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Record W4417438744 · doi:10.1109/tccn.2025.3645402

AoI Minimization for WP-IoT With PDQN-Based Hybrid Offline/Online Learning: A Joint Scheduling and Transmission Design Approach

2025· article· en· W4417438744 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAge of Information Optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsScheduling (production processes)Markov decision processPerformance metricParameterized complexityJob shop schedulingMinificationBenchmark (surveying)Online algorithmReinforcement learning

Abstract

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Age of information (AoI), quantifying the freshness of status information, is a vital performance metric for monitoring Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Transmission scheduling serves as a key technique for improving AoI performance. Meanwhile, the transmission parameter, e.g. data rate, will also influence the AoI performance. In this work, we propose a novel joint scheduling and transmission rate design approach to improve the AoI performance of wireless-powered IoT (WP-IoT) networks. Specifically, our design jointly optimizes sensor scheduling and blocklength selection decisions to minimize the expected sum AoI (ES-AoI). We formulate the joint design problem into a parameterized action Markov decision process (PAMDP). Considering the hybrid discrete-continuous action space of the resulting PAMDP, we employ parameterized deep <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Q</i>-network (PDQN) and double PDQN (DPDQN) algorithms to learn the optimal joint scheduling and blocklength selection (JSBS) policy during offline training. To mitigate model inaccuracies and environmental variations, we further develop a computationally efficient PDQN-based online tuning algorithm that fine-tunes the offline-trained JSBS policy during online operation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed JSBS policy significantly enhances ES-AoI performance compared to fixed-blocklength scheduling and benchmark block-length selection policies. Furthermore, the JSBS policy trained with PDQN achieves performance close to that of DPDQN while surpassing standard deep reinforcement learning (DRL) training algorithms. Notably, the PDQN-based online tuning algorithm effectively reduces the ES-AoI by up to 30% compared to the untuned policy.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.536
Threshold uncertainty score0.892

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it