Network Calculus with Flow Prolongation -- A Feedforward FIFO Analysis enabled by ML

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Autori principali: Geyer, Fabien, Scheffler, Alexander, Bondorf, Steffen
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author Geyer, Fabien
Scheffler, Alexander
Bondorf, Steffen
author_facet Geyer, Fabien
Scheffler, Alexander
Bondorf, Steffen
contents The derivation of upper bounds on data flows' worst-case traversal times is an important task in many application areas. For accurate bounds, model simplifications should be avoided even in large networks. Network Calculus (NC) provides a modeling framework and different analyses for delay bounding. We investigate the analysis of feedforward networks where all queues implement First-In First-Out (FIFO) service. Correctly considering the effect of data flows onto each other under FIFO is already a challenging task. Yet, the fastest available NC FIFO analysis suffers from limitations resulting in unnecessarily loose bounds. A feature called Flow Prolongation (FP) has been shown to improve delay bound accuracy significantly. Unfortunately, FP needs to be executed within the NC FIFO analysis very often and each time it creates an exponentially growing set of alternative networks with prolongations. FP therefore does not scale and has been out of reach for the exhaustive analysis of large networks. We introduce DeepFP, an approach to make FP scale by predicting prolongations using machine learning. In our evaluation, we show that DeepFP can improve results in FIFO networks considerably. Compared to the standard NC FIFO analysis, DeepFP reduces delay bounds by 12.1% on average at negligible additional computational cost.
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spellingShingle Network Calculus with Flow Prolongation -- A Feedforward FIFO Analysis enabled by ML
Geyer, Fabien
Scheffler, Alexander
Bondorf, Steffen
Networking and Internet Architecture
Machine Learning
The derivation of upper bounds on data flows' worst-case traversal times is an important task in many application areas. For accurate bounds, model simplifications should be avoided even in large networks. Network Calculus (NC) provides a modeling framework and different analyses for delay bounding. We investigate the analysis of feedforward networks where all queues implement First-In First-Out (FIFO) service. Correctly considering the effect of data flows onto each other under FIFO is already a challenging task. Yet, the fastest available NC FIFO analysis suffers from limitations resulting in unnecessarily loose bounds. A feature called Flow Prolongation (FP) has been shown to improve delay bound accuracy significantly. Unfortunately, FP needs to be executed within the NC FIFO analysis very often and each time it creates an exponentially growing set of alternative networks with prolongations. FP therefore does not scale and has been out of reach for the exhaustive analysis of large networks. We introduce DeepFP, an approach to make FP scale by predicting prolongations using machine learning. In our evaluation, we show that DeepFP can improve results in FIFO networks considerably. Compared to the standard NC FIFO analysis, DeepFP reduces delay bounds by 12.1% on average at negligible additional computational cost.
title Network Calculus with Flow Prolongation -- A Feedforward FIFO Analysis enabled by ML
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03004