Abstract
In satellite-based Internet of Things (S-IoT) system, the timely status updating of terrestrial sensing user equipments (UEs) to satellite could be hampered by the long propagation delay, especially in massive machine type communications (mMTC). To guarantee the information freshness in S-IoT, a new performance indicator called age of information (AoI) is exploited to analyze the average AoI (AAoI) in the overload case of mMTC, and a grant free age-optimal (GFAO) random access protocol is proposed to lower the AAoI. Specifically, the closed-form expression of AAoI is derived by tracing the instantaneous AoI evolution of each UE through Markov analysis. Then, the proposed GFAO random access protocol is proved to achieve a minimum AAoI and a maximum throughput in S-IoT, by adjusting the number of access time slots in each transmission frame in the overload case of mMTC. Extensive simulations are conducted to validate the theoretical analysis, and show that there exists different optimal value of access time slots in system load region from 0.2 to 3, which can minimize AAoI and maximize throughput in the proposed GFAO random access protocol.
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