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Proactive and AoI-aware Failure Recovery for Stateful NFV-enabled Zero-Touch 6G Networks: Model-Free DRL Approach
Amirhossein Shaghaghi, Abolfazl Zakeri, Nader Mokari, Mohammad Reza Javan, Mohammad Behdadfar, Eduard A Jorswieck
In this paper, we propose a Zero-Touch, deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based Proactive Failure Recovery framework called ZT-PFR for stateful network function virtualization (NFV)-enabled networks. To this end, we formulate a resource-efficient optimization problem minimizing the network cost function including resource cost and wrong decision penalty. As a solution, we propose state-of-the-art DRL-based methods such as soft-actor-critic (SAC) and proximal-policy-optimization (PPO). In addition, to train and test our DRL agents, we propose a novel impending-failure model. Moreover, to keep network status information at an acceptable freshness level for appropriate decision-making, we apply the concept of age of information to strike a balance between the event and scheduling based monitoring. Several key systems and DRL algorithm design insights for ZT-PFR are drawn from our analysis and simulation results. For example, we use a hybrid neural network, consisting long short-term memory layers in the DRL agents structure, to capture impending-failures time dependency.
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