Applying the fault diagnosis techniques to twisted pair copper cable is beneficial to improve the stability and reliability of internet access in Digital Subscriber Line(DSL)Access Network System.The network performan...Applying the fault diagnosis techniques to twisted pair copper cable is beneficial to improve the stability and reliability of internet access in Digital Subscriber Line(DSL)Access Network System.The network performance depends on the occurrence of cable fault along the copper cable.Currently,most of the telecommunication providers monitor the network performance degradation hence troubleshoot the present of the fault by using commercial test gear on-site,which may be resolved using data analytics and machine learning algorithm.This paper presents a fault diagnosis method for twisted pair cable fault detection based on knowledge-based and data-driven machine learning methods.The DSL Access Network is emulated in the laboratory to accommodate VDSL2 Technology with various types of cable fault along the cable distance between 100 m to 1200 m.Firstly,the line operation parameters and loop line testing parameters are collected and used to analyze.Secondly,the feature transformation,a knowledge-based method,is utilized to pre-process the fault data.Then,the random forests algorithms(RFs),a data-driven method,are adopted to train the fault diagnosis classifier and regression algorithm with the processed fault data.Finally,the proposed fault diagnosis method is used to detect and locate the cable fault in the DSL Access Network System.The results show that the cable fault detection has an accuracy of more than 97%,with less minimum absolute error in cable fault localization of less than 11%.The proposed algorithm may assist the telecommunication service provider to initiate automated cable faults identification and troubleshooting in the DSL Access Network System.展开更多
Most forest fires in the Margalla Hills are related to human activities and socioeconomic factors are essential to assess their likelihood of occurrence.This study considers both environmental(altitude,precipitation,f...Most forest fires in the Margalla Hills are related to human activities and socioeconomic factors are essential to assess their likelihood of occurrence.This study considers both environmental(altitude,precipitation,forest type,terrain and humidity index)and socioeconomic(population density,distance from roads and urban areas)factors to analyze how human behavior affects the risk of forest fires.Maximum entropy(Maxent)modelling and random forest(RF)machine learning methods were used to predict the probability and spatial diffusion patterns of forest fires in the Margalla Hills.The receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve and the area under the ROC curve(AUC)were used to compare the models.We studied the fire history from 1990 to 2019 to establish the relationship between the probability of forest fire and environmental and socioeconomic changes.Using Maxent,the AUC fire probability values for the 1999 s,2009 s,and 2019 s were 0.532,0.569,and 0.518,respectively;using RF,they were 0.782,0.825,and 0.789,respectively.Fires were mainly distributed in urban areas and their probability of occurrence was related to accessibility and human behaviour/activity.AUC principles for validation were greater in the random forest models than in the Maxent models.Our results can be used to establish preventive measures to reduce risks of forest fires by considering socio-economic and environmental conditions.展开更多
The migration of tasks aided by machine learning(ML)predictions IN(DPM)is a system-level design technique that is used to reduce energy by enhancing the overall performance of the processor.In this paper,we address th...The migration of tasks aided by machine learning(ML)predictions IN(DPM)is a system-level design technique that is used to reduce energy by enhancing the overall performance of the processor.In this paper,we address the issue of system-level higher task dissipation during the execution of parallel workloads with common deadlines by introducing a machine learning-based framework that includes task migration using energy-efficient earliest deadline first scheduling(EA-EDF).ML-based EA-EDF enhances the overall throughput and optimizes the energy to avoid delay and performance degradation in a multiprocessor system.The proposed system model allocates processors to the ready task set in such a way that their deadlines are guaranteed.A full task migration policy is also integrated to ensure proper task mapping that ensures inter-process linkage among the arrived tasks with the same deadlines.The execution of a task can halt on one CPU and reschedule the execution on a different processor to avoid delay and ensure meeting the deadline.Our approach shows promising potential for machine-learning-based schedulability analysis enables a comparison between different ML models and shows a promising reduction in energy as compared with other ML-aware task migration techniques for SoC like Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Networks(MLFNN)based on convolutional neural network(CNN),Random Forest(RF)and Deep learning(DL)algorithm.The Simulations are conducted using super pipelined microarchitecture of advanced micro devices(AMD)XScale PXA270 using instruction and data cache per core 32 Kbyte I-cache and 32 Kbyte D-cache on various utilization factors(u_(i))12%,31%and 50%.The proposed approach consumes 5.3%less energy when almost half of the CPU is running and on a lower workload consumes 1.04%less energy.The proposed design accumulatively gives significant improvements by reducing the energy dissipation on three clock rates by 4.41%,on 624 MHz by 5.4%and 5.9%on applications operating on 416 and 312 MHz standard operating frequencies.展开更多
