cellular network traffic scheduling using deep reinforcement … · 2019-03-11 · cellular network...
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CellularNetworkTrafficSchedulingusingDeepReinforcementLearning
SandeepChinchali,et.al.MarcoPavone,SachinKattiStanfordUniversity
AAAI2018
Canwelearn tooptimallymanagecellularnetworks?
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DelaySensitive
Real-timeMobileTraffic
DelayTolerant(DT)Traffic
IoT:Map/SWupdatesPre-fetchedcontent
WhyisIoT/DTtrafficschedulinghard?
IoT
Utilization
AcceptableLimit IoT Contendinggoals• MaxIoT/DTdata• Losstomobiletraffic
• Networklimits
OptimalControl
WhyisIoT/DTtrafficschedulinghard?
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Diversecity-widecellpatterns
Ourcontributions
1. Identifyinefficienciesinrealcellularnetworks4weeks,10diversecellsinDowntownMelbourne,Australia
2. DataDriven,DeepLearningNetworkModelOurlivenetworkexperimentsmatchMDPdynamics
3. AdaptiveRLschedulerFlexiblyrespondstooperatorrewardfunctions
IoTScheduler
NetworkState
IoTrate
WhyDeepLearning?
1. Learntime-variantnetworkdynamics
2. Adapttohigh-levelnetworkoperationgoals
3. Generalizetodiversecells
4. Abundanceofnetworkdata
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RelatedWork
1. DynamicResourceAllocation• Electricitygrid(Reddy2011),calladmission(Marbach 1998),trafficcontrol(Chu2016)
2. Data-drivenOptimalControl+Forecasting• DeepRL(Mnih 2013,Silver2014,Lillicrap 2015)• LSTMnetworks(Hochreiter 1997,Laptev2017,Shi2015)
3. MachineLearningforComputerNetworks• ClusterResourceManagement(Mao2016)• MobileVideoStreaming(Mao2017,Yin2015)
Data-drivenproblemformulation1. NetworkStateSpace2. IoTSchedulerActions3. Time-variantdynamics4. Networkoperatorpolicies
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Networkstate+forecasts
Congestion
Cellefficiency IoTrate
CurrentNetworkState
FullStatewithTemporalFeatures
RLsetup(1):StateSpace
Agent EnvironmentAction
Networkstate
Reward
StochasticForecast(LSTM)
Horizon:DayofT mins
IoTTrafficRate:
IoTVolumeperminute:
Utilizationgain:
RLsetup(2):ActionSpace
Agent EnvironmentAction
Networkstate
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RLsetup(3):TransitionDynamics
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Overallweightedreward
1. IoTtrafficvolume
2. Losstoregularusers
3. Trafficbelownetworklimit
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Goal: FindOptimalOperatorPolicy
What-ifmodel
EvaluationCriteria
1. Robustperformanceondiversecell-daypairs2. Abilitytoexploitbetterforecasts3. Interpretability
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1.RLgeneralizestoseveralcell-daypairs
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Significantgains:• FCCSpectrumAuction(Reardon2016):$4.5Bfor10MHzofspectrum• 14.7%mediangainforα = 2• Significant costsavings[simulated]
2.RLeffectivelyleveragesforecasts
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3a.RLexploitstransientdipsinutilization
ControlledCongestion Utilizationgain
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Conclusion
Modernnetworksareevolving• Delaytoleranttraffic(IoTupdates,pre-fetchedcontent)
Data-drivenoptimalcontrol• LSTMforecasts+RLcontroller• 14.7%simulatedgain->significantsavings
Futurework:• Operationalnetworktests• Decouplepredictionandcontrol
Questions:[email protected]
2.RLeffectivelyleveragesforecasts
Betterforecastsenhanceperformance DiscretizedMDPforofflineoptimal
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