Generalizable One-Way Delay Prediction Models for Heterogeneous UEs in 5G NetworksShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and management Symposium 2024, NOMS 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
From a 5G operator’s perspective, accurate estimates of key User Equipments (UEs) performance metrics, especially One-Way Delay (OWD), can provide valuable information. These estimates can trigger management tasks such as reconfiguration to prevent violations of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Moreover, such insights into UE performance can empower applications to adapt their services to end-users in a more effective manner. We use advanced machine learning over data gathered at the base stations to predict OWD from UEs and show that we are able to predict OWD with over a 2× reduction in percentage error compared to the considered baseline. We discover the close coupling between the performance of the OWD model and the type of UE, which poses a model generalization challenge. Addressing this problem, we demonstrate the shortcomings of the commonly used fine-tuning approach and develop a novel method based on domain adversarial neural networks, that can adapt to a target domain without compromising on the performance of the source domain. Our results show that we can adapt our source model to provide OWD prediction performance within 1-4 percentage points of the ideal scenario when the source and the target domains are the same. Also, our work is grounded in empirical experiments conducted within a 5G testbed, using commercially available hardware. © 2024 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024.
Keywords [en]
Forecasting, Queueing networks, Delay predictions, Equipment performance, Heterogeneous users, Key users, One-way delay, Performance, Performance metrices, Prediction modelling, Target domain, User equipments, 5G mobile communication systems
National Category
Telecommunications Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-74728DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10574985Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85197951478OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-74728DiVA, id: diva2:1887487
Conference
IEEE/IFIP Network operations and management symposium
Funder
Vinnova, C2020/2-2EU, Horizon 2020, 101015922
Note
This research was supported by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) via the project Celtic IMMINENCE (C2020/2-2), the European Union's Horizon 2020 AI@EDGE project (grant no. 101015922), and the University of Oulu co-funding for the 6GESS project.
2024-08-082024-08-082024-08-08Bibliographically approved