Scheduling Status Updates to Minimize Age of Information with an Energy Harvesting Sensor


BACINOĞLU B. T., UYSAL BIYIKOĞLU E.

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, Almanya, 25 - 30 Haziran 2017, ss.1122-1126 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Aachen
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1122-1126
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Age of Information is a measure of the freshness of status updates in monitoring applications and update-based systems. We study a real-time sensing scenario with a sensor which is restricted by time-varying energy constraints and battery limitations. The sensor sends updates over a packet erasure channel with no feedback. The problem of finding an age-optimal threshold policy, with the transmission threshold being a function of the energy state and the estimated current age, is formulated. The average age is analyzed for the unit battery scenario under a memoryless energy arrival process. Somewhat surprisingly, for any finite arrival rate of energy, there is a positive age threshold for transmission, which corresponding to transmitting at a rate lower than that dictated by the rate of energy arrivals. A lower bound on the average age is obtained for general battery size.