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Age-Optimal Multi-Flow Status Updating with Errors: A Sample-Path Approach

Networking and Internet Architecture 2023-10-04 v2 Information Theory Performance Social and Information Networks Systems and Control Systems and Control math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we study an age of information minimization problem in continuous-time and discrete-time status updating systems that involve multiple packet flows, multiple servers, and transmission errors. Four scheduling policies are proposed. We develop a unifying sample-path approach and use it to show that, when the packet generation and arrival times are synchronized across the flows, the proposed policies are (near) optimal for minimizing any time-dependent, symmetric, and non-decreasing penalty function of the ages of the flows over time in a stochastic ordering sense.

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@article{arxiv.2310.00243,
  title  = {Age-Optimal Multi-Flow Status Updating with Errors: A Sample-Path Approach},
  author = {Yin Sun and Sastry Kompella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00243},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted by the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) Special Issue. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1801.02394

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