Research on Satellite Network Traffic Prediction Based on Improved GRU Neural Network.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

The current satellite network traffic forecasting methods cannot fully exploit the long correlation between satellite traffic sequences, which leads to large network traffic forecasting errors and low forecasting accuracy. To solve these problems, we propose a satellite network traffic forecasting method with an improved gate recurrent unit (GRU). This method combines the attention mechanism with GRU neural network, fully mines the characteristics of self-similarity and long correlation among traffic data sequences, pays attention to the importance of traffic data and hidden state, learns the time-dependent characteristics of input sequences, and mines the interdependent characteristics of data sequences to improve the prediction accuracy. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to obtain the best network model Hyperparameter and improve the prediction efficiency. Simulation results show that the proposed method has the best fitting effect with real traffic data, and the errors are reduced by 26.9%, 37.2%, and 57.8% compared with the GRU, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Fractional Autoregressive Integration Moving Average (FARIMA) models, respectively.

Authors

  • Zhiguo Liu
    School of Life Science and Technology, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China.
  • Weijie Li
    Communication and Network Laboratory, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China.
  • Jianxin Feng
    Department of Interventional Therapy, People's Hospital of Baoji, Baoji City, 721000 Shaanxi Province, China.
  • Jiaojiao Zhang
    State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Bioelectromagnetic Technology and Intelligent Health, School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, China.