Reinforcement learning for QoS-guaranteed intelligent routing in Wireless Mesh Networks with heavy traffic load
Thuy‐Van T. Duong, Lê Hữu Bình, Vuong M. Ngo
Abstract
Wireless Mesh Networks is increasingly being applied widely with explosive traffic demand. This leads to a great challenge for traditional routing protocols in ensuring Quality of Service. We propose a QoS-guaranteed intelligent routing algorithm in this paper for WMN with heavy traffic load using reinforcement learning to improve its performance. We build a reward function for the Q-Learning algorithm to choose a route so that the packet delivery ratio is the highest. Concurrently, the learning rate coefficient is flexibly changed to determine constraints of the end-to-end delay. Our performance evaluations show that the proposed algorithm has significantly improved performance compared with other well-known routing algorithms.