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Main Authors: He, Yuqiao, Chen, Yuchao, Wang, Jintao, Song, Jian
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04281
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author He, Yuqiao
Chen, Yuchao
Wang, Jintao
Song, Jian
author_facet He, Yuqiao
Chen, Yuchao
Wang, Jintao
Song, Jian
contents This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) via a shared, error-free channel with limited bandwidth. The status updates arrive at each node randomly. We use the Age of Synchronization (AoS) as a metric to measure the information freshness of the updates. The AoS of each node has a timely-varying importance which follows a Markov chain. Our objective is to minimize the weighted sum AoS of the system. The optimization problem is relaxed and formulated as a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP). Solving the relaxed CMDP by a linear programming algorithm yields a stationary policy, which helps us propose a near-stationary policy for the original problem. Numerical simulations show that in most configurations, the AoS performance of our policy outperforms the policy choosing the maximum AoS regardless of weight variations.
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spellingShingle Age of Synchronization Minimization in Wireless Networks with Random Updates and Time-Varying Timeliness Requirement
He, Yuqiao
Chen, Yuchao
Wang, Jintao
Song, Jian
Information Theory
This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) via a shared, error-free channel with limited bandwidth. The status updates arrive at each node randomly. We use the Age of Synchronization (AoS) as a metric to measure the information freshness of the updates. The AoS of each node has a timely-varying importance which follows a Markov chain. Our objective is to minimize the weighted sum AoS of the system. The optimization problem is relaxed and formulated as a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP). Solving the relaxed CMDP by a linear programming algorithm yields a stationary policy, which helps us propose a near-stationary policy for the original problem. Numerical simulations show that in most configurations, the AoS performance of our policy outperforms the policy choosing the maximum AoS regardless of weight variations.
title Age of Synchronization Minimization in Wireless Networks with Random Updates and Time-Varying Timeliness Requirement
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04281