Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction

The quality of internet connection is important in our daily life as people are becoming more dependent on it. To reduce internet connection problems, internet service providers (ISP) are proactively predicting and identifying network faults before it occurs. One of the network fault prediction meth...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.111032023-04-17T08:22:28Z Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction 2020-12 Kok, Leonard Jin Yin TK5101-6720 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television The quality of internet connection is important in our daily life as people are becoming more dependent on it. To reduce internet connection problems, internet service providers (ISP) are proactively predicting and identifying network faults before it occurs. One of the network fault prediction methods is by classifying incoming network data from Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server. Although RADIUS data provide useful accounting information such as total download, cause of termination, etc., it does not provide any indication whether the network is faulty or not. A customer trouble ticket (CTT) is often raised by network user when he/she faces an internet connection problem. In this thesis, a method is proposed to annotate network data by correlating RADIUS data and CTT using temporal interval relations. Once RADIUS data are labelled, a network fault prediction model can be trained. However, performance of the prediction model is greatly affected by class imbalance problem, where the number of faulty cases is relatively rare. One of the challenges in addressing class imbalance problems for network fault prediction is the overlapping between faulty and non-faulty classes, which mainly due to unreported network issues. This thesis proposes a method based on edited nearest neighbours (ENN), Tomek-link and SMOTE to address the class overlapping and class imbalance problems. The findings showed that RADIUS data annotated with our method achieved a higher recall and precision rate. The F1-score and AUC results showed that our proposed method has greatly improved class imbalance learning for network fault prediction. 2020-12 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/11103/ http://erep.mmu.edu.my/ masters Multimedia University Faculty of Management EREP ID: 10280
institution Multimedia University
collection MMU Institutional Repository
topic TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
spellingShingle TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
Kok, Leonard Jin Yin
Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
description The quality of internet connection is important in our daily life as people are becoming more dependent on it. To reduce internet connection problems, internet service providers (ISP) are proactively predicting and identifying network faults before it occurs. One of the network fault prediction methods is by classifying incoming network data from Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server. Although RADIUS data provide useful accounting information such as total download, cause of termination, etc., it does not provide any indication whether the network is faulty or not. A customer trouble ticket (CTT) is often raised by network user when he/she faces an internet connection problem. In this thesis, a method is proposed to annotate network data by correlating RADIUS data and CTT using temporal interval relations. Once RADIUS data are labelled, a network fault prediction model can be trained. However, performance of the prediction model is greatly affected by class imbalance problem, where the number of faulty cases is relatively rare. One of the challenges in addressing class imbalance problems for network fault prediction is the overlapping between faulty and non-faulty classes, which mainly due to unreported network issues. This thesis proposes a method based on edited nearest neighbours (ENN), Tomek-link and SMOTE to address the class overlapping and class imbalance problems. The findings showed that RADIUS data annotated with our method achieved a higher recall and precision rate. The F1-score and AUC results showed that our proposed method has greatly improved class imbalance learning for network fault prediction.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Kok, Leonard Jin Yin
author_facet Kok, Leonard Jin Yin
author_sort Kok, Leonard Jin Yin
title Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
title_short Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
title_full Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
title_fullStr Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
title_full_unstemmed Class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
title_sort class imbalance learning for network fault prediction
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Faculty of Management
publishDate 2020
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