A proposet network topology for low cost scenarios in a large scale network within a smart city

Abstract

This study aims to explore some of the different network technologies and topologies that can be used tomanage many nodes in a smart city. In addition, the study focused more on those that offered low costs. The study seeks to answer the research question “ What is themost adequate proposed topology for low costs scenarios in a smart city? ” The goal here is to state the various topologies available, compare and contrast them, thereby ascertaining the best for some very specific scenarios. Since the advent of IoT, people have always had to choose the most suitable topology for a given set of nodes, so as to leverage the communication between them and cut down costs. With the evolution of IoT, more topologies have been created, some were made for very specific cases while others were more generalised. There have been constant waves of these topologies over the last few years used in several cases in a smart city setup. Because of this, researchers and embedded systems engineers have performed numerous studies analysing different aspects of network topologies such as the communication range, the maximum number of nodes, the transmission and reception data rates and so on, but one thing that hasn’t been studied is whether or not there’s one that is superior to all the others in terms of efficacy. This study is going to include an in depth research into the network topologies, their features, and the contrasts between them. Specific use case scenarios will be given, whereby it will necessary to employ the most encompassing topology technique to fit the application.