A Machine Learning-Based Framework to Estimate the Lifetime of Network Line Cards

With the increasing tendency on data rates in forthcoming communication networks, availability is a crucial aspect to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The possibility of predicting the lifetime of networking hardware can be a key to improve the overall network QoS. This paper proposes a generic Machine Learning (ML) based framework that learns how to mimic the mathematical model behind the lifetime of network line cards. Results show that a good precision (85%) and recall (close to 100%) on the estimation can be achieved regardless the type of line cards the network is composed of.