Optimal Status Updates for Minimizing Age of Correlated Information in IoT Networks With Energy Harvesting SensorsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ISSN 1536-1233, E-ISSN 1558-0660, Vol. 23, no 6, p. 6848-6864Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Many real-time applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) need to deal with correlated information generated by multiple sensors. The design of efficient status update strategies that minimize the Age of Correlated Information (AoCI) is a key factor. In this paper, we consider an IoT network consisting of sensors equipped with the energy harvesting (EH) capability. We optimize the average AoCI at the data fusion center (DFC) by appropriately managing the energy harvested by sensors, whose true battery states are unobservable during the decision-making process. Particularly, we first formulate the dynamic status update procedure as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), where the environmental dynamics are unknown to the DFC. In order to address the challenges arising from the causality of energy usage, unknown environmental dynamics, unobservability of sensors' true battery states, and large-scale discrete action space, we devise a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based dynamic status update algorithm. The algorithm leverages the advantages of the soft actor-critic and long short-term memory techniques. Meanwhile, it incorporates our proposed action decomposition and mapping mechanism. Extensive simulations are conducted to validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm by comparing it with available DRL algorithms for POMDPs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2024. Vol. 23, no 6, p. 6848-6864
Keywords [en]
Internet of Things (IoT); age of correlated information (AoCI); deep reinforcement learning (DRL); energy harvesting (EH); partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP)
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203736DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2023.3329170ISI: 001216462000008OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-203736DiVA, id: diva2:1861180
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China
2024-05-272024-05-272024-05-27