通过可信赖的反事实分析,预测换用其他无线网络应用后性能会如何变化。
What If We Had Used a Different App? Reliable Counterfactual KPI Analysis in Wireless Systems
- 基于校准预测方法,估算不同应用下的性能指标。
- 在中控层和物理层应用上验证,误差可控且结果可靠。
- 适合网络优化与应用选择策略评估的工程师使用。
在现代无线网络架构(如开放无线接入网 O-RAN)中,无线接入网(RAN)由部署在智能控制器上的应用程序(apps)管理,这些应用根据当前上下文信息从目录中选取。例如,调度应用会依据当前流量和网络状况进行选择。一旦选定并运行某应用,就无法直接测试若采用另一应用所能获得的关键性能指标(KPI)。因此,在相同网络条件下,无法同时观测实际的KPI与反事实的KPI,使得个体级反事实分析极为困难。然而,这种‘如果’分析对监控和优化网络运行具有重要价值,例如识别次优的应用选择策略。本文提出一种基于校准预测的反事实分析方法,用于估计若在RAN中采用不同应用所可能获得的KPI值。该方法能在日志数据与测试数据存在固有协变量偏移的情况下,仍提供可靠的误差范围。在中控层和物理层应用上的实验结果证明了该方法的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In modern wireless network architectures, such as Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), the operation of the radio access network (RAN) is managed by applications, or apps for short, deployed at intelligent controllers. These apps are selected from a given catalog based on current contextual information. For instance, a scheduling app may be selected on the basis of current traffic and network conditions. Once an app is chosen and run, it is no longer possible to directly test the key performance indicators (KPIs) that would have been obtained with another app. In other words, we can never simultaneously observe both the actual KPI, obtained by the selected app, and the counterfactual KPI, which would have been attained with another app, for the same network condition, making individual-level counterfactual KPIs analysis particularly challenging. This what-if analysis, however, would be valuable to monitor and optimize the network operation, e.g., to identify suboptimal app selection strategies. This paper addresses the problem of estimating the values of KPIs that would have been obtained if a different app had been implemented by the RAN. To this end, we propose a conformal-prediction-based counterfactual analysis method for wireless systems that provides reliable error bars for the estimated KPIs, despite the inherent covariate shift between logged and test data. Experimental results for medium access control-layer apps and for physical-layer apps demonstrate the merits of the proposed method.
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