Network Data Center Traffic Predictive Model Analysis Based on Machine Learning

Abstract

Due to the transient nature and uncertainty of traffic produced by applications and services, data center networks have a lot of challenges. As a response, networking as a domain is continually evolving to maintain the exponential growth in network traffic. The primary objective of this paper is to predict the network traffic before it impacts the system's performance. This paper first describes existing Machine Learning (ML) applications in telecommunications and then lists the most prominent difficulties and probable remedies for implementing them. We tried to implement different ML algorithms to predict the network traffic like Gradient Boosting (GB), Random Forest (RF), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Adaptive Boosting (AB), Neural Network (NN), Decision Tree (DT), and Support Vector Machines (SVM) with different sub-parameters for predicting network traffic. Relying on a sequential dataset, we create the corresponding ML environment and present a comparison table of Mean square error (MSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Coefficient of Determination (R2) for each model. The simulation results show that the AB and GB are the best-fitted models with performance matrix parameters like MSE 0.000 and RMSE 0.002 and 0.011, respectively. The orange tool is used to stimulate the predictive models.