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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Akito Suzuki, Musashino, JP;
Shigeaki Harada, Musashino, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a control device that includes one or more processors configured to: select an agent gthat executes an action that represents allocation of a virtual network onto a physical network at a time point t from a plurality of agents; observe a state sat the time point t with an input of network configuration information of the physical network, network observation information, and user demand information; select and execute, on basis of an action value function Q representing an expected value of a sum total of a reward received in future, an action afrom possible actions for the agent g; calculate a reward rusing of the action a, the state s, and a state sat a time point t+1; and update the action value function Q with use of the action a, the state s, and the state s, where 1≤j≤t is satisfied.