Authors:
Claus Pahl
and
Hamid Barzegar
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Quality Management, Metrics, Controller, Edge Computing, Internet-of-Things.
Abstract:
Computation at the edge or within the Internet-of-Things (IoT) requires the use of controllers to make the management of resources in this setting self-adaptive. Controllers are software that observe a system, analyse its quality and recommend and enact decisions to maintain or improve quality. Today, often reinforcement learning (RL) that operates on a notion of reward is used to construct these controllers. Here, we investigate quality metrics and quality management processes for RL-constructed controllers for edge and IoT settings. We introduce RL and control principles and define a quality-oriented controller reference architecture. This forms the based for the central contribution, a quality analysis metrics framework, embedded into a quality management process.