Quantum Generative Adversarial Network for Network Traffic Prediction
Yufan Cui, Han Qi, Hao Wang +2 more
With the wide application of 5G technology, the global Internet scale has grown sharply, putting forward higher requirements for both traditional network traffic prediction technology and network traffic prediction technology based on deep learning. Especially when dealing with large-scale data, the computational load and accuracy often fail to meet the actual demands. To overcome this problem, this paper introduces quantum technology and for the first time explores the challenge of applying quantum generative adversarial networks to network traffic prediction. Due to the advantage of efficient data processing capabilities of quantum generative adversarial networks (QGAN) and the sensitivity of long short-term memory networks (LSTM) to time series, the combination of the two provides a new research direction and application potential for time series analysis and prediction in the quantum field. This paper proposes a quantum generative adversarial network with an LSTM layer added to the generator. The temporal features extracted by LSTM are repeatedly embedded into the quantum circuit of the generator by using Angle encoding and data re-upload strategies. This enables quantum generative adversarial networks to handle temporal dependencies and enhances the expressive power of quantum circuits. Prediction experiments were conducted on the simulation platform using real network traffic data and compared with existing quantum neural network models for time series prediction such as QLSTM. The MAPE, $\mathbf{R}^{\mathbf{2}}$, MAE and RMSE indicators reached $3.4 \%, 98.6 \%, 0.018$ and 0.027 respectively, all showing significant advantages.
International Symposium on Computer and Information Processing Technology (ISCIPT)•Sep 12, 2025•0 citations