TCP Congestion Avoidance in Data Centres using Reinforcement Learning
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Abstract
TCP, a transport layer protocol which ensures the reliable delivery of information on the network, is the basis of Internet connectivity, with 85% of the worlds Internet traffic being TCP based. TCP however, is slow to adapt to changes in the network, drastically reducing the throughput at the first sign of possible congestion, thereby preventing rapid restoration of the throughput. Mitigating this problem has been a very active area of research, as, until recently, the idea of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this space was relatively limited. Recently, Reinforcement Learning (RL), a form of AI, has been explored in the networking space, and in enhancing the performance of TCP,this paper aims to expand the use of RL for TCP (TCP-RL) in a software-defined data centre for the purpose of network congestion avoidance based on host-based TCP metrics. We demonstrate that our proposed approach is able to significantly reduce the impact of congestion on the end-to-end network throughput within the data centre.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".