Reinforcement learning for adaptive routing
Leonid Peshkin, Virginia Savova · 2003
Reinforcement learning means learning a policy-a mapping of observations into actions-based on feedback from the environment. The learning can be viewed as browsing a set of policies while evaluating them by trial through interaction with the environment. We present an application of a gradient ascent algorithm for reinforcement learning to a complex domain of packet routing in network communication and compare the performance of this algorithm to other routing methods on a benchmark problem.