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Paper IDN.8.3
Paper Title Partial Updates: Losing Information for Freshness
Authors Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland, United States
Session N.8: Timely Updates
Presentation Lecture
Track Networking and Network Coding
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Abstract We consider an information updating system where a source produces updates as requested by a transmitter. The transmitter further processes these updates in order to generate \emph{partial updates}, which have smaller information compared to the original updates, to be sent to a receiver. We study the problem of generating partial updates, and finding their corresponding real-valued codeword lengths, in order to minimize the average age experienced by the receiver, while maintaining a desired level of mutual information between the original and partial updates. This problem is NP hard. We relax the problem and develop an alternating minimization based iterative algorithm that generates a pmf for the partial updates, and the corresponding age-optimal real-valued codeword length for each update. We observe that there is a tradeoff between the attained average age and the mutual information between the original and partial updates.

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2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

11-16 July 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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