Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Age of Information in a Decentralized Network of Parallel Queues with
  Routing and Packets Losses   The paper deals with Age of Information (AoI) in a network of multiple
sources and parallel queues with buffering capabilities, preemption in service
and losses in served packets. The queues do not communicate between each other
and the packets are dispatched through the queues according to a predefined
probabilistic routing. By making use of the Stochastic Hybrid System (SHS)
method, we provide a derivation of the average AoI of a system of two parallel
queues (with and without buffer capabilities) and compare the results with
those of a single queue. We show that known results of packets delay in Queuing
Theory do not hold for the AoI. Unfortunately, the complexity of computing the
average AoI using the SHS method increases highly with the number of queues. We
therefore provide an upper bound of the average AoI in a system of an arbitrary
number of M/M/1/(N+1) queues and show its tightness in various regimes. This
upper bound allows providing a tight approximation of the average AoI with a
very low complexity. We then provide a game framework that allows each source
to determine its best probabilistic routing decision. By using Mean Field
Games, we provide an analysis of the routing game framework, propose an
efficient iterative method to find the routing decision of each source and
prove its convergence to the desired equilibrium.

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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: eess