No Free Lunch: Balancing Learning and Exploitation at the Network Edge
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| author | Mason, Federico Chiariotti, Federico Zanella, Andrea |
| author_facet | Mason, Federico Chiariotti, Federico Zanella, Andrea |
| contents | Over the last few years, the DRL paradigm has been widely adopted for 5G and beyond network optimization because of its extreme adaptability to many different scenarios. However, collecting and processing learning data entail a significant cost in terms of communication and computational resources, which is often disregarded in the networking literature. In this work, we analyze the cost of learning in a resource-constrained system, defining an optimization problem in which training a DRL agent makes it possible to improve the resource allocation strategy but also reduces the number of available resources. Our simulation results show that the cost of learning can be critical when evaluating DRL schemes on the network edge and that assuming a cost-free learning model can lead to significantly overestimating performance. |
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| spellingShingle | No Free Lunch: Balancing Learning and Exploitation at the Network Edge Mason, Federico Chiariotti, Federico Zanella, Andrea Networking and Internet Architecture Over the last few years, the DRL paradigm has been widely adopted for 5G and beyond network optimization because of its extreme adaptability to many different scenarios. However, collecting and processing learning data entail a significant cost in terms of communication and computational resources, which is often disregarded in the networking literature. In this work, we analyze the cost of learning in a resource-constrained system, defining an optimization problem in which training a DRL agent makes it possible to improve the resource allocation strategy but also reduces the number of available resources. Our simulation results show that the cost of learning can be critical when evaluating DRL schemes on the network edge and that assuming a cost-free learning model can lead to significantly overestimating performance. |
| title | No Free Lunch: Balancing Learning and Exploitation at the Network Edge |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11912 |