A Time Series Modeling and Prediction of Wireless Network Traffic

Authors

  • S. Gowrishankar B.M.S. College of Engineering
  • P. S. Satyanarayana B.M.S. College of Engineering

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v3i1.284

Keywords:

Traffic flow, Nonlinear and Nonstationary Time Series, QoS, FARIMA, RRBFN, ESN and Prediction

Abstract


The number of users and their network utilization will enumerate the traffic of the network. The accurate and timely estimation of network traffic is increasingly becoming important in achieving guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless network. The better QoS can be maintained in the network by admission control, inter or intra network handovers by knowing the network traffic in advance. Here wireless network traffic is modeled as a nonlinear and nonstationary time series. In this framework, network traffic is predicted using neural network and statistical methods. The results of both the methods are compared on different time scales or time granularity. The Neural Network(NN) architectures used in this study are Recurrent Radial Basis Function Network (RRBFN) and Echo state network (ESN).The statistical model used here in this work is Fractional Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (FARIMA) model. The traffic prediction accuracy of neural network and statistical models are in the range of 96.4% to 98.3% and 78.5% to 80.2% respectively.

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Published

2008-11-14

How to Cite

Gowrishankar, S., & Satyanarayana, P. S. (2008). A Time Series Modeling and Prediction of Wireless Network Traffic. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 3(1), pp. 53–62. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v3i1.284

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Papers

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