MD-MARS: Maintainability Framework Based on Data Flow Prediction Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Network

The demand for Wireless Sensor Networks is increasing day by day because of their diverse nature. Due to the limited energy, it is a complex task to retract the sensor node after deployment. So, there is a requirement for network maintainability before the deployment phase for its smooth working. It is achieved in three phases: hardware of the sensor node, communication and external environmental phase. This paper focuses on network maintainability in the communication phase. A novel framework MD-MARS is presented to enhance the network maintainability. This framework is classified into three phases namely analysis of performance parameters, data flow optimization and maintainability evaluation. In the initial phase, the performance parameter is analyzed using NS2 simulator. The next phase deals with data flow optimization using a machine learning algorithm. It reduces congestion and enhances network performance. The proposed algorithm is finely tuned to different degrees using the Grid Search approach to achieve the highest accuracy. The best model is selected based on accuracy and minimizes the prediction error. This algorithm predicts with the highest accuracy of 99.83%, lowest being 21.17%. Maintainability is achieved in the last phase using the total time taken to optimize the data flow. Several observations of repair time are determined for the best-tune model during the prediction of optimized data flow. These observations are used to calculate the mean time to repair, standard deviation, probability density function, maintainability and repair rate. The maximum maintainability achieved in this paper is 97.67% at a repair time of 26.07 milliseconds.