Optimal Age over Erasure Channels
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Publication:6312062
DOI10.1109/TIT.2022.3167601arXiv1901.01573MaRDI QIDQ6312062FDOQ6312062
Authors: Elie Najm, İ. Emre Telatar, Rajai Nasser 
Publication date: 6 January 2019
Abstract: Previous works on age of information and erasure channels have dealt with specific models and computed the average age or average peak age for certain settings. In this paper, given a source that produces a letter every seconds and an erasure channel that can be used every seconds, we ask what is the coding strategy that minimizes the time-average age of information that an observer of the channel output incurs. We first analyze the case where the source alphabet and the channel-input alphabet have the same size. We show that a trivial coding strategy is optimal and a closed form expression for the age can be derived. We then analyze the case where the alphabets have different sizes. We use a random coding argument to bound the average age and show that the average age achieved using random codes converges to the optimal average age of linear block codes as the source alphabet becomes large.
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