Study introduces a spatiotemporal modeling approach combining Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) with Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) for predicting network traffic in complex topological environments.
GCN captures spatial dependencies among network nodes, while GRU models the temporal evolution of traffic data, enabling precise forecasting of future traffic patterns.
Proposed model validated through experiments on real-world Abilene network traffic dataset, outperforming popular deep learning methods in performance metrics.
Ablation experiments conducted to evaluate components such as graph convolution layers, temporal modeling strategies, and adjacency matrix construction, showing superior performance and strong generalization capabilities.