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Age of Information and Throughput in a Shared Access Network with Heterogeneous Traffic
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Communications and Transport Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Communications and Transport Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4416-7702
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Communications and Transport Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Communications and Transport Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
2018 (English)In: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018, pp. 1-6., 2018Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

We consider a cognitive shared access scheme consisting of a high priority primary node and a low priority network with N secondary nodes accessing the spectrum. Assuming bursty traffic at the primary node, saturated queues at the secondary nodes, and multipacket reception capabilities at the receivers, we derive analytical expressions of the time average age of information of the primary node and the throughput of the secondary nodes. We formulate two optimization problems, the first aiming to minimize the time average age of information of the primary node subject to an aggregate secondary throughput requirement. The second problem aims to maximize the aggregate secondary throughput of the network subject to a maximum time average staleness constraint. Our results provide guidelines for the design of a multiple access system with multipacket reception capabilities that fulfills both timeliness and throughput requirements.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018.
Series
IEEE Global Communications Conference, ISSN 2576-6813 ; 2018
Keywords [en]
Throughput, Receivers, Information age, Delays, Aggregates, Queueing analysis
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-154649DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647212ISI: 000465774300065ISBN: 978-1-5386-4727-1 (electronic)ISBN: 978-1-5386-4728-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-154649DiVA, id: diva2:1291370
Conference
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Note

Funding agencies: European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant [642743]

Available from: 2019-02-25 Created: 2019-02-25 Last updated: 2020-07-02
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1. Analysis of the Age of Information in Status Update Systems
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2018 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Rapid advances in wireless technology have taken us towards a pervasively connected world in which a vast array of wireless devices, from mobile phones to environmental sensors, seamlessly communicate with each other. In some of these systems the freshness of the transmitted information is of high importance. Characterization of time-critical information can be done through the so called real-time status updates that are messages, in the form of packets, carrying a timestamp of their generation. Status updates track time-varying content that needs to be transmitted from the generation point to a remote destination within a network. To quantify the freshness of information in networked systems a novel metric, different than delay or latency, termed as "age of information" (AoI) has been introduced. In this thesis, we focus on the communication systems' adaptability to meet stringent timeliness constraints.

In Paper I, we expand the concept of information ageing by introducing the cost of update delay (CoUD) metric to characterize the cost of having stale information at the destination. Furthermore, we introduce the value of information of update (VoIU) metric that captures the degree of importance of the update received at the destination. A theoretical analysis and insights into the relation of cost and value are provided.

Paper II investigates AoI in relation with throughput in a shared access setup with heterogeneous traffc. More specifically, we consider a shared access system consisting of a primary link and a network of secondary nodes, with multipacket reception (MPR) capabilities. To study the joint throughput-timeliness performance, we formulate two optimization problems considering both objectives and provide guidelines for the design of such a multiple access system fulfilling both timeliness and throughput requirements.

Finally, in Paper III we investigate the AoI performance in various multiple access (MA) schemes, including scheduling and random access. We present analysis of the AoI with and without packet management at the transmission queue of the source nodes, considering that packet management is the capability to replace unserved packets at the queue whenever newer ones arrive. We incorporate the effect of channel fading and network path diversity in such a system and provide simulation results that illustrate the impact of network operating parameters on the performance of the different access protocols.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2018. p. 29
Series
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis, ISSN 0280-7971 ; 1820
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-151303 (URN)9789176852187 (ISBN)
Presentation
2018-09-25, K3, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping, Norrköping, 10:15 (English)
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Available from: 2018-09-17 Created: 2018-09-17 Last updated: 2019-05-09Bibliographically approved
2. Age of Information Aware Communication Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis
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2020 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Advances in wireless communications and networking technology have taken us towards a pervasively connected world in which a vast array of wireless devices, from mobile phones to environmental sensors, seamlessly communicate with each other. In many of these systems the freshness of the transmitted information is of high importance. Characterization of time-critical information can be achieved through the so-called real-time status updates that are messages, encapsulated in packets, carrying the timestamp of their generation. Status updates track time-varying content that needs to be transmitted from the generation point to a remote destination in a network. To quantify the freshness of information in networked systems, a novel metric, different from delay or latency, termed as “age of information” (AoI) has been introduced. In this thesis, we focus on characterizing and controlling age under various communication system setups.

The first part of the thesis considers multiple access communication systems and comprises two papers. The first paper, investigates AoI in relation with throughput in a shared access setup with heterogeneous traffic. More specifically, we consider a shared access system consisting of a primary link and a network of secondary nodes, with multipacket reception (MPR) capabilities. To study the joint throughput-timeliness performance, we formulate two optimization problems considering both objectives and provide guidelines for the design of such a multiple access system satisfying both timeliness and throughput requirements.

In the second paper, we study the AoI performance in various multiple access schemes, including scheduling and random access. We present an analysis of the AoI with and without packet management at the transmission queue of the source nodes, considering that packet management is the capability to replace unserved packets in the queue whenever newer ones arrive. We incorporate the effect of channel fading and network path diversity in such a system and provide simulation results that illustrate the impact of network operating parameters on the performance of the considered access protocols.

The second part of the thesis considers the characterization of AoI and other freshness performance metrics in a point-to-point communication link, again comprising two papers. In the third paper of this thesis, we expand the concept of information ageing by introducing the cost of update delay (CoUD) metric to characterize the cost of having stale information at the destination. Furthermore, we introduce the value of information of update (VoIU) metric that captures the degree of importance of the update received at the destination. We employ queue-theoretic concepts and provide a theoretical analysis and insights into the prospects of cost and value.

Finally, in the last paper, we study the properties of a sample path of the AoI process, and we obtain a general formula of its stationary distribution. We relate this result to a discrete time queueing system and provide a general expression of the generating function of AoI in relation with the system time, and the peak age of information (PAoI). To illustrate the applicability of the results, we analyze the AoI in single-server queues with different disciplines and assumptions. We build upon these results to provide a methodology for analyzing general non-linear age functions for this type of systems.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020. p. 51
Series
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations, ISSN 0345-7524 ; 2060
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-165126 (URN)10.3384/diss.diva-165126 (DOI)9789179298760 (ISBN)
Public defence
2020-05-18, K3, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping, Norrköping, 13:15 (English)
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Available from: 2020-04-16 Created: 2020-04-16 Last updated: 2020-04-20Bibliographically approved

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