Space Information Network Resource Scheduling for Cloud Computing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

With the development of satellite technology, space information networks (SINs) have been applied to various fields. SINs can provide more and more complex services and receive more and more tasks. The existing resource scheduling algorithms are difficult to play an efficient role in such a complex environment of resources and tasks. We propose a resource allocation scheme based on reinforcement learning. Firstly, according to the characteristics of the resources of SINs, we established the cloud computing architecture of SINs to manage the resources uniformly. Next, we adopt a variable granularity resources clustering algorithm based on fuzzy and hierarchical clustering algorithms. This algorithm can adaptively adjust the resource size and reduce the scheduling range. Finally, we model the resource scheduling process by a reinforcement learning algorithm to solve the joint resource scheduling problem. The simulation results show that the scheme can effectively reduce resources consumption, shorten the task execution time, and improve the resource utilization efficiency of SINs.