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Prediction of user traffic in cellular networks has attracted profound attention for improving the reliability and efficiency of network resource utilization. In this paper, we study the problem of cellular network traffic prediction and classification by employing standard machine learning and statistical learning time series prediction methods, including long short-term memory (LSTM) and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), respectively. We present an extensive experimental evaluation of the designed tools over a real network traffic dataset. Within this analysis, we explore the impact of different parameters on the effectiveness of the predictions. We further extend our analysis to the problem of network traffic classification and prediction of traffic bursts. The results, on the one hand, demonstrate the superior performance of LSTM over ARIMA in general, especially when the length of the training dataset is large enough and its granularity is fine enough. On the other hand, the results shed light onto the circumstances in which, ARIMA performs close to the optimal with lower complexity.
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The long-term SD of the dataset is 90.
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Azari, A., Papapetrou, P., Denic, S., Peters, G. (2019). Cellular Traffic Prediction and Classification: A Comparative Evaluation of LSTM and ARIMA. In: Kralj Novak, P., Šmuc, T., Džeroski, S. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11828. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33778-0_11
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