Title
Intelligent Latency-Aware Virtual Network Embedding for Industrial Wireless Networks
Abstract
The growing popularity of industrial wireless networks (IWNs) is driven by various applications with stringent timeliness requests. However, the ossification, deep-rooted in the one-application one-network architecture of traditional IWNs, impedes the evolution of IWNs toward smart factory. As a solution, the slice-based network virtualization (NV) breaks the tight coupling between applications and network infrastructure, and thus provides a more flexible and scalable IWN architecture. The application of NV relies on the algorithms that instantiate multiple virtual networks (VNs) on a substrate infrastructure, known as VN embedding (VNE). However, existing VNE algorithms are not necessarily optimal for IWNs due to the absence of QoS-compliant capacity. To this end, so called iVNE, an intelligent latency-aware VNE scheme, is proposed to provide deadline guarantee for various industrial VNs (IVNs), which involves both static embedding and dynamic forwarding. In the static stage, an anypath embedding algorithm is introduced for the new arrival of IVNs so that their resource demands and deadlines can be satisfied with coarse grain. Then, a dynamic anypath forwarding method is incorporated into iVNE to offer intelligent latency sensing via deep <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${Q}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -learning, and thus forwarding adjustments can be made timely to address the dynamic changes of link quality and network workload. The simulation results are provided to demonstrate the learning efficiency as well as the ability of load-balancing through responsive forwarding under dynamic environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/jiot.2019.2900855
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtualization,Wireless networks,Quality of service,Monitoring,Substrates,Virtual machine monitors,Internet of Things
Virtualization,Wireless network,Embedding,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Computer network,Quality of service,Coupling (computer programming),Network virtualization,Scalability,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
5
2327-4662
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingyan Li1135.81
Cai-Lian Chen283198.98
Cunqing Hua3186.70
Xinping Guan42791253.38