Abstract
This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) communication
network, where UAV operate as an aerial mobile relay between a source
and a destination of the network. To capture the “timeliness” of the
received information at the destination node, a new performance metric
named age of information (AoI) is considered. In addition, a short
packet communication scheme maintains low latency in the proposed UAV
wireless communication system. The finite block-length theory
investigates the performances of short packet communications scheme in
the UAV-assisted wireless communications system. In this paper, the
Average Age of Information (AAoI) is estimated by applying the
Stochastic Hybrid Systems (SHS) model. The SHS model comprises discrete
states represents events that reset the AoI process and continuously
dynamics that represent linearly growing age processes. Finally, a
closed-form expression for the AAoI of the proposed UAV wireless
communication system is derived and it can be used to estimate the
optimal altitude, block length and other parameters.