Impact of hostile interference on information freshness: A game approach

Abstract

For time critical updates, it is desirable to maintain the freshness of the received information. We address the impact of hostile interference on information freshness by formulating a non-zero-sum two-player game, in which one player is the transmitter aiming to maintain the freshness of the information updates it sends to its receiver, and the other player is the interferer aiming to prevent this. The strategy of a player is the power level transmitted by that player. We then derive the equilibria for both Nash and Stackelberg strategies. We show that both players have the same power cost at Nash equilibrium. In addition, the Stackelberg strategy dominates the Nash strategy, i.e., the Stackelberg utility function exceeds the Nash utility function.