Causality-Preserving Spatiotemporal Feature Engineering for Cellular Network Throughput Forecasting
摘要
Effective mobile network traffic forecasting demands datasets that integrate multivariate features while preserving temporal and spatial dependencies and avoiding feature leakage. We propose a spatiotemporal, causality-preserving preprocessing framework that converts raw measurements into temporally consistent and spatially informed inputs. Its four modules: Multiscale Temporal Feature Construction, Spatiotemporal Enhancement, Interaction and Encoding Layer, and Feature Selection, capture nonlinear, time-dependent, and spatial correlations. Experiments with Hist Gradient Boosting Regressor (HGBR) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models demonstrate improved model stability, generalization, and interpretability, while ablation studies confirm the unique contribution of each module. The framework enables robust and reproducible throughput prediction from real-world cellular data.