A BiGRU Model Based on the DBO Algorithm for Cloud-Edge Communication Networks

With the development of IoT technology, central cloud servers and edge-computing servers together form a cloud–edge communication network to meet the increasing demand for computing tasks. The data transmitted in this network is of high value, so the ability to quickly and accurately predict the traffic load of each link becomes critical to ensuring the security and stable operation of the network. In order to effectively counter the potential threat of flood attacks on network stability, we combine the Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) model with the Dung Beetle Optimizer (DBO) algorithm to design a DBO-BiGRU short-term traffic load prediction model. Experimental validation on a public dataset shows that the proposed model has better prediction accuracy and fit than the mainstream models of RNN, LSTM, and TCN.