Optimal Scheduling Policy for Spatio-temporally Dependent Observations using Age-of-Information

This paper proposes an optimal scheduling policy for a remote estimation problem, where sensor observations of two spatio-temporally correlated processes are broadcasted to two remote estimators. At each time instant only a single observation can be communicated. For this purpose, a system scheduler...

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Main Authors: Håkansson, Victor Wattin, Dasanadoddi Venkategowda, Naveen Kumar, Werner, Stefan
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Language:English
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Summary:This paper proposes an optimal scheduling policy for a remote estimation problem, where sensor observations of two spatio-temporally correlated processes are broadcasted to two remote estimators. At each time instant only a single observation can be communicated. For this purpose, a system scheduler determines which sensor measurement is communicated. The scheduler cannot observe measurements, and exploits age-of-information (AoI) to calculate the expected estimation error. We derive an optimal scheduling policy, with AoI as state-variable, that minimizes the average mean squared error for an infinite time horizon. The obtained policy yields a periodic scheduling of the sensor measurements, and we show that the AoI for the process with the largest marginal variance does not exceed one.
ISSN:1146-1152