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An Effective Dynamic Spectrum Access based Network Architecture for Smart Cities
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (2018, Kansas City, MO)
  • Vijay K. Shah
  • Simone Silvestri, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Shameek Bhattacharjee
  • Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

According to the Smart City Council, an adequate telecommunications infrastructure is vital for the success of businesses, industries as well as residents of future Smart Cities. However, currently available network technologies, such as 3/4G, GSM, LTE, and LTE-A, are rapidly reaching their limit mainly due to spectrum scarcity, cross technology interference and increased traffic demand. Such limitations are only going to worsen in the next years, due to the advent of Internet of Things technologies that are expected to interconnect billions of devices to the Internet. Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) has been proposed to overcome such limitations and exploit unused spectrum resources over multiple electro-magnetic spectrum bands. In this paper, we propose a DSA-based architecture in which DSA radio devices are deployed on the Smart City's urban vehicles (e.g., public buses, taxis, municipal vehicles, etc.), that act as data mules to gather and forward the various types of data. This results in a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) in which devices can operate over multiple bands, if available. Given lack of research in efficient routing schemes for such networks, we first compare existing DTN routing approaches designed for standard (or single band) DTNs, such as Epidemic Routing and Spray and Wait, in urban DSA scenarios and show that they are largely inefficient. Subsequently, we propose extensions to these approaches in order to better exploit the availability of multiple bands in a DSA paradigm. Results on realistic traces based on the map of Lexington, KY, USA, show that the modified approaches improve the network performance, such as successful message delivery and network latency, however, at the expense of very high energy expenditure and message overhead. Hence, we conclude by pointing out that further research is needed, since significant performance improvements are still possible by designing routing schemes that are specifically tailored for DSA Smart City networks.

Meeting Name
2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2018 (2018: Sep. 16-19, Kansas City, MO)
Department(s)
Computer Science
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Second Research Center/Lab
Center for Research in Energy and Environment (CREE)
Third Research Center/Lab
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Comments
This research is partially supported by the NSF grants CNS-1545037, CNS-1545050, and CNS-1919942, and NATO grant G4936.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Delay Tolerant Network,
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access,
  • Internet of Things,
  • Routing,
  • Smart Cities
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-153865959-5
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
9-1-2019
Publication Date
01 Sep 2019
Disciplines
Citation Information
Vijay K. Shah, Simone Silvestri, Shameek Bhattacharjee and Sajal K. Das. "An Effective Dynamic Spectrum Access based Network Architecture for Smart Cities" Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (2018, Kansas City, MO) (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sajal-das/145/