NordicDat: A Cross-Border Predictive QoS Dataset

The advent of 5G and beyond systems is expected to shape the automotive vertical, as safety-critical vehicular applications rely on the network to meet their stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Predictive QoS (pQoS) has been proposed as a mechanism that allows automotive applications to proactively adapt in view of forthcoming QoS changes. Although pQoS is typically facilitated via classical (centralized) Machine Learning (ML) methods, the demand for data privacy has led to the emergence of distributed ML schemes. Efficient training of ML models however requires large volumes of (kinematic-state and connectivity) QoS data, so as to capture the involved spatio-temporal effects.To that end we hereby present and publicly share NordicDat, a QoS dataset collected during a two-week measurement campaign, driving across three European countries. NordicDat contains over 90K samples of physical layer, network and mobility-related features. Contrary to prior works, it includes multiple instances of cross-boarder roaming, diverse vehicle speed profiles and radio access technologies (generations). Further, we provide a thorough NordicDat data analysis, highlighting the dependencies between the NordicDat’s features and the resulting QoS values (throughput, delay). To showcase its broad usability, we train pQoS ML models over NordicDat in classical and distributed fashion. Our results demonstrate for the first time the viability of distributed pQoS with real-word data, which achieves similar (within a margin of 10%) accuracy to that of classical ML, cropping privacy-preserving benefits.