Title
Transfer Reinforcement Learning Aided Distributed Network Slicing Optimization in Industrial IoT
Abstract
With the growth of the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the emergence of new applications, satisfying distinct QoS in the same physical network becomes more challenging. Recently, with the advance of network functions virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, the network slicing technique has emerged as a promising solution. It can divide a physical network into multiple virtual networks, therefore providing different network services. In this article, to meet distinct QoS in industrial IoT, we design a network slicing architecture over the SDN-based long-range wide area network. The SDN controller can dynamically split the network into multiple virtual networks according to different business requirements. On this basis, we proposed a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) based slice optimization algorithm. It enables LoRa gateways to intelligently configure slice parameters (e.g., transmission power and spreading factor) to improve the slice performance in terms of QoS, energy efficiency, and reliability. In addition, to accelerate the training process across multiple LoRa gateways, we leverage the transfer learning framework and design a transfer learning-based multiagent DDPG algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TII.2021.3132136
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Industrial Internet of Things (IoT),multiagent reinforcement learning,network slicing,transfer learning
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1551-3203
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianle Mai1273.43
Haipeng Yao214317.59
Ni Zhang3101.81
Wenji He411.03
Dong Guo510.69
Mohsen Guizani66456557.44