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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Phys.
Sec. Social Physics
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2024.1477382

Feature Analysis of 5G Traffic Data Based on Visibility Graph

Provisionally accepted
Ke Sun Ke Sun 1Jiwei Xu Jiwei Xu 2*
  • 1 School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shanxi Province, China
  • 2 Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China

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    As 5G networks become widespread and their application scenarios expand, massive amounts of traffic data are continuously generated. Properly analyzing this data is crucial for enhancing 5G services. This paper uses the visibility graph method to convert 5G traffic data into a visibility graph network, conducting a feature analysis of the 5G traffic data. Experimental results reveal significant differences in node degree distribution and topological structures of 5G traffic data across different application scenarios, such as star structures and multiple subnetwork structures. Using the AfreecaTV dataset as the research object, this paper constructs visibility networks at different scales and observes the evolution of degree distribution with varying data volumes. It is found that the node degree distribution of 5G traffic networks exhibits heterogeneity, reflecting the uneven growth of node degrees during network expansion. The paper employs the Hurst index to evaluate the 5G traffic network, discovering that the 5G traffic network retains the long-term dependence and trends of the original data. Through community detection, it is observed that networks converted from 5G traffic data of different applications exhibit diverse community structures, such as high centrality nodes, star-like community structures, modularity, and multilayer characteristics.

    Keywords: 5G traffic data, Visibility graph, Complex Network, degree distribution, community structure

    Received: 07 Aug 2024; Accepted: 17 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Sun and Xu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jiwei Xu, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China

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