BP neural network-based ABEP performance prediction for mobile Internet of Things communication systems

Abstract

Wireless communications play an important role in the mobile Internet of Things (IoT). For practical mobile communication systems, N-Nakagami fading channels are a better characterization than N-Rayleigh and 2-Rayleigh fading channels. The average bit error probability (ABEP) is an important factor in the performance evaluation of mobile IoT systems. In this paper, cooperative communications is used to enhance the ABEP performance of mobile IoT systems using selection combining. To compute the ABEP, the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of the direct link and end-to-end link are considered. The probability density function (PDF) of these SNRs is derived, and this is used to derive the cumulative distribution function, which is used to derive closed-form ABEP expressions. The theoretical results are confirmed by Monte-Carlo simulation. The impact of fading and other parameters on the ABEP performance is examined. These results can be used to evaluate the performance of complex environments such as mobile IoT and other communication systems. To support active complex event processing in mobile IoT, it is important to predict the ABEP performance. Thus, a back-propagation (BP) neural network-based ABEP performance prediction algorithm is proposed. We use the theoretical results to generate training data. We test the extreme learning machine (ELM), linear regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), and BP neural network methods. Compared to LR, SVM, and ELM methods, the simulation results verify that our method can consistently achieve higher ABEP performance prediction results.