62 research outputs found
A Worst-Case Approximate Analysis of Peak Age-of-Information Via Robust Queueing Approach
A new timeliness metric, called Age-of-Information (AoI), has recently
attracted a lot of research interests for real-time applications with
information updates. It has been extensively studied for various queueing
models based on the probabilistic approaches, where the analyses heavily depend
on the properties of specific distributions (e.g., the memoryless property of
the exponential distribution or the i.i.d. assumption). In this work, we take
an alternative new approach, the robust queueing approach, to analyze the Peak
Age-of-Information (PAoI). Specifically, we first model the uncertainty in the
stochastic arrival and service processes using uncertainty sets. This enables
us to approximate the expected PAoI performance for very general arrival and
service processes, including those exhibiting heavy-tailed behaviors or
correlations, where traditional probabilistic approaches cannot be applied. We
then derive a new bound on the PAoI in the single-source single-server setting.
Furthermore, we generalize our analysis to two-source single-server systems
with symmetric arrivals, which involves new challenges (e.g., the service times
of the updates from two sources are coupled in one single uncertainty set).
Finally, through numerical experiments, we show that our new bounds provide a
good approximation for the expected PAoI. Compared to some well-known bounds in
the literature (e.g., one based on Kingman's bound under the i.i.d. assumption)
that tends to be inaccurate under light load, our new approximation is accurate
under both light and high loads, both of which are critical scenarios for the
AoI performance.Comment: Published in IEEE INFOCOM 202
Waiting but not Aging: Optimizing Information Freshness Under the Pull Model
The Age-of-Information is an important metric for investigating the
timeliness performance in information-update systems. In this paper, we study
the AoI minimization problem under a new Pull model with replication schemes,
where a user proactively sends a replicated request to multiple servers to
"pull" the information of interest. Interestingly, we find that under this new
Pull model, replication schemes capture a novel tradeoff between different
values of the AoI across the servers (due to the random updating processes) and
different response times across the servers, which can be exploited to minimize
the expected AoI at the user's side. Specifically, assuming Poisson updating
process for the servers and exponentially distributed response time, we derive
a closed-form formula for computing the expected AoI and obtain the optimal
number of responses to wait for to minimize the expected AoI. Then, we extend
our analysis to the setting where the user aims to maximize the AoI-based
utility, which represents the user's satisfaction level with respect to
freshness of the received information. Furthermore, we consider a more
realistic scenario where the user has no prior knowledge of the system. In this
case, we reformulate the utility maximization problem as a stochastic
Multi-Armed Bandit problem with side observations and leverage a special linear
structure of side observations to design learning algorithms with improved
performance guarantees. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations to elucidate
our theoretical results and compare the performance of different algorithms.
Our findings reveal that under the Pull model, waiting does not necessarily
lead to aging; waiting for more than one response can often significantly
reduce the AoI and improve the AoI-based utility in most scenarios.Comment: 15 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1704.0484
The Effects of Electricity Production on Industrial Development and Sustainable Economic Growth: A VAR Analysis for BRICS Countries
This study aims to evaluate the effect of electricity production on industrial development and sustainable economic growth. In this context, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), countries which have the highest increase in electricity production in the period of 2000–2018, are included in the scope of this study. Annual data of these variables in the period of 1991–2018 are used and three different models are created by using Vector Auto Regression (VAR) methodology. The findings state that electricity production in BRICS countries has a positive effect on both industrial production and sustainable economic growth. Hence, electricity production needs to be increased for them. For this purpose, it is important to encourage investors with tax advantages, location orientation and financing. Moreover, BRICS countries should give importance to renewable energy investments in order to increase electricity production. These issues have a contributing effect to sustainable economic growth
The effects of electricity production on industrial development and sustainable economic growth: a VAR analysis for BRICS countries
This study aims to evaluate the effect of electricity production on industrial development and sustainable economic growth. In this context, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), countries which have the highest increase in electricity production in the period of 2000-2018, are included in the scope of this study. Annual data of these variables in the period of 1991-2018 are used and three different models are created by using Vector Auto Regression (VAR) methodology. The findings state that electricity production in BRICS countries has a positive effect on both industrial production and sustainable economic growth. Hence, electricity production needs to be increased for them. For this purpose, it is important to encourage investors with tax advantages, location orientation and financing. Moreover, BRICS countries should give importance to renewable energy investments in order to increase electricity production. These issues have a contributing effect to sustainable economic growth.Philosophy and Social Science Plan Project of Henan Province, Chin
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