SEWMS: An edge‐based smart wearable maintenance system in communication network. (17th December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rui, Lanlan; Qin, Yabin; Li, Biyao; Wang, Ying; Huang, Haoqiu
• Other Names: Ranjan Rajiv guestEditor.; Villari Massimo guestEditor.; Shen Haiying guestEditor.; Rana Omer guestEditor.; Buyya Rajkumar guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Software, practice & experience. Volume 50:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 611
• Page End: 629
• Publication Date: 2019-12-17
• Subjects: communication network -- edge computing -- information push -- internet of things -- maintenance -- wearable; Computer software -- Periodicals; Computer programming -- Periodicals; Computer programs -- Periodicals; 005.3
• DOI: 10.1002/spe.2775
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-0644

Abstract

Summary: The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable technology provides an opportunity for the development of maintenance of communication. The use of wearable technology and instant messaging technology of IoT can improve the support capabilities and data interaction ability of on‐site maintenance of the communication network. Existing communication maintenance systems lack real‐time operation and maintenance of data interaction. In the field operation decision‐making and execution process, there are problems of lack of field links and inconvenient information interaction. On‐site maintenance mainly relies on maintenance personnel to actively search for information, and the retrieval results are lacking of personalization, which makes it difficult to meet the needs of on‐site maintenance of the communication network. Edge computing and information push technology can solve these problems to some extent. In this paper, we focus on the current low level in information, complicated scenes, and various information of on‐site maintenance and propose a dynamic context‐aware information push algorithm. The simulation results demonstrate that the algorithm delivers good performance in terms of precision, recall, and F1. Besides, we present a smart wearable maintenance system, an edge computing–assisted IoT platform for the real‐time guidance of technical experts and systems for on‐site maintenance personnel, aiming to improve the efficiency and quality of on‐site maintenance.