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Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computer Networking

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2021) | Viewed by 5264

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Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 680-749, Korea
Interests: intelligence-defined networking; machine learning; human mobility prediction; opportunistic networking; mobile crowd sensing

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Department of Computer Science, University of Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Hwaseong, Korea
Interests: Big data; Machine learning; Sensor network; Security

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Dear Colleagues,

Over the last decade, there has been a great development in deep learning, which is considered as a promising technology for diverse areas including computer networking. Despite a considerable amount of efforts, applying deep learning technology to computer networking is still at an early stage. For instance, using deep learning to control network resources where multiple heterogeneous networks co-exist has been poorly studied. Additionally, the limitation of deep learning in networking due to lack of available network data has not been sufficiently addressed. Moreover, the high time and space complexity problem of deep reinforcement learning, which is another important research direction of intelligent network control, remains as a major challenge.Through this Special Issue, we aim at assembling high-quality research papers on deep learning and deep reinforcement learning-based computer networking. The Special Issue will be an open platform for researchers to share pioneering ideas and studies.

Prof. Dr. Seokhoon Yoon
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Keywords

  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for network fault detection and prediction
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for co-existing heterogeneous networks control
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for wireless sensor network optimization
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for traffic engineering
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for QoS/QoE management
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for routing in wired and wireless networks
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning based applications using wired/wireless network traces
  • Deep learning, deep reinforcement learning for IoT and UAV networking

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Attacking Wireless Sensor Networks
by Juan Parras, Maximilian Hüttenrauch, Santiago Zazo and Gerhard Neumann
Sensors 2021, 21(12), 4060; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21124060 - 12 Jun 2021
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Recent advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning allow solving increasingly complex problems. In this work, we show how current defense mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks are vulnerable to attacks that use these advances. We use a Deep Reinforcement Learning attacker architecture that allows having [...] Read more.
Recent advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning allow solving increasingly complex problems. In this work, we show how current defense mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks are vulnerable to attacks that use these advances. We use a Deep Reinforcement Learning attacker architecture that allows having one or more attacking agents that can learn to attack using only partial observations. Then, we subject our architecture to a test-bench consisting of two defense mechanisms against a distributed spectrum sensing attack and a backoff attack. Our simulations show that our attacker learns to exploit these systems without having a priori information about the defense mechanism used nor its concrete parameters. Since our attacker requires minimal hyper-parameter tuning, scales with the number of attackers, and learns only by interacting with the defense mechanism, it poses a significant threat to current defense procedures. Full article
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Reliable Service Function Chain Deployment Method Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
by Hua Qu, Ke Wang and Jihong Zhao
Sensors 2021, 21(8), 2733; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21082733 - 13 Apr 2021
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Network function virtualization (NFV) is a key technology to decouple hardware device and software function. Several virtual network functions (VNFs) combine into a function sequence in a certain order, that is defined as service function chain (SFC). A significant challenge is guaranteeing reliability. [...] Read more.
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a key technology to decouple hardware device and software function. Several virtual network functions (VNFs) combine into a function sequence in a certain order, that is defined as service function chain (SFC). A significant challenge is guaranteeing reliability. First, deployment server is selected to place VNF, then, backup server is determined to place the VNF as a backup which is running when deployment server is failed. Moreover, how to determine the accurate locations dynamically with machine learning is challenging. This paper focuses on resource requirements of SFC to measure its priority meanwhile calculates node priority by current resource capacity and node degree, then, a novel priority-awareness deep reinforcement learning (PA-DRL) algorithm is proposed to implement reliable SFC dynamically. PA-DRL determines the backup scheme of each VNF, then, the model jointly utilizes delay, load balancing of network as feedback factors to optimize the quality of service. In the experimental results, resource efficient utilization, survival rate, and load balancing of PA-DRL were improved by 36.7%, 35.1%, and 78.9% on average compared with benchmark algorithm respectively, average delay was reduced by 14.9%. Therefore, PA-DRL can effectively improve reliability and optimization targets compared with other benchmark methods. Full article
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