A New Imputation Technique Based a Multi-Spike Neural Network to Handle Missing Data in the Internet of Things Network (IoT)

Abstract

Over the past decade, the Internet of Thing (IoT) devices have been deployed in wide-scale several applications to collect vast amount of data from different locations in a time-series manner. However, collected data may be missing or damaged due to several issues such as unreliable communications, faulty sensors and synchronization problem that decrees application accuracy. Therefore, a several imputation-based machine learning approaches have been suggested to handle this problem in IoT application. In this study, a new approach is proposed called impute missing data (IMD) based on multi-Spike Neural Network learning method called IMD-SNN, to increase the reliability of missing value imputation in IoT. The method consists of three phases: Inserting missing data, to evaluate the missing values based on the cumulative distribution function (CDF), the multi SNN phase to estimate missing data according to the timestamp and a performance evaluation phase to evaluate an imputation accuracy via made a comparison with two models: imputation based KNN (I-KNN) and Imputation based (I-MLP) model based on resource usage and imputation accuracy assessment metrics. The implementation results have been shown that IMD-SNN utilizes less energy usage in comparison with (I-MLP) model and I-KNN model and gives highest imputation accuracy in contrast with (I-MLP) model and I-KNN model. Also, the IMD-SNN model utilizes less memory usage and needs execution time less than I-MLP model.