• Optical Communication Technology
  • Vol. 48, Issue 3, 7 (2024)
YUAN Shuai1, ZHANG Hui2, CAI Anliang1, and SHEN Jianhua1
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    DOI: 10.13921/j.cnki.issn1002-5561.2024.03.002 Cite this Article
    YUAN Shuai, ZHANG Hui, CAI Anliang, SHEN Jianhua. Specific flow routing selection algorithm based on Self-Attention deep reinforcement learning[J]. Optical Communication Technology, 2024, 48(3): 7 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To effectively mitigate the negative impact of rerouting on the network in traditional traffic engineering mechanisms,this paper proposes a specific flow routing selection algorithm based on Self-Attention deep reinforcement learning, leveraging the global network perspective and management capabilities of software-defined networking, to reroute a small amount of traffic and achieve near-optimal performance. A neural network model with multi-scale fusion attention mechanism is used to extract features of traffic, and a centralized training distributed execution architecture is adopted to make real-time decisions based on the observed network state. The theoretical research and experimental results show that compared with traditional deep reinforcement learning algorithms and heuristic algorithms, the proposed algorithm has significant improvements in average load and end-to-end delay performance.
    YUAN Shuai, ZHANG Hui, CAI Anliang, SHEN Jianhua. Specific flow routing selection algorithm based on Self-Attention deep reinforcement learning[J]. Optical Communication Technology, 2024, 48(3): 7
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