Key Quality Indicators Prediction for Web Browsing with Embedded Filter Feature Selection

In this paper, the prediction of over-the-top service quality is discussed, which is a promising way for mobile network engineers to tackle service deterioration as early as possible. Currently, traditional mobile network operation often takes appropriate remedial measures, when receiving customers' complaints about service problems. With the popularity of over-the-top services, this problem has become increasingly serious. Based on the service perception data crowd-sensed from massive smartphones in the mobile network, we first investigated the application of multi-label ReliefF, a well-known method of feature selection, in determining the feature weights of the perception data and propose a unified multi-label ReliefF (UML-ReliefF) algorithm. Then a feature-weighted multi-label k-nearest neighbor (ML-kNN) algorithm is proposed for the key quality indicators (KQI) prediction, by combining the UML-ReliefF and ML-kNN together in the learning. The experimental results for web browsing service show that UML-ReliefF can effectively identify the most influential features of the data and thus, lead to better performance for KQI prediction. The experiments also show that the feature-weighted KQI prediction is superior to its unweighted counterpart, since the former takes full advantage of all the features in the learning. Although there is still much room of improvement in the precision of the prediction, the proposed method is highly potential for network engineers to find the deterioration of service quality promptly and take measures before it is too late.