The Cost of Delay in Status Updates and their Value: Non-linear Ageing

12/21/2018
by   Antzela Kosta, et al.
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We consider a status update communication system consisting of a source-destination link. A stochastic process is observed at the source, where samples are extracted at random time instances, and delivered to the destination, thus, providing status updates for the source. In this paper, we expand the concept of information ageing by introducing the cost of update delay (CoUD) metric to characterize the cost of having stale information at the destination. The CoUD captures the freshness of the information at the destination and can be used to reflect the information structure of the source. Moreover, we introduce the value of information of update (VoIU) metric that captures the reduction of CoUD upon reception of an update. Our results indicate that the performance of CoUD differs depending on the cost assigned per time unit however the optimal policy remains the same. When it comes to the VoIU the performance difference appears only when the cost increases non-linearly with time. The study illustrates the importance of the newly introduced variants of age, furthermore supported in the case of VoIU by its tractability.

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