Chapter 3

Software defined things: a green network management for future smart city architectures

Ö.U. Akgül
B. Canberk    Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

The control framework in modern cities highly relies on human-centralized management that dependently brings the latency and failure in many critical real-time applications. The insufficiency of centralized human control mechanism over cities’ resource and function management framework led the evolution of the smart city concept that essentially counts on the communications between different networks. However, the deployment of electronic components that can carry both the decision-making mechanisms and the functional capacity ...

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