Implementation and evaluation of age-aware downlink scheduling policies in communication networks

2021-9-09
Oğuz, Tahir Kerem
As communication systems evolve, advanced perspectives are needed to meet the requirements of emerging applications. The Age of Information metric has taken its place in the literature to examine the information freshness demands of various applications. With the Age of Information perspective, the freshness of information subject to communication is monitored from the destination’s point of view. Within the scope of the thesis, a wireless network with a single transmitter (base station) and multiple receivers was realized using Software Defined Radios (SDRs). The Information Age metric was considered the main performance metric of the network. Low-complexity, age-sensitive scheduling policies were applied and compared with traditional scheduling policies. Then, the Query Age of Information (QAoI) metric, a version of the Age of Information concept suitable for pull-based scenarios, was examined. We modified Age-Aware policies to perform well with respect to QAoI. We modified the SDR testbed to study the performance of pull-based scheduling methods experimentally.

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Citation Formats
T. K. Oğuz, “Implementation and evaluation of age-aware downlink scheduling policies in communication networks,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.