Joint Graph Convolution and Sequential Modeling for Scalable Network Traffic Estimation
This addresses network traffic forecasting for network management, but it is incremental as it combines existing methods (GCN and GRU).
This study tackled the problem of predicting network traffic in complex topological environments by integrating Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), achieving superior performance across multiple metrics on the Abilene dataset.
This study focuses on the challenge of predicting network traffic within complex topological environments. It introduces a spatiotemporal modeling approach that integrates Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU). The GCN component captures spatial dependencies among network nodes, while the GRU component models the temporal evolution of traffic data. This combination allows for precise forecasting of future traffic patterns. The effectiveness of the proposed model is validated through comprehensive experiments on the real-world Abilene network traffic dataset. The model is benchmarked against several popular deep learning methods. Furthermore, a set of ablation experiments is conducted to examine the influence of various components on performance, including changes in the number of graph convolution layers, different temporal modeling strategies, and methods for constructing the adjacency matrix. Results indicate that the proposed approach achieves superior performance across multiple metrics, demonstrating robust stability and strong generalization capabilities in complex network traffic forecasting scenarios.