An Adaptive Ensemble Framework for Addressing Concept Drift in IoT Data Streams

Abstract: In the modern era of digital transformation, the evolution of the fifth-generation (5G) wireless network has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing communication technology and accelerating the growth of smart technology applications. Enabled by the high-speed, low-latency characteristics of 5G, these applications have shown significant potential in various sectors, from healthcare and transportation to energy management and beyond. As a crucial component of smart technology, IoT systems for service delivery often face concept drift issues in network data stream analytics due to dynamic IoT environments, resulting in performance degradation. In this article, we propose a drift-adaptive framework called Adaptive Exponentially Weighted Average Ensemble (AEWAE) consisting of three stages: IoT data preprocessing, base model learning, and online ensembling. It is a data stream analytics framework that integrates dynamic adjustments of ensemble methods to tackle various scenarios. Experimental results on two public IoT datasets demonstrate that our proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving high accuracy and efficiency in IoT data stream analytics.