Age Optimal Information Gathering and Dissemination on Graphs
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Tripathi, Vishrant; Talak, Rajat Rajendra; Modiano, Eytan H
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We consider the problem of timely exchange of updates between a central station and a set of ground terminals V, via a mobile agent that traverses across the ground terminals along a mobility graph G=(V, E). We design the trajectory of the mobile agent to minimize peak and average age of information (AoI), two newly proposed metrics for measuring timeliness of information. We consider randomized trajectories, in which the mobile agent travels from terminal i to terminal j with probability PiJ. For the information gathering problem, we show that a randomized trajectory is peak age optimal and factor-8H average age optimal, where H is the mixing time of the randomized trajectory on the mobility graph G. We also show that the average age minimization problem is NP-hard. For the information dissemination problem, we prove that the same randomized trajectory is factor-O(H) peak and average age optimal. Moreover, we propose an age-based trajectory, which utilizes information about current age at terminals, and show that it is factor-2 average age optimal in a symmetric setting.
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2019-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticsJournal
IEEE INFOCOM 2019
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IEEE
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Tripathi, Vishrant, Rajat Talak and Eytan Modiano. “Age Optimal Information Gathering and Dissemination on Graphs.” IEEE INFOCOM 2019, Paris France, April 29-May 2, 2019 © 2019 The Author(s)
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9781728105154