Timely and Energy-Efficient Multi-Step Update Processing
Vishakha Ramani, Ivan Seskar, Roy D. Yates

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the Age of Information in multi-step processing systems, modeling parallel and series setups, and proposes optimal service rate strategies to balance age performance and energy consumption.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive analysis of AoI in multi-step systems and formulates an optimization for service rates considering power constraints.
Findings
Identifies wasted power in parallel and series setups due to processing inefficiencies.
Provides optimal service rate solutions to minimize AoI under power budgets.
Highlights the age-power trade-off in multi-step update systems.
Abstract
This work explores systems where source updates require multiple sequential processing steps. We model and analyze the Age of Information (AoI) performance of various system designs under both parallel and series server setups. In parallel setups, each processor executes all computation steps with multiple processors working in parallel, while in series setups, each processor performs a specific step in sequence. In practice, processing faster is better in terms of age but it also consumes more power. We identify the occurrence of wasted power in these setups, which arises when processing efforts do not lead to a reduction in age. This happens when a fresher update finishes first in parallel servers or when a server preempts processing due to a fresher update from preceding server in series setups. To address this age-power trade-off, we formulate and solve an optimization problem to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCloud Computing and Resource Management · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
