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To reduce the investment on network infrastructure, many online service providers have begun to adopt the shared inter-DataCenter Wide Area Network (inter-DC WAN) that connects different datacenters and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The shared inter-DC WAN accommodates two kinds of traffic, i.e. delay-sensitive ISP-facing traffic and high-throughput inter-DC traffic. Traffic Engineering (TE) in the shared inter-DC WAN should determine the routing paths for all traffic to achieve link load balancing, while select lower-latency egress routers for ISP-facing traffic to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS). Therefore, this paper mainly focuses on jointly optimizing routing paths selection and egress router selection to strike a balance between QoS and link load balancing. Specifically, we first formulate the TE problem in the shared inter-DC WAN as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem. Then, a TED method is proposed to jointly optimize the egress router selection and routing path selection by learning an intelligent agent with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). The learnt agent can self-adaptively and rapidly select the optimal egress routers by considering the utilization-latency balance when traffic demand changes. Finally, we conduct extensive evaluations on Alibaba WAN with real traffic traces to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
ISSN: 2327-4697
Year: 2022
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Page: 2870-2881
6 . 6
JCR@2022
6 . 7 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;
ESI HC Threshold:66
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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WoS CC Cited Count: 2
SCOPUS Cited Count: 2
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 2
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