Wireless Link Quality Estimation Using LSTM Model
This work addresses the need for stable wireless communication in mobile networks, but it is incremental as it applies an existing LSTM method to a specific domain.
The paper tackled the problem of predicting wireless link quality for stable communication by proposing an LSTM-based model, which achieved a 4.0% higher accuracy and 4.6% higher macro-F1 score compared to a conventional stacked autoencoder model.
In recent years, various services have been provided through high-speed and high-capacity wireless networks on mobile communication devices, necessitating stable communication regardless of indoor or outdoor environments. To achieve stable communication, it is essential to implement proactive measures, such as switching to an alternative path and ensuring data buffering before the communication quality becomes unstable. The technology of Wireless Link Quality Estimation (WLQE), which predicts the communication quality of wireless networks in advance, plays a crucial role in this context. In this paper, we propose a novel WLQE model for estimating the communication quality of wireless networks by leveraging sequential information. Our proposed method is based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), enabling highly accurate estimation by considering the sequential information of link quality. We conducted a comparative evaluation with the conventional model, stacked autoencoder-based link quality estimator (LQE-SAE), using a dataset recorded in real-world environmental conditions. Our LSTM-based LQE model demonstrates its superiority, achieving a 4.0% higher accuracy and a 4.6% higher macro-F1 score than the LQE-SAE model in the evaluation.