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The Role of 5G and IoT in Smart Cities

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Smart Cities are envisioned to offer its citizens a plethora of services that are aimed at optimizing the use of public assets and improving the quality/efficiency of the regular activities. The performance of these services are reliant on the inter-networking of information between the different and disjointed systems with overlapping purposes. The information exchange process will likely involve the communication of large volumes of data with a range of complex requirements that are application-specific. In this chapter, the role of the 5G systems and Internet of Things (IoT) for meeting such stringent requirements are discussed along with the essential constituents of a successful Smart City infrastructure.

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Acknowledgements

This research is partly funded by the Advanced Sensor Networks SARChI Chair program, co-hosted by University of Pretoria (UP) and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Attahiru Sule Alfa

  2. Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Attahiru Sule Alfa, Bodhaswar T. Maharaj & Babatunde Awoyemi

  3. Department of Engineering and Computer Science, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, USA

    Haitham Abu Ghazaleh

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Alfa, A.S., Maharaj, B.T., Ghazaleh, H.A., Awoyemi, B. (2018). The Role of 5G and IoT in Smart Cities. In: Maheswaran, M., Badidi, E. (eds) Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97271-8_2

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