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This method combines the attention mechanism with GRU neural network, fully mines the characteristics of self-similarity and long correlation among traffic data sequences, pays attention to the importance of traffic data and hidden state, learns the time-dependent characteristics of input sequences, and mines the interdependent characteristics of data sequences to improve the prediction accuracy. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to obtain the best network model Hyperparameter and improve the prediction efficiency. Simulation results show that the proposed method has the best fitting effect with real traffic data, and the errors are reduced by 26.9%, 37.2%, and 57.8% compared with the GRU, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Fractional Autoregressive Integration Moving Average (FARIMA) models, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22228678","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]],"date-time":"2022-11-10T21:22:02Z","timestamp":1668115322000},"page":"8678","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["Research on Satellite Network Traffic Prediction Based on Improved GRU Neural Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0280-5040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiguo","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication and Network Laboratory, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weijie","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication and Network Laboratory, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianxin","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication and Network Laboratory, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiaojiao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Communication and Network Laboratory, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"984","DOI":"10.1016\/j.procs.2012.06.134","article-title":"ERSVC: An Efficient Routing Scheme for Satellite Constellation Adapting Vector Composition","volume":"10","author":"Li","year":"2012","journal-title":"Procedia Comput. 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