Age-Optimal Channel Coding Blocklength for an M/G/1 Queue with HARQ

2018-08-24
Sac, Hakan
Bacinoglu, Tan
Uysal, Elif
Durisi, Giuseppe
We consider a communication system in which a source transmits information updates to a destination node through a binary erasure channel (BEC). When a packet containing an information update, which consists of a fixed number of information bits, arrives at the transmitter, it gets queued in a buffer, to be encoded and sent over the channel. Before transmitting a packet, the transmitter selects a channel coding blocklength n and then uses an automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol, whereby packets that are decoded incorrectly are repeated. The choice of the coding blocklength thus affects the end-to-end status age. However, this dependency is nontrivial since, on the one hand, the duration of a single transmission attempt is directly proportional to n, so the smaller n the better. On the other hand, a smaller value of the blocklength n yields a higher probability of decoding error, which increases the end-toend status age. Employing recent finite-blocklength information-theoretic bounds and approximations on the rate achievable on a BEC for a given blocklength and a given error probability, we study the age-optimal design of this system. We find that for any nontrivial BEC, there exists an optimal blocklength that minimizes the average age and average peak age of information.

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Citation Formats
H. Sac, T. Bacinoglu, E. Uysal, and G. Durisi, “Age-Optimal Channel Coding Blocklength for an M/G/1 Queue with HARQ,” 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32919.