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Outline
Future Cities and its Challenges
Future Vision
Why Mobility?
Will current models handle this vision?
Does technology matter?
How to handle heterogeneity in mobile environments?
How far are we?
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3. 3
Future Cities and its Challenges
Source: SmartSantander
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4. 4
Future Cities and its Challenges
Everything connected…
… everywhere
… while moving
Enormous amount of connected elements
How to handle scalability?
Heterogeneous technology environment
Which technology to connect where?
How to support seamless services?
Seamless inter-technology and mobile environment
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How to handle heterogeneity in mobile environments?
Use it in our benefit!
Opportunistically access through (and move to) the best connection
Take into account
Location
Movement
Technology (WiFi, DSRC/WAVE, Cellular, …)
. Range
. Bandwidth
. Cost
. Mobility penalty
Services and requirements
Patterns (history, usually visited places)
Preferences
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How far are we?
Research rapidly evolving
Individual problems being solved
But… the issues are very broad
Integration is the key!
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Thank You!
susana@ua.pt
Credits to: Tiago Condeixa,André Cardote, Filipe Neves, Jorge Dias