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| author | Debnath, Rubi Zhao, Luxi Steinhorst, Sebastian |
| author_facet | Debnath, Rubi Zhao, Luxi Steinhorst, Sebastian |
| contents | Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) supports multiple traffic types with diverse timing requirements, such as hard real-time (HRT), soft real-time (SRT), and Best Effort (BE) within a single network. To provide varying Quality of Service (QoS) for these traffic types, TSN incorporates different scheduling and shaping mechanisms. However, assigning traffic types to the proper scheduler or shaper, known as Traffic-Type Assignment (TTA), is a known NP-hard problem. Relying solely on domain expertise to make these design decisions can be inefficient, especially in complex network scenarios. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept highlighting the advantages of a learning-based approach to the TTA problem. We formulate an optimization model for TTA in TSN and develop a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) model, called ``TTASelector'', to assign traffic types to TSN flows efficiently. Using synthetic and realistic test cases, our evaluation shows that TTASelector assigns a higher number of traffic types to HRT and SRT flows compared to the state-of-the-art Tabu Search-based metaheuristic method. |
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| spellingShingle | Learning-Based Traffic Classification for Mixed-Critical Flows in Time-Sensitive Networking Debnath, Rubi Zhao, Luxi Steinhorst, Sebastian Networking and Internet Architecture Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) supports multiple traffic types with diverse timing requirements, such as hard real-time (HRT), soft real-time (SRT), and Best Effort (BE) within a single network. To provide varying Quality of Service (QoS) for these traffic types, TSN incorporates different scheduling and shaping mechanisms. However, assigning traffic types to the proper scheduler or shaper, known as Traffic-Type Assignment (TTA), is a known NP-hard problem. Relying solely on domain expertise to make these design decisions can be inefficient, especially in complex network scenarios. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept highlighting the advantages of a learning-based approach to the TTA problem. We formulate an optimization model for TTA in TSN and develop a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) model, called ``TTASelector'', to assign traffic types to TSN flows efficiently. Using synthetic and realistic test cases, our evaluation shows that TTASelector assigns a higher number of traffic types to HRT and SRT flows compared to the state-of-the-art Tabu Search-based metaheuristic method. |
| title | Learning-Based Traffic Classification for Mixed-Critical Flows in Time-Sensitive Networking |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07893 |