WSEAS Transactions on Communications
Print ISSN: 1109-2742, E-ISSN: 2224-2864
Volume 15, 2016
Internet Access Link Speed Between ISPs’ Myths and Subscribers’ Expectations
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: Due to the eruption of Internet contents and the need to interact with these contents quickly, Internet speed and subscribers’ download and upload bandwidths become important limiting issues. Increasing the purchased bandwidth from Internet Service Provider (ISP) can mainly solve these issues. However, the purchased bandwidth is not the real bandwidth subscribers obtained and paid for. Many factors impact the real obtained bandwidth. One of these important factors is the time of the day a subscriber access the Internet. In this work, we attempt to measure Internet connection speed over time. The recorded values proved the impact and effect of time on the speed and quality of the purchased bandwidth. To this end, we proposed a prediction models based on time series analysis and nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) neural network to predict the actual Internet connection bandwidth over time. Two NARX models have been implemented; the first one is for the download bandwidth and the other is for the upload bandwidth. These models obtained 86% and 88% in the validation test. These models can be utilized to predict the actual bandwidth an ISP can offer to a customer.
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Keywords: Time Series, Nonlinear autoregressive with external input (NARX), Bandwidth, Internet Speed, Neural Network
Pages: 233-239
WSEAS Transactions on Communications, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2742 / 2224-2864, Volume 15, 2016, Art. #27