scholarly journals A Robust UWSN Handover Prediction System Using Ensemble Learning

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5777
Author(s):  
Esraa Eldesouky ◽  
Mahmoud Bekhit ◽  
Ahmed Fathalla ◽  
Ahmad Salah ◽  
Ahmed Ali

The use of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) for collaborative monitoring and marine data collection tasks is rapidly increasing. One of the major challenges associated with building these networks is handover prediction; this is because the mobility model of the sensor nodes is different from that of ground-based wireless sensor network (WSN) devices. Therefore, handover prediction is the focus of the present work. There have been limited efforts in addressing the handover prediction problem in UWSNs and in the use of ensemble learning in handover prediction for UWSNs. Hence, we propose the simulation of the sensor node mobility using real marine data collected by the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency. These data include the water current speed and direction between data. The proposed simulation consists of a large number of sensor nodes and base stations in a UWSN. Next, we collected the handover events from the simulation, which were utilized as a dataset for the handover prediction task. Finally, we utilized four machine learning prediction algorithms (i.e., gradient boosting, decision tree (DT), Gaussian naive Bayes (GNB), and K-nearest neighbor (KNN)) to predict handover events based on historically collected handover events. The obtained prediction accuracy rates were above 95%. The best prediction accuracy rate achieved by the state-of-the-art method was 56% for any UWSN. Moreover, when the proposed models were evaluated on performance metrics, the measured evolution scores emphasized the high quality of the proposed prediction models. While the ensemble learning model outperformed the GNB and KNN models, the performance of ensemble learning and decision tree models was almost identical.

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Ala’ Khalifeh ◽  
Khalid A. Darabkh ◽  
Ahmad M. Khasawneh ◽  
Issa Alqaisieh ◽  
Mohammad Salameh ◽  
...  

The advent of various wireless technologies has paved the way for the realization of new infrastructures and applications for smart cities. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are one of the most important among these technologies. WSNs are widely used in various applications in our daily lives. Due to their cost effectiveness and rapid deployment, WSNs can be used for securing smart cities by providing remote monitoring and sensing for many critical scenarios including hostile environments, battlefields, or areas subject to natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and floods or to large-scale accidents such as nuclear plants explosions or chemical plumes. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new framework where WSNs are adopted for remote sensing and monitoring in smart city applications. We propose using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to act as a data mule to offload the sensor nodes and transfer the monitoring data securely to the remote control center for further analysis and decision making. Furthermore, the paper provides insight about implementation challenges in the realization of the proposed framework. In addition, the paper provides an experimental evaluation of the proposed design in outdoor environments, in the presence of different types of obstacles, common to typical outdoor fields. The experimental evaluation revealed several inconsistencies between the performance metrics advertised in the hardware-specific data-sheets. In particular, we found mismatches between the advertised coverage distance and signal strength with our experimental measurements. Therefore, it is crucial that network designers and developers conduct field tests and device performance assessment before designing and implementing the WSN for application in a real field setting.


2020 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Anju Sangwan ◽  
Rishipal Singh

In the hostile areas, deployment of the sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks is one of the basic issue to be addressed. The node deployment method has great impact on the performance metrics like connectivity, security and resilience. In this paper, a technique based on strong keying mechanism is proposed which will enhance the security of a non-homogeneous network using the random deployment of the nodes. For this, the q-composite key pre-distribution technique is presented with new flavor that will enhance the network size as well as the security level in comparison to the existing techniques. The technique ensures the k-connectivity among the nodes with a redundant method to provide backup for failed nodes. In the simulation section, the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using NS-2 based upon the real model MICAz. A discussion based on various obtained results is also given in the paper.


Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a worldwide concern that influences roughly 10% of the grown-up population on the world. For most of the people the early diagnosis of CKD is often not possible. Therefore, the utilization of present-day Computer aided supported strategies is important to help the conventional CKD finding framework to be progressively effective and precise. In this project, six modern machine learning techniques namely Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network, Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor, Decision Tree, Logistic regression were used and then to enhance the performance of the model Ensemble Algorithms such as ADABoost, Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, Majority Voting, Bagging and Weighted Average were used on the Chronic Kidney Disease dataset from the UCI Repository. The model was tuned finely to get the best hyper parameters to train the model. The performance metrics used to evaluate the model was measured using Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1-score, Mathew`s Correlation Coefficient and ROC-AUC curve. The experiment was first performed on the individual classifiers and then on the Ensemble classifiers. The ensemble classifier like Random Forest and ADABoost performed better with 100% Accuracy, Precision and Recall when compared to the individual classifiers with 99.16% accuracy, 98.8% Precision and 100% Recall obtained from Decision Tree Algorithm


Author(s):  
Zhixiong Li ◽  
Dazhong Wu ◽  
Tianyu Yu

Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) has been widely used in the semiconductor industry to create planar surfaces with a combination of chemical and mechanical forces. A CMP process is very complex because several chemical and mechanical phenomena (e.g., surface kinetics, electrochemical interfaces, contact mechanics, stress mechanics, hydrodynamics, and tribochemistry) are involved. Predicting the material removal rate (MRR) in a CMP process with sufficient accuracy is essential to achieving uniform surface finish. While physics-based methods have been introduced to predict MRRs, little research has been reported on monitoring and predictive modeling of the MRR in CMP. This paper presents a novel decision tree-based ensemble learning algorithm that can train the predictive model of the MRR. The stacking technique is used to combine three decision tree-based learning algorithms, including the random forests (RF), gradient boosting trees (GBT), and extremely randomized trees (ERT), via a meta-regressor. The proposed method is demonstrated on the data collected from a CMP tool that removes material from the surface of wafers. Experimental results have shown that the decision tree-based ensemble learning algorithm using stacking can predict the MRR in the CMP process with very high accuracy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 6073-6087
Author(s):  
Meltem Yontar ◽  
Özge Hüsniye Namli ◽  
Seda Yanik

