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Optimal Age Over Erasure Channels.
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Sep2022, Vol. 68 Issue 9, p5901-5922, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Previous works on age of information and erasure channels have dealt with specific models and computed the average age or average peak age for certain settings. In this paper, given a source that produces a letter every $T_{s}$ seconds and an erasure channel that can be used every $T_{c}$ seconds, we ask what is the coding strategy that minimizes the time-average “age of information” that an observer of the channel output incurs. We first analyze the case where the source alphabet and the channel-input alphabet have the same size. We show that a trivial coding strategy is optimal and a closed form expression for the age can be derived. We then analyze the case where the alphabets have different sizes. We use a random coding argument to bound the average age and show that the average age achieved using random codes converges to the optimal average age of linear block codes as the source alphabet becomes large. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BLOCK codes
LINEAR codes
AGE groups
INFORMATION society
SOURCE code
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189448
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158603976
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2022.3167601