Multi-agent Congestion Control for High-Speed Networks Using Reinforcement Co-learning.

Autor: Wang, Jun, Liao, Xiaofeng, Yi, Zhang, Hwang, Kaoshing, Hsiao, Mingchang, Wu, Chengshong, Tan, Shunwen
Zdroj: Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2005; 2005, p379-384, 6p
Abstrakt: This paper proposes an adaptive reinforcement co-learning method for solving congestion control problems on high-speed networks. Conventional congestion control scheme regulates source rate by monitoring queue length restricted to a predefined threshold. However, the difficulty of obtaining complete statistics on input traffic to a network. As a result, it is not easy to accurately determine the effective thresholds for high-speed networks. We proposed a simple and robust Co-learning Multi-agent Congestion Controller (CMCC), which consists of two subsystems: a long-term policy evaluator and a short-term rate selector incorporated with a co-learning reinforcement signal to solve the problem. The well-trained controllers can adaptively take correct actions to regulate source flow under time-varying environments. Simulation results showed the proposed approach can promote the system utilization and decrease packet losses simultaneously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index