动态分配数据流速率,提升车载网络下的传输效率与视频流畅度。
Deep Adaptive Rate Allocation in Volatile Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
- 用Transformer预测链路状态,结合强化学习动态分配各路径流量。
- 在中等波动场景下,文件传输时间比现有方法减少23%以上。
- 适合高移动性场景,如车载网络,尤其优化视频流的缓冲表现。
现代多接入5G+网络为移动终端提供额外容量,提升了网络稳定性和性能。然而,在车辆等高度移动环境中,维持多接入连接仍具挑战性。无线链路质量的快速波动常常超过现有多路径调度器和传输层协议的响应速度。本文提出一种基于Transformer的路径状态预测与新型多路径拆分调度器Deep Adaptive Rate Allocation (DARA),通过深度强化学习引擎动态计算各可用路径上的最优拥塞窗口比例,实现数据在路径间的智能分配。采用六组件归一化奖励函数,通过加权冲突解决机制驱动DQN策略,消除传统反应式调度器的观测-响应延迟。性能评估基于Mininet的多路径数据报拥塞控制协议测试平台,使用车载环境中的用户轨迹数据。实验结果表明,在中等波动轨迹下,DARA相较学习型调度器实现更优的文件传输时间降低;对于带缓冲视频流,所有测试条件下均保持更高分辨率。在具有亚秒级缓冲约束的突发场景下,DARA显著减少重缓冲次数,而当前最先进调度器则接近持续卡顿。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modern multi-access 5G+ networks provide mobile terminals with additional capacity, improving network stability and performance. However, in highly mobile environments such as vehicular networks, supporting multi-access connectivity remains challenging. The rapid fluctuations of wireless link quality often outpace the responsiveness of existing multipath schedulers and transport-layer protocols. This paper addresses this challenge by integrating Transformer-based path state forecasting with a new multipath splitting scheduler called Deep Adaptive Rate Allocation (DARA). The proposed scheduler employs a deep reinforcement learning engine to dynamically compute optimal congestion window fractions on available paths, determining data allocation among them. A six-component normalised reward function with weight-mediated conflict resolution drives a DQN policy that eliminates the observation-reaction lag inherent in reactive schedulers. Performance evaluation uses a Mininet-based Multipath Datagram Congestion Control Protocol testbed with traces from mobile users in vehicular environments. Experimental results demonstrate that DARA achieves better file transfer time reductions compared to learning-based schedulers under moderate-volatility traces. For buffered video streaming, resolution improvements are maintained across all tested conditions. Under controlled burst scenarios with sub-second buffer constraints, DARA achieves substantial rebuffering improvements whilst state-of-the-art schedulers exhibit near-continuous stalling.
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