How to disturb network reconnaissance: a moving target defense approach based on deep reinforcement learning

T Zhang, C Xu, J Shen, X Kuang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the explosive growth of Internet traffic, large sensitive and valuable information is at risk
of cyber attacks, which are mostly preceded by network reconnaissance. A moving target …

Self-learning multi-objective service coordination using deep reinforcement learning

S Schneider, R Khalili, A Manzoor… - … on Network and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern services consist of interconnected components, eg, microservices in a service mesh
or machine learning functions in a pipeline. These services can scale and run across …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for coordinated multipoint in mobile networks

S Schneider, H Karl, R Khalili… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Macrodiversity is a key technique to increase the capacity of mobile networks. It can be
realized using coordinated multipoint (CoMP), simultaneously connecting users to multiple …

Towards attack-resistant service function chain migration: A model-based adaptive proximal policy optimization approach

T Zhang, C Xu, B Zhang, X Li, X Kuang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network function virtualization (NFV) supports the rapid development of service function
chain (SFC), which efficiently connects a sequence of network virtual function instances …

AcTrak: Controlling a Steerable Surveillance Camera using Reinforcement Learning

A Fahim, E Papalexakis, SV Krishnamurthy… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Steerable cameras that can be controlled via a network, to retrieve telemetries of interest
have become popular. In this paper, we develop a framework called AcTrak, to automate a …

Knowledge Collaboration-Based Resource Allocation in 6G IoT: A Graph Attention RL Approach

Z Huang, FR Yu, J Cai - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In future 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT), users and devices will be divided into
numerous distributed domains with smaller base station coverage due to the utilization of …

Topology-Aware Self-Adaptive Resource Provisioning for Microservices

H Zeng, T Wang, A Li, Y Wu, H Wu… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microservice architecture is a popular technology for deploying services in cloud computing,
with benefits like loose coupling, high fault tolerance, and scalability. The heterogeneous …

Joint Optimization of Microservice Deployment and Routing in Edge via Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning

M Hu, H Wang, X Xu, J He, Y Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing technologies with container-based microservice architectures promise to
provide stable and low-latency services for large-scale and complex edge applications …

Towards Generalizability of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Graphs with Recurrent Message Passing

J Weil, Z Bao, O Abboud, T Meuser - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05027, 2024 - arxiv.org
Graph-based environments pose unique challenges to multi-agent reinforcement learning.
In decentralized approaches, agents operate within a given graph and make decisions …

Dimensioning resources of Network Slices for energy-performance trade-off

W Huang, A Araldo, H Castel-Taleb… - 2022 IEEE Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within network slicing, Virtual Network Embedding has been vastly studied, ie, deciding in
which physical nodes and links to place virtual functions and links. However, the …