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Augmenting Network Performance Datasets with Weather, Sports, and Social Media Data for Improved Predictions

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Augmenting Network Performance Datasets with Weather, Sports, and Social Media Data for Improved Predictions

Patel, Shivam Dimplekumar (2021) Augmenting Network Performance Datasets with Weather, Sports, and Social Media Data for Improved Predictions. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Abstract

Understanding network performance enables network providers to manage their network
better. Network performance degradation can lead to network service issues causing monetary
loss and customer churn for the network providers. Accurate network performance
prediction potentially enables proactive resource allocation to attenuate the anticipated network
performance degradation and associated service issues. Previous literature attempted
to predict network performance using historical network data. However, real-world network
performance is impacted by various external factors. Existing literature fails to consider
such external factors that can improve the understanding and predictions of the network
performance. This thesis aims to examine if external factors can improve the network
performance understanding and predictions. To this end, we inspect the correlation of
network performance data with various external data sources such as weather parameters,
sports events, and social media posts. Then, we perform network performance data augmentation
using the contextual information in such external data. We investigate the network
performance prediction improvements using Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with
Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) units after data augmentation. Predictive experiments
with data augmentation using NFL sports events highlight a 23% improvement in the network
performance predictions. Data augmentation using other external sources considered
fails to improve the network performance predictions.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Patel, Shivam Dimplekumar
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M. Comp. Sc.
Program:Computer Science
Date:4 June 2021
Thesis Supervisor(s):Glatard, Tristan and Jaumard, Brigitte
Keywords:external factors affecting network performance, telecom networks, data augmentation with NFL events, Predictive analysis, Long Short Term Memory models, improved packet loss prediction
ID Code:988497
Deposited By: Shivam Dimplekumar Patel
Deposited On:29 Nov 2021 17:09
Last Modified:29 Nov 2021 17:09

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