MetaSTNet: Multimodal Meta-learning for Cellular Traffic Conformal Prediction
This work addresses network congestion control and user experience improvement for cellular networks, presenting an incremental advancement in meta-learning for traffic prediction.
The paper tackles the challenge of accurate cellular traffic prediction with limited training data by proposing MetaSTNet, a multimodal meta-learning model that transfers knowledge from a simulator to real-world environments, achieving improved prediction accuracy with only small datasets.
Network traffic prediction techniques have attracted much attention since they are valuable for network congestion control and user experience improvement. While existing prediction techniques can achieve favorable performance when there is sufficient training data, it remains a great challenge to make accurate predictions when only a small amount of training data is available. To tackle this problem, we propose a deep learning model, entitled MetaSTNet, based on a multimodal meta-learning framework. It is an end-to-end network architecture that trains the model in a simulator and transfers the meta-knowledge to a real-world environment, which can quickly adapt and obtain accurate predictions on a new task with only a small amount of real-world training data. In addition, we further employ cross conformal prediction to assess the calibrated prediction intervals. Extensive experiments have been conducted on real-world datasets to illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of MetaSTNet.