Minimizing Task-Oriented Age of Information for Remote Monitoring with Pre-Identification
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| author | Gan, Shuying Wang, Xijun Xu, Chao Chen, Xiang |
| author_facet | Gan, Shuying Wang, Xijun Xu, Chao Chen, Xiang |
| contents | The emergence of new intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this end, we introduce an innovative metric, the Task-oriented Age of Information (TAoI), to measure whether the content of information is relevant to the system task, thereby assisting the system in efficiently completing designated tasks. We apply TAoI to a wireless monitoring system tasked with identifying targets and transmitting their images for subsequent analysis. To minimize TAoI and determine the optimal transmission policy, we formulate the dynamic transmission problem as a Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) and transform it into an equivalent Markov Decision Process (MDP). Our analysis demonstrates that the optimal policy is threshold-based with respect to TAoI. Building on this, we propose a low-complexity relative value iteration algorithm tailored to this threshold structure to derive the optimal transmission policy. Additionally, we introduce a simpler single-threshold policy, which, despite a slight performance degradation, offers faster convergence. Comprehensive experiments and simulations validate the superior performance of our optimal transmission policy compared to two established baseline approaches. |
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| spellingShingle | Minimizing Task-Oriented Age of Information for Remote Monitoring with Pre-Identification Gan, Shuying Wang, Xijun Xu, Chao Chen, Xiang Information Theory Networking and Internet Architecture The emergence of new intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this end, we introduce an innovative metric, the Task-oriented Age of Information (TAoI), to measure whether the content of information is relevant to the system task, thereby assisting the system in efficiently completing designated tasks. We apply TAoI to a wireless monitoring system tasked with identifying targets and transmitting their images for subsequent analysis. To minimize TAoI and determine the optimal transmission policy, we formulate the dynamic transmission problem as a Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) and transform it into an equivalent Markov Decision Process (MDP). Our analysis demonstrates that the optimal policy is threshold-based with respect to TAoI. Building on this, we propose a low-complexity relative value iteration algorithm tailored to this threshold structure to derive the optimal transmission policy. Additionally, we introduce a simpler single-threshold policy, which, despite a slight performance degradation, offers faster convergence. Comprehensive experiments and simulations validate the superior performance of our optimal transmission policy compared to two established baseline approaches. |
| title | Minimizing Task-Oriented Age of Information for Remote Monitoring with Pre-Identification |
| topic | Information Theory Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14575 |