Mining associated patterns from wireless sensor networks
- Authors: Rashid, Md. Mamunur , Gondal, Iqbal , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Transactions on Computers Vol. 64, no. 7 (2015), p. 1998-2011
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- Description: Mining of sensor data for useful knowledge extraction is a very challenging task. Existing works generate sensor association rules using occurrence frequency of patterns to extract the knowledge. These techniques often generate huge number of rules, most of which are non-informative or fail to reflect true correlation among sensor data. In this paper, we propose a new type of behavioral pattern called associated sensor patterns which capture association-like co-occurrences as well as temporal correlations which are linked with such co-occurrences. To capture such patterns a compact tree structure, called associated sensor pattern tree (ASP-tree) and a mining algorithm (ASP) are proposed which use pattern growth-based approach to generate all associated patterns with only one scan over dataset. Moreover, when data stream flows through, old information may lose significance for the current time. To capture significance of recent data, ASP-tree is further enhanced to SWASP-tree by adopting sliding observation window and updating the tree structure accordingly. Finally, window size is made dynamically adaptive to ensure efficient resource usage. Different characteristics of the proposed techniques and their computational complexity are presented. Experimental results show that our approach is very efficient in discovering associated sensor patterns and outperforms existing techniques.
Share-frequent sensor patterns mining from wireless sensor network data
- Authors: Rashid, Md. Mamunur , Gondal, Iqbal , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Vol. 26, no. 12 (2015), p. 3471-3484
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- Description: Mining interesting knowledge from the huge amount of data gathered from WSNs is a challenge. Works reported in literature use support metric-based sensor association rules which employ the occurrence frequency of patterns as criteria. However, consideration of the binary frequency of a pattern is not a sufficient indicator for finding meaningful patterns because it only reflects the number of epochs which contain that pattern in the dataset. The share measure of sensorsets could discover useful knowledge about trigger values associated with a sensor. Here, we propose a new type of behavioral pattern called share-frequent sensor patterns (SFSPs) by considering the non-binary frequency values of sensors in epochs. SFSPs can find a correlation among a set of sensors and hence can improve the performance of WSNs in a resource management process. In this paper, a share-frequent sensor pattern tree (ShrFSP-Tree) has been proposed to facilitate a pattern growth mining technique to discover SFSPs from WSN data. We also present a parallel and distributed method where the ShrFSP-Tree is enhanced into PShrFSP-Tree and its performance is investigated for both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. Results show that our method is time and memory efficient in finding SFSPs than the existing most efficient algorithms.