimal, QAoI-Optimal, VoI-Optimal, and AoI-Optimal policies with a baseline greedy policy. All semantics-aware policies achieve better performance than the greedy policy. The QVAoI-Optimal policy, in particular, demonstrates a significant performance improvement either by providing fresher, more relevant, and more valuable updates with the same energy arrivals or by reducing the number of transmissions in the system while maintaining the same level of freshness and information significance as the QAoI-Optimal and other policies.
title From AoI to QVAoI: Query-Based Semantics-Aware Scheduling for Energy-Harvesting IoT Systems
topic Information Theory
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08587