CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

• Main Authors: HARADA, Shigeaki, SUZUKI, Akito
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.04.2022
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A control apparatus that dynamically allocates a virtual network for providing a network service to a physical network through deep reinforcement learning, includes: observation means for receiving input of network configuration information regarding the physical network, network observation information indicating an amount of physical resource of the physical network, and user demand information indicating an amount of demand for the physical resource generated due to a communication action of a user terminal for the network service, and observing a state st at a time t; allocation means for selecting an action at to change allocation of the virtual network to the physical network in accordance with a policy n in the state st; reward calculation means for calculating a reward rt+1 based on a state st+1 to which the state st has transitioned due to the action at; and learning means for learning the policy n using the reward rt+1.