Understanding Network Requirements for Smart City Applications: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Smart cities are contemporary revolutions that can handle the complexities of growing urban density. Smart applications reside in the cloud datacenter, where Internet of Everything devices or sources access these applications to obtain city services. Accessing applications from the distant cloud implies higher latency, huge network traffic, and possibilities of security and privacy breaches. These issues are not sustainable for real-time applications. This article describes network requirements and challenges faced by applications and solutions to encounter them.