Fast and low-complexity reinforcement learning for delay-sensitive energy harvesting wireless visual sensing systems

Niloofar Toorchi, Jacob Chakareski, Nicholas Mastronarde

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider an energy challenged remote sensor transmitting latency-sensitive imagery data over a time-varying channel. The sensor harvests energy from the environment and hence efficient energy consumption is of great importance. In this paper, we aim to find the optimal transmission scheduling and power management policies that maximize the available energy for future transmissions while meeting a queuing delay constraint. We formulate this problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and propose a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to solve it online. Our experiments show that the proposed algorithm achieves comparable performance to a state-of-the-art RL algorithm, but at much lower complexity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1804-1808
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399616
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 3 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Sep 25 2016Sep 28 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Other

Other23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period9/25/169/28/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

Keywords

  • Energy harvesting
  • Latency-sensitive remote sensing
  • Markov decision process
  • Reinforcement learning

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