Evolving Networking Technologies

7Challenges and Opportunities in Smart City Network Management Through Blockchain and Cloud Computing

Jayden Pires¹, Vinod Kumar Shukla¹, Leena Wanganoo², Sonali Vyas³

¹ Department of Engineering and Architecture Amity University, Dubai, UAE

² University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

³ School of Computer Application, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India

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Abstract

With the idea of new developing technologies and the rapid change in our technical environment, there is a need for smarter, more efficient technology to keep up with the needs of today’s world. Thus, the idea of smart cities has come into being. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the idea of building a smart city and providing a framework for future development of the same. We are moving towards a more futuristic world where everything is connected and done over the internet, which will create more network dependency.

The problem with the concept of smart cities is the need for better technologies to improve the system of data transfer to address the problem of trust in the system, as massive amounts of people’s private data is at stake with bad actors trying to hack the system to gain access to it. There is also the problem of the massive amounts of data produced in smart cities, so there is a need to provide a framework to efficiently store all the data.

These problems can ...