Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA for Optimizing Information Freshness in Mobile NetworksShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN 1536-1276, E-ISSN 1558-2248, Vol. 23, no 11, p. 17236-17251Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We optimize the Age of Information (AoI) in mobile networks using the age-threshold slotted ALOHA (TSA) protocol. The network comprises multiple source-destination pairs, where each source sends a sequence of status update packets to its destination over a shared spectrum. The TSA protocol stipulates that a source node must remain silent until its AoI reaches a predefined threshold, after which the node accesses the radio channel with a certain probability. Using stochastic geometry tools, we derive analytical expressions for the transmission success probability, mean peak AoI, and time-average AoI. Subsequently, we obtain closed-form expressions for the optimal update rate and age threshold that minimize the mean peak and time-average AoI, respectively. In addition, we establish a scaling law for the mean peak AoI and time-average AoI in mobile networks, revealing that the optimal mean peak AoI and time-average AoI increase linearly with the deployment density. Notably, the growth rate of time-average AoI under TSA is half of that under SA. When considering the optimal mean peak AoI, the TSA protocol exhibits comparable performance to the traditional slotted ALOHA protocol. These findings conclusively affirm the advantage of TSA in reducing higher-order AoI, particularly in densely deployed networks.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2024. Vol. 23, no 11, p. 17236-17251
Keywords [en]
Interference; Protocols; Signal to noise ratio; Numerical models; Measurement; Mathematical models; Throughput; Age of information; mobile networks; status updating protocol; age threshold; interference
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210184DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3452435ISI: 001355813300040OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-210184DiVA, id: diva2:1917765
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [62201504]; Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University [2024D05]; Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LGJ22F010001]; Swedish Research Council (VR), ELLIIT; European Union (ETHER) [101096526]; Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2024A1515012015]; National Research Foundation, Singapore; Infocomm Media Development Authority under its Future Communications Research& Development Programme
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