基金The authors received the funding from Smart Challenge Fund(SR0218I100)GPPS Grant VOT H404,from Ministry of Science,Technology and Innovation Malaysia,and Research Management Centre(RMC)of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(UTHM)。
文摘Applying the fault diagnosis techniques to twisted pair copper cable is beneficial to improve the stability and reliability of internet access in Digital Subscriber Line(DSL)Access Network System.The network performance depends on the occurrence of cable fault along the copper cable.Currently,most of the telecommunication providers monitor the network performance degradation hence troubleshoot the present of the fault by using commercial test gear on-site,which may be resolved using data analytics and machine learning algorithm.This paper presents a fault diagnosis method for twisted pair cable fault detection based on knowledge-based and data-driven machine learning methods.The DSL Access Network is emulated in the laboratory to accommodate VDSL2 Technology with various types of cable fault along the cable distance between 100 m to 1200 m.Firstly,the line operation parameters and loop line testing parameters are collected and used to analyze.Secondly,the feature transformation,a knowledge-based method,is utilized to pre-process the fault data.Then,the random forests algorithms(RFs),a data-driven method,are adopted to train the fault diagnosis classifier and regression algorithm with the processed fault data.Finally,the proposed fault diagnosis method is used to detect and locate the cable fault in the DSL Access Network System.The results show that the cable fault detection has an accuracy of more than 97%,with less minimum absolute error in cable fault localization of less than 11%.The proposed algorithm may assist the telecommunication service provider to initiate automated cable faults identification and troubleshooting in the DSL Access Network System.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2019YFE0127700)。
文摘Most forest fires in the Margalla Hills are related to human activities and socioeconomic factors are essential to assess their likelihood of occurrence.This study considers both environmental(altitude,precipitation,forest type,terrain and humidity index)and socioeconomic(population density,distance from roads and urban areas)factors to analyze how human behavior affects the risk of forest fires.Maximum entropy(Maxent)modelling and random forest(RF)machine learning methods were used to predict the probability and spatial diffusion patterns of forest fires in the Margalla Hills.The receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve and the area under the ROC curve(AUC)were used to compare the models.We studied the fire history from 1990 to 2019 to establish the relationship between the probability of forest fire and environmental and socioeconomic changes.Using Maxent,the AUC fire probability values for the 1999 s,2009 s,and 2019 s were 0.532,0.569,and 0.518,respectively;using RF,they were 0.782,0.825,and 0.789,respectively.Fires were mainly distributed in urban areas and their probability of occurrence was related to accessibility and human behaviour/activity.AUC principles for validation were greater in the random forest models than in the Maxent models.Our results can be used to establish preventive measures to reduce risks of forest fires by considering socio-economic and environmental conditions.
文摘The migration of tasks aided by machine learning(ML)predictions IN(DPM)is a system-level design technique that is used to reduce energy by enhancing the overall performance of the processor.In this paper,we address the issue of system-level higher task dissipation during the execution of parallel workloads with common deadlines by introducing a machine learning-based framework that includes task migration using energy-efficient earliest deadline first scheduling(EA-EDF).ML-based EA-EDF enhances the overall throughput and optimizes the energy to avoid delay and performance degradation in a multiprocessor system.The proposed system model allocates processors to the ready task set in such a way that their deadlines are guaranteed.A full task migration policy is also integrated to ensure proper task mapping that ensures inter-process linkage among the arrived tasks with the same deadlines.The execution of a task can halt on one CPU and reschedule the execution on a different processor to avoid delay and ensure meeting the deadline.Our approach shows promising potential for machine-learning-based schedulability analysis enables a comparison between different ML models and shows a promising reduction in energy as compared with other ML-aware task migration techniques for SoC like Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Networks(MLFNN)based on convolutional neural network(CNN),Random Forest(RF)and Deep learning(DL)algorithm.The Simulations are conducted using super pipelined microarchitecture of advanced micro devices(AMD)XScale PXA270 using instruction and data cache per core 32 Kbyte I-cache and 32 Kbyte D-cache on various utilization factors(u_(i))12%,31%and 50%.The proposed approach consumes 5.3%less energy when almost half of the CPU is running and on a lower workload consumes 1.04%less energy.The proposed design accumulatively gives significant improvements by reducing the energy dissipation on three clock rates by 4.41%,on 624 MHz by 5.4%and 5.9%on applications operating on 416 and 312 MHz standard operating frequencies.
