Age of information distribution under dynamic service preemption

Abstract: Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as an important quality-of-service measure for applications that prioritize delivery of the freshest information, e.g., virtual or augmented reality over mobile devices and wireless sensor networks used in the control of cyber-physical systems. We derive the Laplace transform of the stationary AoI for the M/GI/1/2 system with a "dynamic" service preemption and pushout policy depending on the existing service time of the in-service message. Thus, our system generalizes both the static M/GI/1/2 queue-pushout system without service preemption and the M/GI/1/1 bufferless system with service preemption - two systems considered to provide very good AoI performance. Based on our analysis, for a service-time distribution that is a mixture of deterministic and exponential, we numerically show that the dynamic policy has lower mean AoI than that of these two static policies and also that of the well studied M/GI/1/1 blocking system.