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Peak AoI Minimization With Directional Charging for Data Collection at Wireless-Powered Network Edge


Abstract:

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a new metric to measure data freshness from the destination's perspective. To optimize the system AoI, most existing works focused...Show More

Abstract:

Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a new metric to measure data freshness from the destination's perspective. To optimize the system AoI, most existing works focused on the point of scheduling of update transmissions. While at wireless-powered network edge, the source nodes can only transmit their updates after being charged ready, which means the system AoI is not only determined by the update transmission strategies, but also the charging strategies. Thus, in this article, we investigate the first work to optimize the weighted peak AoI from the point of charging at wireless-powered network edge. First, the problem of optimizing the weighted sum of average peak AoI with a directional charger is formulated, and then transformed to a charging time optimization problem with respect to the charging orientations and peak AoI, and an approximate algorithm is proposed to obtain the required charging time for each source node. Second, an age-based scheduling algorithm is proposed to compute the charging decisions and transmission decisions simultaneously, which can not only optimize the weighted sum of average peak AoI, but also guarantee the maximum peak AoI of each source node is bounded. The proposed algorithm is proved to have an approximation ratio of up to (1+\varphi), where \varphi is a small value related to the weight of each source node. When there exist multiple chargers, an approximate algorithm is also proposed to minimize the weighted sum of average peak AoI by scheduling the orientations of these chargers cooperatively. Finally, the extensive simulations demonstrate the high performance of the proposed algorithms in terms of peak AoI.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ( Volume: 17, Issue: 5, Sept.-Oct. 2024)
Page(s): 2747 - 2761
Date of Publication: 12 December 2023

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