Predictive Traffic Shaping as a UE Network Control Loop in Wireless Systems

Abstract

Wireless systems usually react to current channel conditions, queue state, and policy. Yet service conditions can often be anticipated seconds ahead. This paper studies predictive traffic shaping, a slower user-equipment (UE) control loop that changes when flexible demand reaches the radio access network (RAN). The UE estimates useful pre-event demand and releases it across a lookahead window. Cooperative deployments may also send a compact future-risk descriptor to the network. The trigger uses prediction confidence. Predictive service is confined to available surplus, while a debt account preserves long-term fairness after temporary pre-event preference. A bandwidth-time model captures efficiency gains and load smoothing. It also accounts for prediction waste and shared-resource cost. In a stylized shared- cell simulation, paced demand release substantially expands the stable-feasible region. A safe service cap and admission control provide further gains at longer windows. PRISM, an application-owned middleware prototype, implements the local control policy using ordinary mobile transfer mechanisms.