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Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection

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Zhang, X; Chen, S; Im, Y; Gorlatova, M; Ha, S; Joe-Wong, C
Published in: Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
October 1, 2019

Today's Internet must support applications with increasingly dynamic and heterogeneous connectivity requirements, such as video streaming and the Internet of Things. Yet current network management practices generally rely on pre-specified flow configurations, which cannot cover all possible scenarios. In this work, we instead propose a model-free learning approach to automatically optimize the policies for heterogeneous network flows. This approach is attractive as no existing comprehensive models quantify how different policy choices affect flow performance under dynamically changing network conditions. We extend multi-armed bandit frameworks to propose new online learning algorithms for protocol selection, addressing the challenge of policy configurations affecting the performance of multIPle flows sharing the same network resources. This performance coupling limits the scalability and optimality of existing online learning algorithms. We theoretically prove that our algorithm achieves a sublinear regret and demonstrate its optimality and scalability through data-driven simulations.

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Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP

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1092-1648

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October 1, 2019

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2019-October
 

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Zhang, X., Chen, S., Im, Y., Gorlatova, M., Ha, S., & Joe-Wong, C. (2019). Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection. In Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP (Vol. 2019-October). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888100
Zhang, X., S. Chen, Y. Im, M. Gorlatova, S. Ha, and C. Joe-Wong. “Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection.” In Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP, Vol. 2019-October, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888100.
Zhang X, Chen S, Im Y, Gorlatova M, Ha S, Joe-Wong C. Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection. In: Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP. 2019.
Zhang, X., et al. “Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection.” Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP, vol. 2019-October, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888100.
Zhang X, Chen S, Im Y, Gorlatova M, Ha S, Joe-Wong C. Towards automated network management: Learning the optimal protocol selection. Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP. 2019.

Published In

Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP

DOI

ISSN

1092-1648

Publication Date

October 1, 2019

Volume

2019-October