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A Reinforcement Learning-Based Admission Control Strategy for Elastic Network Slices


Abstract:

This paper addresses the problem of admission control for elastic network slices that may dynamically adjust provisioned bandwidth levels over time. When admitting new sl...Show More

Abstract:

This paper addresses the problem of admission control for elastic network slices that may dynamically adjust provisioned bandwidth levels over time. When admitting new slice requests, sufficient spare capacity must be reserved to allow existing elastic slices to dynamically increase their bandwidth allocation when needed. We demonstrate a lightweight deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) model to intelligently make ad-mission control decisions for elastic slice requests and inelastic slice requests. This model achieves higher revenue and higher acceptance rates compared to traditional heuristic methods. Due to the lightness of this model, it can be deployed without GPUs. We can also use a relatively small amount of data to train the model and to achieve stable performance. Also, we introduce a Recurrent Neural Network to encode the variable-size environment and train the encoder with the RL model together.
Date of Conference: 07-11 December 2021
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 02 February 2022
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Conference Location: Madrid, Spain

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