Minimizing Age in a Multihop Wireless Network

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Abstract

Age of Information (AoI) of packets in a network give a sense of the ‘freshness’ of the information. Applications often require packets to be delivered before they age too much. The talk will discuss a scheduling algorithm designed to transmit packets across the network while meeting age requirements of multiple flows, simultaneously. The algorithm uses a packet dropping rule and a slot wise optimization, which can also be implemented in a distributed fashion. It is seen to perform well, and brings the age close to a theoretical lower bound.

Ashok Krishnan K. S.

Ashok Krishnan K.S. recently completed his Ph.D. from the Department of ECE, IISc. His research interests are in the areas of wireless networks, communications and queueing.