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Information Freshness Analysis of Slotted ALOHA in Gilbert-Elliot Channels

Information Theory 2021-06-23 v2 Networking and Internet Architecture math.IT

Abstract

This letter analyzes a class of information freshness metrics for large IoT systems in which terminals employ slotted ALOHA to access a common channel. Considering a Gilbert- Elliot channel model, information freshness is evaluated through a penalty function that follows a power law of the time elapsed since the last received update, in contrast with the linear growth of age of information. By means of a signal flow graph analysis of Markov processes, we provide exact closed form expressions for the average penalty and for the peak penalty violation probability.

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@article{arxiv.2103.13346,
  title  = {Information Freshness Analysis of Slotted ALOHA in Gilbert-Elliot Channels},
  author = {Andrea Munari and Gianluigi Liva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13346},
  year   = {2021}
}