Abstract
The growing convergence of various services characterizes wireless access networks. Therefore, there is a high demand for provisioning the spectrum to serve simultaneous users demanding high throughput rates. The load prediction at each access point is mandatory to allocate resources and to assist sophisticated network designs. However, the load at each access point varies according to the number of connected devices and traffic characteristics. In this paper, we propose a load estimation strategy based on a Markov’s Chain to predict the number of devices connected to each access point on the wireless network, and we apply an unsupervised machine learning model to identify traffic profiles. The main goals are to determine traffic patterns and overload projections in the wireless network, efficiently scale the network, and provide a knowledge base for security tools. We evaluate the proposal in a large-scale university network, with 670 access points spread over a wide area. The collected data is de-identified, and data processing occurs in the cloud. The evaluation results show that the proposal predicts the number of connected devices with 90% accuracy and discriminates five different user-traffic profiles on the load of the wireless network.
Highlights
Mobile and Wi-Fi networks are increasingly ubiquitous and have constant and significant growth in their adoption
This paper proposes a strategy for identifying user-traffic profiles in wireless networks and predicting the workload on each of the access points
We proposed to build a workload prediction model for each user profile using network flow data, reported by the NetFlow, and the registries of device association with access points in the network
Summary
Pedro Silveira Pisa 1,2,† , Bernardo Costa 2,† , Jéssica Alcântara Gonçalves 2,† , Dianne Scherly Varela de Medeiros 1,† and Diogo Menezes Ferrazani Mattos 1, *,†.
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