Urban Digital Infrastructure, Smart Cityism, and Communication

Land Supply and Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth

A power line communication network infrastructure for the smart home

Low voltage electrical wiring in homes has largely been dismissed as too noisy and unpredictable to support high speed communication signals. However, recent advances in communication and modulation methodologies as well as in adaptive digital signal processing and error detection and correction have spawned novel media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) protocols, capable of support...

A Smart Communication Infrastructure for Future Energy System Applications

The use of the Internet in conjunction with Web-based technologies provides potentials for optimizing the operation of distributed energy systems. Both energy providers as well as energy consumers benefit from innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT). By communicating all relevant processes, like meter reading, grid monitoring and management, to the electric grids’ endpoi...

A communication infrastructure for smart environments: a position article

With the today’s state-of-the-art technology, miniature sensors and actuators can be manufactured and integrated with electronics onto extremely small footprint devices. Such devices could be embedded into different platforms, turning the ambience into a highly controllable, supportive, and cooperative environment. Applications of this technology can be easily envision in nearly every aspect of...

MmWave vehicle-to-infrastructure communication: Analysis of urban microcellular networks

Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication may provide high data rates to vehicles via millimeter-wave (mmWave) microcellular networks. This paper uses stochastic geometry to analyze the coverage of urban mmWave microcellular networks. Prior work used a pathloss model with a line-of-sight probability function based on randomly oriented buildings, to determine whether a link was line-of-sight...