Optimizing Density-Based Ant Colony Stream Clustering Using FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator

In the era of IoT, a massive amount of data will be generated from various sensors and corresponding IoT devices. Density-based Ant Colony Stream Clustering (ACSC) is one of the best solutions for big data processing for real-world applications, due to its many inherent traits. Also, FPGAs are one of the best avenues to support/accelerate complex algorithms, such as ACSC. In this paper, we introduce an FPGA-based hardware accelerator for ACSC, which achieves maximum speedups of 603 and 2.5 vs. its software counterparts on embedded processor and PC, respectively, without compromising cluster accuracy. No similar FPGA-based ACSC hardware accelerator exists in the literature.