"Training a GNN on Real Mesh Network Data (Not Synthetic Garbage)"

Dev.to AI
Machine Learning AI Research

Most mesh network AI papers train on synthetic topology data. They generate random graphs, simulate traffic, and report accuracy numbers that look great in a paper. Then you point them at a real network with flaky links, power-cycling nodes, and actual human traffic patterns - and everything collapses. We didn't do that. We trained on 31 days of real data from GuifiSants - one of the world's largest community mesh networks in Barcelona. Here's how we built a Graph Neural Network that actually works in the wild.