# Online Supervised Learning for Traffic Load Prediction in Framed-ALOHA Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11064 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11064/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 25 Jul 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Evaluation of Load Prediction Techniques for Distributed Stream Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.04749/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Predicting the current backlog, or traffic load, in framed-ALOHA networks enables the optimization of resource allocation, e.g., of the frame size. However, this prediction is made difficult by the lack of information about the cardinality of collisions and by possibly complex packet generation statistics. Assuming no prior information about the traffic model, apart from a bound on its temporal memory, this paper develops an online learning-based adaptive traffic load prediction method that is based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) and specifically on the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture. In order to enable online training in the absence of feedback on the exact cardinality of collisions, the proposed strategy leverages a novel approximate labeling technique that is inspired by Method of Moments (MOM) estimators. Numerical results show that the proposed online predictor considerably outperforms conventional methods and is able to adapt to changing traffic statistics.