Title
Proposal and Investigation of a Convolutional and LSTM Neural Network for the Cost-Aware Resource Prediction in Softwarized Networks
Abstract
Resource prediction algorithms have been recently proposed in Network Function Virtualization architectures. A prediction-based resource allocation is characterized by higher operation costs due to: (i) Resource underestimate that leads to quality of service degradation; (ii) used cloud resource over allocation when a resource overestimate occurs. To reduce such a cost, we propose a cost-aware prediction algorithm able to minimize the sum of the two cost components. The proposed prediction solution is based on a convolutional and Long Short Term Memory neural network to handle the spatial and temporal correlations of the need processing capacities. We compare in a real network and traffic scenario the proposed technique to a traditional one in which the aim is to exactly predict the needed processing capacity. We show how the proposed solution allows for cost advantages in the order of 20%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/fi13120316
FUTURE INTERNET
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Network Function Virtualization, computing resources, machine learning, long short term memory, convolutional network
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
12
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincenzo Eramo100.34
Francesco Valente200.34
Tiziana Catena311.76
Francesco Giacinto Lavacca4614.89