提出对抗测试框架CCLab,评估各类拥塞控制算法在恶劣条件下的鲁棒性。
CCLab: Adversarial Testing of Learning- and Non-Learning-Based Congestion Controllers

- 用强化学习生成有界的输入或环境扰动,模拟真实场景下的攻击
- 学习型拥塞控制器在对抗测试中表现优于传统人工设计算法
- 生成的对抗数据可训练更鲁棒的拥塞控制器,适用于网络优化研究者
拥塞控制算法对网络性能至关重要,但其在极端条件下的鲁棒性尚未充分理解。尽管近期学习型拥塞控制算法在受控环境中表现出色,但在输入信号被污染或环境系统性挑战时,与传统算法的对比尚不清晰。本文提出CCLab,一个用于系统评估学习型与非学习型拥塞控制算法鲁棒性的对抗测试框架。该框架包含一个强化学习(RL)驱动的对抗智能体,与拥塞控制策略形成闭环,分别在特征层(输入信号)和环境层(外部网络条件)生成有界扰动,并通过显式约束保持真实性。利用此框架,我们在特征级和环境级对抗条件下对比了两类算法。结果表明,两者均在对抗测试中性能下降,但学习型算法总体上更鲁棒。最后,我们证明生成的对抗轨迹可用于训练出在挑战性和正常条件下均优于现有学习型算法的更鲁棒拥塞控制器。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Congestion controllers (CCs) are critical to network performance, and yet their robustness under adverse conditions remains insufficiently understood. While recent learning-based CCs have demonstrated strong performance in controlled environments, it is unclear how they compare to traditional CCs when controllers' input signals are corrupted or when environmental conditions become systematically challenging. In this paper, we introduce CCLab, an adversarial testing framework for systematically evaluating the robustness of both learning-based and non-learning-based CCs. CCLab includes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based adversarial agent that operates in a closed loop with the congestion control policy, generating bounded perturbations either on input signals (feature-level) or on external network conditions (environment-level), while preserving realism through explicit constraints. Using this framework, we compare learning-based CCs with non-learning-based CCs under both feature-level and environment-level adversarial conditions. While both types of CCs suffer from performance degradation under adversarial testing, we find that learning-based CCs, in general, are more robust than traditional human-designed algorithms. Finally, we show that our adversarial traces can be used to train more robust CCs that outperform existing learning-based CCs under both challenging and normal conditions.
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