Data Mining is a process that analyzes a large amount of data to find new and hidden information that improves business efficiency. Various industries have been adopt data mining to their mission-critical business processes to gain competitive advantages and help business grows. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a technique in the Data mining system. This paper depicts the research issues on prediction of network traffic via association rule mining. Concurrently, it also paves a way for budding researchers to overcome the issues in Association Rule Mining.