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Second, using the broad learning system to build a network interface flow forecasting model. The flow values in the time period [T\u221211,T] are used as the characteristic values of the traffic at the moment T+1. The hyperparameters outputted in the previous step are fed into the network to train the broad learning system network traffic prediction model. Finally, to verify the model performance, this paper trains the prediction model on two public network flow datasets and real traffic data of an enterprise cloud platform switch interface and compares the proposed model with the broad learning system, long short-term memory, and other methods. 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