Towards Time Sensitive Networking on Smart Cities: Techniques, Challenges, and Solutions

Understand

Smart cities transform urban landscapes with interconnected nodes and sensors.

• The search for seamless communication in time-critical scenarios has become evident during this evolution.
• With the escalating complexity of urban environments, envisioning a future with a blend of autonomous and conventional systems, each demanding distinct quality-of-service considerations, services in smart cities vary in criticality levels and necessitate differentiated traffic handling, prioritizing critical flows without compromising the network's reliability or failing on hard real-time requirements.
• To tackle these challenges, in this article, we discuss a time-sensitive networking approach, which presents multi-faceted challenges, notably interoperability among diverse technologies and standards at the scale of a smart city network.