Title
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Controller Placement in Software Defined Network
Abstract
Controller placement is a critical problem in Software Defined Network (SDN), which has been identified as a potential approach to achieve a more flexible control and management of the network. To achieve an optimal placement solution, the network characters as well as flow fluctuations should be fully considered, making the problem extraordinary complicated. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has vast potential to obtain suitable results by exploring the solution space, and be adapted to the rapidly fluctuating data flow with the algorithm learning from the feedback generated during exploration. In this paper, we propose a Deep Q-Network (DQN) empowered Dynamic flow Data Driven approach for Controller Placement Problem (D4CPP). D4CPP integrates the historical network data learning into the controller deployment and realtime switch-controller mapping decision, so as to be adapted to the dynamic network environment with flow fluctuations. Specifically, D4CPP takes the flow fluctuation, data latency, and load balance into full consideration, and can reach an optimized balance among these metrics. Extensive simulations show that D4CPP is efficient in SDN system with dynamic flow fluctuating, and outperforms traditional scheme by 13% in latency and 50% in load balance averagely when the latency and the load balance are assigned with the same weight.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS50562.2020.9162977
IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
deep reinforcement,software defined network,flexible control,optimal placement solution,network characters,flow fluctuation,problem extraordinary,solution space,rapidly fluctuating data flow,Deep Q-Network,Dynamic flow Data Driven approach,Controller Placement Problem,D4CPP,historical network data,controller deployment,realtime switch-controller mapping decision,dynamic network environment,data latency,load balance,dynamic flow fluctuating
Conference
2159-4228
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8696-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiwen Wu110.68
Sipei Zhou230.79
Yunkai Wei342.49
Supeng Leng470267.45