Customer behavior prediction is gaining more importance in the banking sector like in any other sector recently. This study aims to propose a model to predict whether credit card users will pay their debts or not. Using the proposed model, potential unpaid risks can be predicted and necessary actions can be taken in time. For the prediction of customers’ payment status of next months, we use Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Classification and Regression Tree (CART) and C4.5, which are widely used artificial intelligence and decision tree algorithms. Our dataset includes 10713 customer’s records obtained from a well-known bank in Taiwan. These records consist of customer information such as the amount of credit, gender, education level, marital status, age, past payment records, invoice amount and amount of credit card payments. We apply cross validation and hold-out methods to divide our dataset into two parts as training and test sets. Then we evaluate the algorithms with the proposed performance metrics. We also optimize the parameters of the algorithms to improve the performance of prediction. The results show that the model built with the CART algorithm, one of the decision tree algorithm, provides high accuracy (about 86%) to predict the customers’ payment status for next month. When the algorithm parameters are optimized, classification accuracy and performance are increased.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vimalarani ◽  
R. Subramanian ◽  
S. N. Sivanandam

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network which formed with a maximum number of sensor nodes which are positioned in an application environment to monitor the physical entities in a target area, for example, temperature monitoring environment, water level, monitoring pressure, and health care, and various military applications. Mostly sensor nodes are equipped with self-supported battery power through which they can perform adequate operations and communication among neighboring nodes. Maximizing the lifetime of the Wireless Sensor networks, energy conservation measures are essential for improving the performance of WSNs. This paper proposes an Enhanced PSO-Based Clustering Energy Optimization (EPSO-CEO) algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network in which clustering and clustering head selection are done by using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm with respect to minimizing the power consumption in WSN. The performance metrics are evaluated and results are compared with competitive clustering algorithm to validate the reduction in energy consumption.


Author(s):  
Tom Hayes ◽  
Falah Ali

The improved availability of sensor nodes has caused an increase in the number of researchers studying sensor networks. More recently, the introduction of mobility to these networks has been able to find solutions and create applications that were previously not possible. For this reason, this chapter firstly introduces the topic of mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs). It then explores the potential applications of the technology and discusses the challenges and requirements of the communications systems with a focus on routing. It also looks at performance metrics and evaluation techniques in terms of mathematical analysis, simulations and testbed implementations.


Author(s):  
Anju Sangwan ◽  
Rishipal Singh

In the hostile areas, deployment of the sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks is one of the basic issue to be addressed. The node deployment method has great impact on the performance metrics like connectivity, security and resilience. In this paper, a technique based on strong keying mechanism is proposed which will enhance the security of a non-homogeneous network using the random deployment of the nodes. For this, the q-composite key pre-distribution technique is presented with new flavor that will enhance the network size as well as the security level in comparison to the existing techniques. The technique ensures the k-connectivity among the nodes with a redundant method to provide backup for failed nodes. In the simulation section, the performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using NS-2 based upon the real model MICAz. A discussion based on various obtained results is also given in the paper.


Author(s):  
Soomin Hyun ◽  
Woojin Park

Developing quantitative models that predict discomfort levels of working postures has been an important ergonomics research topic. Such modeling not only has practical applications, but also may serve as a useful research method to improve our understanding of the human postural discomfort perception process. While the existing models have focused on achieving high prediction accuracy, less attention has been given to model interpretability, which is vital for understanding a process through modeling. Research is needed to identify the model types or modeling methods that offer high interpretability as well as good prediction accuracy. The goal of this study was to evaluate the utility of the Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) decision tree modeling method in developing postural discomfort prediction models. Ten individual-specific decision tree models were developed, which predicted overall upper-body discomfort from local body part discomfort ratings. The prediction models were found to achieve high prediction accuracy and interpretability. (150 words)


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Mohammed Saad Talib

Energy in Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) represents an essential factor in designing, controlling and operating the sensor networks. Minimizing the consumed energy in WSNs application is a crucial issue for the network effectiveness and efficiency in terms of lifetime, cost and operation. Number of algorithms and protocols were proposed and implemented to decrease the energy consumption. Principally, WSNs operate with battery-powered sensors. Since Sensor's batteries have not been easily recharge.  Therefore, prediction of the WSN represents a significant concern. Basically, the network failure occurs due to the inefficient sensor's energy. MAC protocols in WSNs achieved low duty-cycle by employing periodic sleep and wakeup. Predictive Wakeup MAC (PW-MAC) protocol was made use of the asynchronous duty cycling. It reduces the consumption of the node energy by allowing the senders to predict the receiver′s wakeup time. The WSN must be applied in an efficient manner to utilize the sensor nodes and their energy to ensure effective network throughput. To ensure energy efficiency the sensors' duty cycles must be adjusted appropriately to meet the network traffic demands. The energy consumed in each node due to its switching between the active and idle states was also estimated. The sensors are assumed to be randomly deployed. This paper aims to improve the randomly deployed network lifetime by scheduling the effects of transmission, reception and sleep states on the energy consumption of the sensor nodes. Results for these states with much performance metrics were also studied and discussed.   


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