TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 18, No 4: August 2020

Machine learning based lightweight interference mitigation scheme for wireless sensor network

Ali Suzain (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Rozeha A. Rashid (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
M. A. Sarijari (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
A. Shahidan Abdullah (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Omar A. Aziz (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2020

Abstract

The interference issue is most vibrant on low-powered networks like wireless sensor network (WSN). In some cases, the heavy interference on WSN from different technologies and devices result in life threatening situations. In this paper, a machine learning (ML) based lightweight interference mitigation scheme for WSN is proposed. The scheme detects and identifies heterogeneous interference like Wifi, bluetooth and microwave oven using a lightweight feature extraction method and ML lightweight decision tree. It also provides WSN an adaptive interference mitigation solution by helping to choose packet scheduling, Acknowledgement (ACK)-retransmission or channel switching as the best countermeasure. The scheme is simulated with test data to evaluate the accuracy performance and the memory consumption. Evaluation of the proposed scheme’s memory profile shows a 14% memory saving compared to a fast fourier transform (FFT) based periodicity estimation technique and 3% less memory compared to logistic regression-based ML model, hence proving the scheme is lightweight. The validation test shows the scheme has a high accuracy at 95.24%. It shows a precision of 100% in detecting WiFi and microwave oven interference while a 90% precision in detecting bluetooth interference.

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TELKOMNIKA

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Subject

Computer Science & IT

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