Online Timely Status Updates with Erasures for Energy Harvesting Sensors

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

An energy harvesting sensor that is sending status updates to a destination through an erasure channel is considered, in which transmissions are prone to being erased with some probability q, independently from other transmissions. The sensor, however, is unaware of erasure events due to lack of feedback from the destination. Energy expenditure is normalized in the sense that one transmission consumes one unit of energy. The sensor is equipped with a unit-sized battery to save its incoming energy, which arrives according to a Poisson process of unit rate. The setting is online, in which energy arrival times are only revealed causally after being harvested, and the goal is to design transmission times such that the long term average age of information (AoI), defined as the time elapsed since the latest update has reached the destination successfully, is minimized. The optimal status update policy is first shown to have a renewal structure, in which the time instants at which the destination receives an update successfully constitute a renewal process. Then, for q\leq \frac {1}{2}, the optimal renewal policy is shown to have a threshold structure, in which a new status update is transmitted only if the AoI grows above a certain threshold, that is shown to be a decreasing function of q. While for q \gt \frac {1}{2}, the optimal renewal policy is shown to be greedy, in which a new status update is transmitted whenever energy is available.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages966-972
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538665961
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2018
Event56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2018 - Monticello, United States
Duration: Oct 2 2018Oct 5 2018

Publication series

Name2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2018

Conference

Conference56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonticello
Period10/2/1810/5/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Control and Optimization

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