Enhancing Information Freshness: An AoI Optimized Markov Decision Process

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Autori principali: Xu, Jingzehua, Ding, Yimian, Yang, Yiyuan, Xie, Guanwen, Zhang, Shuai
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Xu, Jingzehua
Ding, Yimian
Yang, Yiyuan
Xie, Guanwen
Zhang, Shuai
author_facet Xu, Jingzehua
Ding, Yimian
Yang, Yiyuan
Xie, Guanwen
Zhang, Shuai
contents Ocean exploration utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a significant research focus. However, underwater tasks have mostly failed due to the observation delay caused by information limitation in the information updating networks. In this study, we present an AoI optimized Markov decision process (AoI-MDP) to improve the performance of underwater tasks. Specifically, AoI-MDP models observation delay as timing delay through statistical delay formulation, and includes this delay as a new component in the state space. Additionally, we introduce wait time in the action space, and integrate AoI with reward functions to achieve joint optimization of information freshness and decision-making for AUVs leveraging RL for training. Finally, we apply this approach to the multi-AUV data collection task scenario as an example. Simulation results highlight the feasibility of AoI-MDP, which effectively minimizes AoI while showcasing superior performance in the task. To accelerate relevant research in this field, we have made the simulation codes available as open-source.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Information Freshness: An AoI Optimized Markov Decision Process
Xu, Jingzehua
Ding, Yimian
Yang, Yiyuan
Xie, Guanwen
Zhang, Shuai
Systems and Control
Ocean exploration utilizing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) via reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a significant research focus. However, underwater tasks have mostly failed due to the observation delay caused by information limitation in the information updating networks. In this study, we present an AoI optimized Markov decision process (AoI-MDP) to improve the performance of underwater tasks. Specifically, AoI-MDP models observation delay as timing delay through statistical delay formulation, and includes this delay as a new component in the state space. Additionally, we introduce wait time in the action space, and integrate AoI with reward functions to achieve joint optimization of information freshness and decision-making for AUVs leveraging RL for training. Finally, we apply this approach to the multi-AUV data collection task scenario as an example. Simulation results highlight the feasibility of AoI-MDP, which effectively minimizes AoI while showcasing superior performance in the task. To accelerate relevant research in this field, we have made the simulation codes available as open-source.
title Enhancing Information Freshness: An AoI Optimized Markov Decision Process
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02424