Reinforcement learning for communication load balancing: approaches and challenges

D Wu, J Li, A Ferini, YT Xu, M Jenkin, S Jang… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The amount of cellular communication network traffic has increased dramatically in recent
years, and this increase has led to a demand for enhanced network performance …

Software Defined Wide Area Networks: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

A Navarro, R Canonico, A Botta - 2023 IEEE 9th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is rapidly becoming an attractive solution
for enterprise networks as it offers several benefits such as cost efficiency, increased …

Scalable reinforcement learning for dynamic overlay selection in SD-WANs

A Botta, R Canonico, A Navarro… - 2023 IFIP Networking …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SD-WAN promises distributed enterprises to satisfy their dynamic communication
requirements over the public Internet with a substantial cost reduction and enhanced …

Towards safe load balancing based on control barrier functions and deep reinforcement learning

L Dinh, PTA Quang, J Leguay - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.05525, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have recently made significant strides in
improving network performance. Nonetheless, their practical use is still limited in the …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive overlay selection at the SD-WAN edges: A reinforcement learning approach with networked agents

A Botta, R Canonico, A Navarro, G Stanco, G Ventre - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) have emerged as a promising
solution to address the connectivity demands of modern distributed enterprises. However …

O-DQR: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multihop Routing in Overlay Networks

RA Alliche, R Aparicio-Pardo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of dynamic packet routing in overlay networks using a
fully decentralized MA-DRL. Overlay networks are built by having a virtual topology on top of …

Safe load balancing in software-defined-networking

L Dinh, PTA Quang, J Leguay - Computer Communications, 2025 - Elsevier
High performance, reliability and safety are crucial properties of any Software-Defined-
Networking (SDN) system. Although the use of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) …

Path Planning Model Based on Constrained Policy Iteration

X Zhang, Y Xu, Y Chen, D Li - 2022 41st Chinese Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing severity of traffic congestion, the frequency of traffic emergencies has
also increased. When an emergency occurs, it is necessary to send a large number of …