Improving Information Freshness via Multi-Sensor Parallel Status UpdatingShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 73, no 1, p. 540-554Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This work studies the average Age of Information (AoI) of a remote monitoring setup in which a multi-sensor system observes independent sources and updates the status to a common monitor using orthogonal channels. Considering the limited buffer size at the sensors, we first model each sensor as a first-come-first-served M/M/1/1 queue. Leveraging tools from stochastic hybrid systems, we derive the average AoI of a homogeneous single-source multi-sensor system in which all sensors' arrival and service rates are the same. We then extend the results to the multi-source, multi-sensor system. For a multi-source dual-sensor system, we present an approximate optimal arrival rate for a given sum arrival rate at a light load. For heterogeneous cases with different arrival and service rates at sensors, the average AoI is derived for the single-source dual-sensor and more general multi-source systems. Our analysis shows that the average AoI decreases by 16.44% and 21.44% for the dual-sensor and three-sensor systems, respectively, compared to the single-sensor system when the service rate and the total arrival rate of the sensors are normalized. Numerical results confirm that the average AoI performance of the single-source dual-sensor system outperforms the M/M/2 system at high system load.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2025. Vol. 73, no 1, p. 540-554
Keywords [en]
Sensors; Sensor systems; Internet of Things; Queueing analysis; Intelligent sensors; Task analysis; Stochastic processes; Age of information; stochastic hybrid systems
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-211316DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3424223ISI: 001398823500038Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85197544036OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-211316DiVA, id: diva2:1934731
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [62271092, 62201504]; Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF [GZC20242130]; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2024M753836]; Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China [CSTB2023NSCQ-MSX0933, CSTB2022NSCQ-MSX0327]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2023CDJKYJH044]; Xiaomi Young Talents Program; Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LGJ22F010001]; Open research fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University [2024D05]; Zhejiang - Singapore Innovation and AI Joint Research Lab; National Research Foundation, Singapore and Infocomm Media Development Authority under its Future Communications Research & Development Programme
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