A Deep Learning Approach for Location Independent Throughput Prediction Mobile communication has become a part of everyday life and is considered to support reliability and safety in traffic use cases such as conditionally automated driving. Nevertheless, prediction of Quality of Service parameters, particularly throughput, is still a challenging task while on the move. Whereas most approaches in this research field rely on historical data measurements, mapped to the corresponding coordinates in the area of interest, this paper proposes a throughput prediction method that focuses on a location independent approach. In order to compensate the missing positioning information, mainly used for spatial clustering, our model uses lowlevel mobile network parameters, improved by additional feature engineering to retrieve abstracted location information, e. g., surrounding building size and street type. Thus, the major advantage of our method is the applicability to new regions without the prerequisite of conducting an extensive measurement campaign in advance. Therefore, we embed analysis results for underlying temporal relations in the design of different deep neuronal network types. Finally, model performances are evaluated and compared to traditional models, such as the support vector or random forest regression, which were harnessed in previous investigations.

LTE for Trains  Performance Interactions Examined with DL, ML and Resampling Current LTE networks provide a large fraction of the mobile communication needs. One recent application area that have attained additional interest is the provision of mobile communication services to train passengers. To allow more efficient use of network resources and better onboard communication experience, onboard traffic aggregation can be performed. In this work we examine a largescale operational data set from a routerbased LTE traffic aggregation system mounted onboard more than 100 trains belonging to a major Swedish train operator. We use both deep learning (DL) with Deep Neural Networks and traditional machine learning (ML) with Random Forests to examine an observed association between train velocity and achieved throughput, which curiously varies over different radio conditions. More than 37000 train journeys are analyzed to explore for structure and learn potential explanatory features. The results indicate that the association has a limited presence on a per cell basis, and that there is only a limited amount of learnable structure per cell. A resampling evaluation shows that the association becomes apparent when cell measurements are aggregated at an order of tens to a hundred cells.