A Deep Learning Approach for Location Independent Throughput Prediction

Mobile communication has become a part of everyday life and is considered to support reliability and safety in traffic use cases such as conditionally automated driving. Nevertheless, prediction of Quality of Service parameters, particularly throughput, is still a challenging task while on the move. Whereas most approaches in this research field rely on historical data measurements, mapped to the corresponding coordinates in the area of interest, this paper proposes a throughput prediction method that focuses on a location independent approach. In order to compensate the missing positioning information, mainly used for spatial clustering, our model uses low-level mobile network parameters, improved by additional feature engineering to retrieve abstracted location information, e. g., surrounding building size and street type. Thus, the major advantage of our method is the applicability to new regions without the prerequisite of conducting an extensive measurement campaign in advance. Therefore, we embed analysis results for underlying temporal relations in the design of different deep neuronal network types. Finally, model performances are evaluated and compared to traditional models, such as the support vector or random forest regression, which were harnessed in previous investigations.