A mapreduce based technique for mining behavioral patterns from sensor data

WSNs generate a large amount of data in the form of streams, and temporal regularity in occurrence behavior is considered as an important measure for assessing the importance of patterns in WSN data. A frequent sensor pattern that occurs after regular intervals in WSNs is called regularly frequent sensor patterns (RFSPs). Existing RFSPs techniques assume that the data structure of the mining task is small enough to fit in the main memory of a processor. However, given the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), WSNs in future will generate huge volume of data, which means such an assumption does not hold any longer. To overcome this, a distributed solution using MapReduce model has not yet been explored extensively. Since MapReduce is becoming the de-facto model for computation on large data, an efficient RFSPs mining algorithm on this model is likely to provide a highly effective solution. In this work, we propose a regularly frequent sensor patterns mining algorithm called RFSP-H which uses MapReduce based framework. Extensive performance analyses show that our technique is significantly time efficient in finding regularly frequent sensor patterns. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015