2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

On-line Network Resource Consumption Prediction with Confidence

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469338,
        author={Zhiyuan Luo},
        title={On-line Network Resource Consumption Prediction with Confidence},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={Communication system traffic control  Computer network reliability  Computer networks  Machine learning  Machine learning algorithms  Prediction algorithms  Resource management  Telecommunication traffic  Testing  Traffic control},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469338}
    }
    
  • Zhiyuan Luo
    Year: 2008
    On-line Network Resource Consumption Prediction with Confidence
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469338
Zhiyuan Luo1,*
  • 1: Computer Learning Research Centre Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
*Contact email: zhiyuan@cs.rhul.ac.uk

Abstract

Traffic prediction is critically important for network resource management and performance evaluation. Accurate and fast prediction requires algorithmic capability, in particular, machine learning algorithms. Various learning and prediction methods have been developed and applied to provide such capability. However, these methods can only provide bare predictions, i.e. algorithms predicting values for new examples without saying how reliable these predictions are. In this paper, an on-line learning algorithm based on ridge regression is described. The on-line algorithm can give reasonably tight tolerance intervals for regression estimates. The predicted results of the algorithm on two real network traffic datasets show good performance.