Presentation 2019-09-06
A Study on Fairness of Reinforcement Learning Based Congestion Control
Meguru Yamazaki, Miki Yamamoto,
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Abstract(in English) With fast deployment of high speed wireless access networks, communication environments for Internet accesses have been changing drastically. According to these wide range of network environments, many kinds of TCP congestion control algorithms have been proposed. Each of these TCP versions focuses on specific environment, e.g. wireless loss, and is designed with hard-wired logic, which means there is no universally applicable TCP algorithm. To resolve this technical problem related to hard-wired logic, several machine learning approaches for TCP congestion control has been proposed, e.g. QTCP. In this paper, we show that QTCP has technical problem of unfair condition due to a selfish behavior of machine learning approach. We propose a new QTCP algorithm which is based on AIMD(Additive Increase and Multiplicative Decrease). Our performance evaluation results show that our proposed improvement for QTCP shows good fairness behavior without degradation of throughput or queue length characteristics.
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Keyword(in English) Congestion Control / Fairness / Reinforcemcent Learning
Paper # NS2019-91
Date of Issue 2019-08-29 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee NS / IN / CS
Conference Date 2019/9/5(2days)
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Place (in English) Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ.
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Topics (in English) Session management (SIP/IMS), Interoperability/Standardization, NGN/NwGN/Future networks, Cloud/Data center networks, SDN (OpenFlow, etc.)/NFV, IPv6, Machine learning, etc.
Chair Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT) / Hidenori Nakazato(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Jun Terada(NTT)
Secretary Akihiro Nakao(Osaka Pref Univ.) / Kenji Ishida(NTT) / Jun Terada(NTT Communications)
Assistant Shinya Kawano(NTT) / / Kazutaka Hara(NTT) / Hiroyuki Saito(OKI)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Communication Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Study on Fairness of Reinforcement Learning Based Congestion Control
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Congestion Control
Keyword(2) Fairness
Keyword(3) Reinforcemcent Learning
1st Author's Name Meguru Yamazaki
1st Author's Affiliation Kansai University(Kansai Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Miki Yamamoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Kansai University(Kansai Univ.)
Date 2019-09-06
Paper # NS2019-91
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) NS-194
Page pp.pp.13-18(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-08-29 (NS)