Fast-Convergent Learning-aided Control in Energy Harvesting Networks

MaRDI QIDQ6260124zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Longbo Huang

Publication date 19 March 2015

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel learning-aided energy management scheme ($mathttLEM$) for multihop energy harvesting networks. Different from prior works on this problem, our algorithm explicitly incorporates information learning into system control via a step called emph{perturbed dual learning}. $mathttLEM$ does not require any statistical information of the system dynamics for implementation, and efficiently resolves the challenging energy outage problem. We show that $mathttLEM$ achieves the near-optimal $[O(epsilon),O(log(1/epsilon{)}^2)]$ utility-delay tradeoff with an $O(1/epsilo{n}^{1-c/2})$ energy buffers ($cin(0,1)$). More interestingly, $mathttLEM$ possesses a emph{convergence time} of $O(1/epsilo{n}^{1-c/2}+1/epsilo{n}^c)$, which is much faster than the $Theta(1/epsilon)$ time of pure queue-based techniques or the $Theta(1/epsilo{n}^2)$ time of approaches that rely purely on learning the system statistics. This fast convergence property makes $mathttLEM$ more adaptive and efficient in resource allocation in dynamic environments. The design and analysis of $mathttLEM$ demonstrate how system control algorithms can be augmented by learning and what the benefits are. The methodology and algorithm can also be applied to similar problems, e.g., processing networks, where nodes require nonzero amount of contents to support their actions.

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