Object-Based Multipath Transmission Scheduling Algorithm in Multi-Modal Scenarios
Zhipeng Zhang, Ye Tian, Mengyu Yang, Xiangyang Gong · 2023
At present, with the rapid advancement of mul-timedia technology, more and more multimodal applications have emerged. The data communication of multimodal applications involves multiple modalities, and the transmitted data has deadline requirements and block transmission characteristics. However, existing transport layer protocols cannot meet the transmission requirements of applications by perceiving the data attributes and it is difficult to avoid high-priority modalities from excessively seizing transmission resources, resulting in transmission starvation in other modalities. Therefore, this paper considers the data blocks and their transmission requirements of the upper layer application as independent data objects and proposes an object multipath transmission scheduling al-gorithm (OMTS) that can consider the fairness of multimodal transmission. OMTS uses reinforcement learning algorithms to comprehensively consider the transmission requirements of data objects and the quality of multipath network transmission, to determine the transmission order and path allocation strategy of objects. In addition, we also design a model structure that separates scheduling and learning, allowing the algorithm to learn more valuable scheduling strategies through continuous interaction with the environment. The comparative experiment of data transmission through the network simulation environment shows that OMTS is superior to existing scheduling algorithms.