Reinforcement Q-learning enabled energy-efficient service function chain provisioning in multi-domain networks

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Pubblicato in:Peer-To-Peer Networking and Applications vol. 18, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 58
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Springer Nature B.V.
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Abstract:Network function virtualization (NFV) technology is an efficient way to address the increasing difficulty of provisioning and managing network services. However, NFV-related service function chaining (SFC) deployment in multi-domain networks remains challenging, and there is still room for performance improvement. This paper investigates many heuristic algorithms in the same field and proposes a new method for dynamic SFC deployment in a multi-domain network. In our study, we combine a heuristic algorithm with reinforcement learning and divide the complex problem into several parts. This algorithm efficiently gives the SFC deployment scheme in the multi-domain network with subdomain privacy protection requirements and considers the energy savings of the multi-domain networks. Compared with the existing approach, the proposed algorithm has superiorities in terms of deployment success ratio, deployment profit, time efficiency, and energy consumption.
ISSN:1936-6442
1936-6450
DOI:10.1007/s12083-024-01861-1
Fonte:Science Database