Title
Random Access with and without Sensing in Non-Terrestrial Networks for Timely Updates
Abstract
The growing boom in time-critical applications such as remote sensing and monitoring has made low latency of information an important requirement. Age of information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness of information from the receiver side. In this paper, we analyze that multiple sources transmit their status packets to a remote controller for timely updates. Characterized by long transmission distances, satellite networks are commonly using Aloha as a random access protocol by preconceiving channel sensing is low efficient. Yet, for some non-terrestrial networks where the propagation delay is comparable to the transmission time, the performance comparison between Aloha and CSMA requires more detailed consideration. By building the node-centric discrete-time Markov chain, we quantify the performance of Aloha and CSMA on AoI and give the performance break-even point. Only when the ratio of propagation delay to transmission time is larger than this point, Aloha performs better on the timeliness metric. Furthermore, we derive the optimal attempt probability of CSMA to achieve the lowest latency. In the end, simulation results confirmed the validity of the theoretical analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500930
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Age of information, random access, propagation delay, non-terrestrial networks
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuchen Wu100.34
Shaohua Wu24512.63
Lingyan Zhang3104.38
Jiao Jian412841.72
Ning Zhang574459.81
Qinyu Zhang62814.30