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Area of Science:

  • Information Theory
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Statistical Signal Processing

Background:

  • Information transfer measures like KL divergence are vital for analyzing big data.
  • Small probability events often contain critical information in data transfer.
  • Existing measures may not adequately capture the importance of these rare events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel information transfer measure focusing on message importance from small probability events.
  • To analyze the performance and applications of this new measure in big data contexts.
  • To address limitations in current information transfer metrics for big data.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the Message Importance Transfer Measure (MITM).
  • Analysis of MITM's robustness in measuring information distance.
  • Introduction of message importance transfer capacity and its upper bound.
  • Application of MITM to queue length selection in mobile edge computing.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the robustness of MITM in quantifying information distance.
  • Established a message importance transfer capacity, providing bounds for disturbed information transfer.
  • Successfully applied MITM to optimize queue length selection in mobile edge computing.

Conclusions:

  • MITM provides a significant advancement in measuring information transfer, particularly for small probability events.
  • The measure offers robust performance and diverse applications in big data analytics and mobile edge computing.
  • This work contributes a valuable tool for understanding and optimizing complex information systems.