Analysis of Age of Information for A Discrete-Time hybrid Dual-Queue System

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Main Authors: Chen, Zhengchuan, Qu, Yi, Pappas, Nikolaos, Tang, Chaowei, Wang, Min, Quek, Tony Q. S.
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author Chen, Zhengchuan
Qu, Yi
Pappas, Nikolaos
Tang, Chaowei
Wang, Min
Quek, Tony Q. S.
author_facet Chen, Zhengchuan
Qu, Yi
Pappas, Nikolaos
Tang, Chaowei
Wang, Min
Quek, Tony Q. S.
contents Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness performance of parallel updating systems. This work investigates the age of information (AoI) of a discrete-time dual-sensor status updating system. Specifically, the status update is generated following the zero-waiting policy. The two sensors are modeled as a geometrically distributed service time queue and a deterministic service time queue in parallel. We derive the analytical expressions for the average AoI and peak AoI using the graphical analysis method. Moreover, the connection of average AoI between discrete-time and continuous-time systems is also explored. It is shown that the AoI result of the continuous-time system is a limit case of that of the corresponding discrete-time system. Hence, the AoI result of the discrete-time system is more general than the continuous one. Numerical results validate the effectiveness of our analysis and further show that randomness of service time contributes more AoI reduction than determinacy of service time in dual-queue systems in most cases, which is different from what is known about the single-queue system.
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spellingShingle Analysis of Age of Information for A Discrete-Time hybrid Dual-Queue System
Chen, Zhengchuan
Qu, Yi
Pappas, Nikolaos
Tang, Chaowei
Wang, Min
Quek, Tony Q. S.
Information Theory
Statistics Theory
Using multiple sensors to update the status process of interest is promising in improving the information freshness. The unordered arrival of status updates at the monitor end poses a significant challenge in analyzing the timeliness performance of parallel updating systems. This work investigates the age of information (AoI) of a discrete-time dual-sensor status updating system. Specifically, the status update is generated following the zero-waiting policy. The two sensors are modeled as a geometrically distributed service time queue and a deterministic service time queue in parallel. We derive the analytical expressions for the average AoI and peak AoI using the graphical analysis method. Moreover, the connection of average AoI between discrete-time and continuous-time systems is also explored. It is shown that the AoI result of the continuous-time system is a limit case of that of the corresponding discrete-time system. Hence, the AoI result of the discrete-time system is more general than the continuous one. Numerical results validate the effectiveness of our analysis and further show that randomness of service time contributes more AoI reduction than determinacy of service time in dual-queue systems in most cases, which is different from what is known about the single-queue system.
title Analysis of Age of Information for A Discrete-Time hybrid Dual-Queue System
topic Information Theory
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08277