Joint Random Forest and Particle Swarm Optimization for Predictive Pathloss Modeling of Wireless Signals from Cellular Networks

Autor: Okiemute Roberts Omasheye, Samuel Azi, Joseph Isabona, Agbotiname Lucky Imoize, Chun-Ta Li, Cheng-Chi Lee
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Future Internet, Vol 14, Iss 12, p 373 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-5903
DOI: 10.3390/fi14120373
Popis: The accurate and reliable predictive estimation of signal attenuation loss is of prime importance in radio resource management. During wireless network design and planning, a reliable path loss model is required for optimal predictive estimation of the received signal strength, coverage, quality, and signal interference-to-noise ratio. A set of trees (100) on the target measured data was employed to determine the most informative and important subset of features, which were in turn employed as input data to the Particle Swarm (PS) model for predictive path loss analysis. The proposed Random Forest (RF-PS) based model exhibited optimal precision performance in the real-time prognostic analysis of measured path loss over operational 4G LTE networks in Nigeria. The relative performance of the proposed RF-PS model was compared to the standard PS and hybrid radial basis function-particle swarm optimization (RBF-PS) algorithm for benchmarking. Generally, results indicate that the proposed RF-PS model gave better prediction accuracy than the standard PS and RBF-PS models across the investigated environments. The projected hybrid model would find useful applications in path loss modeling in related wireless propagation environments.
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