Machine Learning with Variable Sampling Rate for Traffic Prediction in 6G MEC IoT

Abstract

The high‐speed development of mobile broadband networks and IoT applications has brought about massive data transmission and data processing, and severe traffic congestion has adversely affected the fast‐growing networks and industries. To better allocate network resources and ensure the smooth operation of communications, predicting network traffic becomes an important tool. We investigate in detail the impact of variable sampling rate on traffic prediction and propose a high‐speed traffic prediction method using machine learning and recurrent neural networks. We first investigate a VSR‐NLMS adaptive prediction method to perform time series prediction dataset transformation. Then, we propose a VSR‐LSTM algorithm for real‐time prediction of network traffic. Finally, compared with the traditional traffic prediction algorithm based on fixed sampling rate (FSR‐LSTM), we simulate the prediction accuracy of the VSR‐LSTM algorithm based on the variable sampling rate proposed. The experiment shows that VSR‐LSTM has higher traffic prediction accuracy because its sampling rate varies with the traffic.