How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?

Barakat, Basel; Yassine, Hachem; Keates, Simeon; Wassell, Ian; Arshad, Kamran

Abstract

The Age of information (AoI) was proposed in the literature to quantify the freshness of information. The majority of the work done in this area has theoretically evaluated AoI and its Peak (PAoI). In this paper, a method for obtaining the value of AoI and PAoI from experiments is proposed. We conducted an experiment emulating an M/M/1 queue and used the proposed method to evaluate AoI and PAoI. The values were compared to the expressions presented previously in the literature. Our results show that the proposed method is accurate for the M/M/1 queue. A statistical test was conducted to confirm the reliability of this conclusion.

Citation

Barakat, B., Yassine, H., Keates, S., Wassell, I., & Arshad, K. (2019, May). How to Measure the Average and Peak Age of Information in Real Networks?. Presented at European Wireless 2019, Aarhus, Denmark

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: European Wireless 2019
• Start Date: May 2, 2019
• End Date: May 5, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Sep 16, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISBN: 978-3-8007-4948-5
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2676247
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8835936