ZTE Communications ›› 2019, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (2): 10-18.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.201902003

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Novel Real-Time System for Traffic Flow Classification and Prediction

YE Dezhong1, LV Haibing1, GAO Yun2, BAO Qiuxia2, CHEN Mingzi2   

  1. 1. ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518057, China
    2. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210003, China
  • Received:2018-09-28 Online:2019-06-11 Published:2019-11-14
  • About author:YE Dezhong received his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 1996. He is currently a chief big data engineer at ZTE Corporation. His research interests include big data in wireline communication and fixed network product|LV Haibing received his B.S. degree from China University of Mining and Technology, China in 2002. He is currently a wireline product architecture director at ZTE Corporation. His research interests include fixed network products and IPTV systems|GAO Yun received his B.E. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China in 2016. He is currently pursing Ph.D. degree in NUPT. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, and QoE in multimedia communication|BAO Qiuxia received her B.E. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China in 2017. She is currently pursing M.S. degree in NUPT. Her research interests include machine learning in big data, etc|Chen Mingzi (1018010415@njupt.edu.cn) received her B.S. degrees in computer science from both New York Institute of Technology, USA and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China in 2018. She is currently pursing Ph.D. degree in NUPT. Her research interests include machine learning on big data, QoE in multimedia communication, and 5G tactile internet toward artificial intelligence
  • Supported by:
    This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants No(61571240);This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants No(61671474);The Jiangsu Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars No(BK20170089);The ZTE program“The Prediction of Wireline Network Malfunction and Traffic Based on Big Data,” No(2016ZTE04-07);Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province No(KYCX18_0916);The Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

Abstract:

Traffic flow prediction has been applied into many wireless communication applications (e.g., smart city, Internet of Things). With the development of wireless communication technologies and artificial intelligence, how to design a system for real-time traffic flow prediction and receive high accuracy of prediction are urgent problems for both researchers and equipment suppliers. This paper presents a novel real-time system for traffic flow prediction. Different from the single algorithm for traffic flow prediction, our novel system firstly utilizes dynamic time wrapping to judge whether traffic flow data has regularity, realizing traffic flow data classification. After traffic flow data classification, we respectively make use of XGBoost and wavelet transform-echo state network to predict traffic flow data according to their regularity. Moreover, in order to realize real-time classification and prediction, we apply Spark/Hadoop computing platform to process large amounts of traffic data. Numerical results show that the proposed novel system has better performance and higher accuracy than other schemes.

Key words: traffic flow prediction, dynamic time warping, XGBoost, echo state network, Spark/Hadoop computing platform