Patent ID: 11960979
Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising steps of:
determining a state of a network based on telemetry data;
determining a value of a reward associated with the state;
determining an action to take on the network to bring the network to a next state that is expected to have a better than or equal to value of the reward, wherein the action is based on Reinforcement Learning and is chosen for one of exploitation to obtain rewards and exploration to determine better actions;
causing the action to be implemented in the network;
determining an updated state of the network based on updated telemetry data subsequent to causing the action to be implemented in the network; and
continuing the causing the action to be implemented in the network based on the updated state of the network;
wherein the determining the state and the updated state of the network are both performed at a predetermined interval that is one of a regular interval and a varying frequency interval.