Abstract
Data Center Networks (DCN), a core infrastructure of cloud computing, place heavy demands on efficient storage and management of massive data. The data storage scheme, which decides how to assign data to nodes for storage, has a significant impact on the performance of the data center. However, most of the existing solutions focus on where to store the data (i.e., the selection of storage node) but have not considered how to store them (i.e., the traffic management such as routing and transmission rate adjustment). By leveraging the Information-Centric Networks (ICN) architecture, this paper tackles the data storage and traffic management issue in Information-Centric Data Center Networks (ICDCN) based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) method, since RL has been developed as a promising solution to address dynamic network issues. We present a global optimization of joint traffic management and data storage and then solve it by the distributed multi-agent Q-learning. In ICDCN, the data is routed based on the data’s name, which achieves better routing scalability by decoupling the data and its physical location. Compared with IP’s stateless forwarding plane, the stateful forwarding information maintained at every node supports adaptively routing and hop-by-hop traffic control by using the Q-learning method. We evaluate our proposal on an NS-3-based simulator, and the results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce transmission time and increase throughput while achieving load-balanced among servers.
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