QoE-Aware Traffic Aggregation Using Preference Logic for Edge Intelligence

Traffic flows with different requirements of quality of service (QoS requirements) are aggregated into different QoS classes to provide differentiated services (Diffserv) and better quality of experience (QoE) for users. The existing aggregation approaches/QoS mapping methods are based on quantitative QoS requirements and static QoS classes. However, they are typically qualitative and time-varying at the edge of the beyond fifth generation (B5G) networks. Therefore, the artificial intelligence technology of preference logic is applied in this paper to achieve an intelligent method for edge computing, called the preference logic based aggregation model (PLM), which effectively groups flows with qualitative requirements into dynamic classes. First, PLM uses preferences to describe QoS requirements of flows, and thus can deal with both quantitative and qualitative cases. Next, the potential conflicts in these preferences are eliminated. According to the preferences, traffic flows are finally mapped into dynamic QoS classes by logic reasoning. The experimental results show that PLM presents better performance in terms of QoE satisfaction compared with the existing aggregation methods. Utilizing preference logic to group flows, PLM implements a novel way of edge intelligence to deal with dynamic classes and improves the Diffserv for massive B5G traffic with quantitative and qualitative requirements.