arXiv:2608.04075cs.LGcs.AI2026-08

用图注意力模型同时捕捉交通的空间与长期时间依赖,提升边缘计算预测精度。

Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer for Traffic Intelligence in Edge Computing

论文配图:Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer for Traffic Intelligence in Edge Computing
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 构建时空图Transformer,分离空间与时间建模,增强大尺度流量预测能力。
  • 在真实蜂窝网络数据集上,多时序预测均优于GCN-RNN等基线模型。
  • 适合需要动态资源调度的边缘计算系统,助力主动式资源管理。

精准的交通预测对边缘计算中主动资源管理至关重要,因服务需求在时空上动态演变。实际蜂窝边缘系统中,相邻服务区域间存在强空间相关性,且用户移动与应用行为驱动长期时间依赖。现有循环预测方法可捕捉短期动态,但在非平稳条件下难以建模长周期演化。为此,我们提出一种时空图Transformer框架,联合建模空间交互与时间依赖。该框架采用图神经网络捕捉服务区域间的空间相关性,并利用Transformer自注意力机制从历史流量观测中学习长程时间模式。通过解耦空间表征学习与时间推理,该方法有效支持大规模时空流量建模。在真实蜂窝网络数据集上的大量实验表明,所提模型在多个预测时长下持续优于基于图的循环基线模型(如GCN-RNN、GCN-LSTM、GCN-GRU)。生成的预测可实现更有效的主动资源部署,降低过载风险,优于被动管理策略。结果凸显图增强注意力机制在构建智能自适应边缘系统中的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for proactive resource management in edge computing, where service demand evolves dynamically across both space and time. In practical cellular edge systems, traffic exhibits strong spatial correlations among neighboring service regions and long-range temporal dependencies driven by user mobility and application behavior. Existing recurrent forecasting approaches can capture short-term dynamics but often struggle to model long-horizon traffic evolution under non-stationary conditions. To address this challenge, we propose a spatiotemporal graph Transformer framework that jointly models spatial interactions and temporal dependencies for traffic forecasting in edge computing. The framework employs graph neural networks to capture spatial correlations among service regions and leverages Transformer-based self-attention to learn long-range temporal patterns from historical traffic observations. By decoupling spatial representation learning from temporal reasoning, the proposed approach provides an effective mechanism for large-scale spatiotemporal traffic modeling. Extensive experiments on a real-world cellular network dataset demonstrate that the proposed graph Transformer consistently outperforms recurrent graph-based baselines, including GCN-RNN, GCN-LSTM, and GCN-GRU models, across multiple forecasting horizons. The resulting forecasts enable more effective proactive resource provisioning and reduce overload risk compared with reactive management strategies. These results highlight the potential of graph-enhanced attention mechanisms for building intelligent and adaptive edge computing systems.

交通预测图神经网络边缘计算Transformer

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