Abstract
A substantial amount of money and time is required to optimize resources in a massive Wi-Fi network in a real-world environment. Therefore, to reduce cost, proposed algorithms are first verified through simulations before implementing them in a real-world environment. A traffic model is essential to describe user traffic for simulations. Existing traffic models are statistical models based on a discrete-time random process and combine a spatiotemporal characteristic model with the varying parameters, such as average and variance, of a statistical model. The spatiotemporal characteristic model has a mathematically strict assumption that the access points (APs) have approximately similar traffic patterns that increase during day times and decrease at night. The mathematical assumption ensures a homogeneous representation of the network traffic. It does not include heterogeneous characteristics, such as the fact that lecture buildings on campus have a high traffic during lectures, while restaurants have a high traffic only during mealtimes. Therefore, it is difficult to represent heterogeneous traffic using this mathematical model. Deep learning can be used to represent heterogeneous patterns. This study proposes a generative model for Wi-Fi traffic that considers spatiotemporal characteristics using deep learning. The proposed model learns the heterogeneous traffic patterns from the AP-level measurement data without any assumptions and generates similar traffic patterns based on the data. The result shows that the difference between the sample generated by the proposed model and the collected data is up to 72.1% less than that reported in previous studies.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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