Optimize the Age of Useful Information in Edge-assisted Energy-harvesting Sensor Networks
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
2.1 Energy-harvesting Sensor Networks
2.2 Data Collection in Energy-harvesting Sensor Networks
2.3 Age of Information
3 Problem Description
Symbol | Meaning |
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\(V=\lbrace 1,2,\ldots ,n\rbrace\) | A set of energy-harvesting nodes (EH nodes) |
\(S=\lbrace n+1,\ldots ,n+m\rbrace\) | A set of edge servers |
\(\mathbf {O}=\lbrace o_1,\ldots ,o_H\rbrace\) | A set of targets |
\(\mathbf {T}\) | The monitoring duration |
\(\mathcal {C}(M)\) | A remote cloud with a data analyzing engine M |
\(\mathbf {N}(V, S, \mathbf {O}, \mathbf {T}, \mathcal {C}(M))\) | An edge-assisted energy-harvesting sensor network |
\(r_s, r_c\) | The sensing and communication radius of each EH node |
B | The capacity of the supercapacitor in each EH node |
\(\mu _i(t)\) | The energy harvested by node i at time t |
\(B_i(t)\) | The energy kept by node i at time t |
\(\varepsilon _i(t)\) | The energy consumed by i during time slot t |
\(\varepsilon ^T\) | The energy consumed by transmitting one data packet |
\(D_i(t)\) | Data stored in EH node i at the beginning of time slot t |
\(O_i\) | The set of targets within EH node i’s sensing range |
\(d(O_i,t)\) | The data generated by targets in \(O_i\) at time slot t |
\([i,j,\bar{D}_i(t),t]\) | EH node i will transmit dataset \(\bar{D}_i(t)\) to edge server j at time t |
\(\mathbf {D}\) | A data collection |
\(S_N(t)\) | The snapshot of time slot t |
\(\delta\) | The threshold indicating the similarity between each pair of targets |
\(\bar{S}_N(t)\) | The useful dataset of time slot t |
\(\mathbf {S}(\mathbf {D}, t), \mathbf {S}(\mathbf {D})\) | The set of all useful datasets from 0 to t and the end of monitoring |
\(A_{\mathbf {D}}(t)\) | The AoUI at time slot t |
3.1 Network Model
3.2 Energy Model
3.3 Data Collection Model
3.4 Problem Definition
3.4.1 Data Usefulness.
3.4.2 Age of Useful Information.
3.4.3 The Min-AoUI Problem.
4 Minimize AoUI in S-E-EHNs
4.1 Upper Bound and Lower Bound of AoUI
4.2 Approximated Algorithm for Min-AoUI-S
4.3 Performance Analyzing
4.3.1 Time Complexity.
4.3.2 Approximation Ratio.
5 Minimize AoUI in M-E-EHNs
5.1 Upper Bound and Lower Bound of AoUI
5.2 Approximated Algorithm for Min-AoUI-M
5.3 Performance Analyzing
6 Experiment
6.1 Simulation Settings
6.2 The Impact of Different Parameters
6.2.1 The Impact of the Length of \(\mathbf {T}\) .
6.2.2 The Impact of \(\mu _{min}\) .
6.2.3 The Impact of \(\alpha\) .
6.2.4 The Impact of the Number of Nodes.
6.2.5 The Impact of \(\varepsilon ^T\) .
6.2.6 The Impact of the Initial Energy.
6.2.7 Discussion.
6.3 Comparison with the SOTA
7 Conclusion
Appendix
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