Quantum machine learning framework for traffic flow forecasting in optical networks
摘要
Intelligent optimization techniques are needed in modern optical communication networks to improve signal security and efficiency in the face of rapid technological advancement. In order to forecast traffic flow in optical networks, this paper proposes a quantum machine learning framework that combines quantum support vector machine (QSVM) with term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) feature extraction. For thorough traffic analysis, real-time network packets are recorded using the Wireshark network analyzer. With a 2-qubit configuration, the framework outperforms the 4-qubit and 8-qubit configurations, achieving root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.144, mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.380, and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 0.256. In optical network traffic forecasting applications, the suggested QSVM framework greatly outperforms current classical methods with a prediction accuracy of 97.36%.