Routing Strategy for SDN Large Flow Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

With the expansion of network scale, traditional routing strategies in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) have difficulty adapting to fast traffic variability. The large flow in the network occupies 80% of the network traffic. An unreasonable schedule of the large flow will lead to the emergence of bottleneck links and reduce the network performance. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a different routing method, called Routing Strategy for SDN Large Flow Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (RSDRL). Considering the links in the network that can carry large flow are limited, RSDRL can schedule large flow firstly and generate routing strategies adaptively. At the same time, in order to avoid the occurrence of congestion, RSDRL quantifies the degree of congestion in the network to implement routing. Experiments show that the proposed model has better Quality of Service (QoS) performance under the test traffic, realizing a reasonable schedule of traffic.