Intelligent Municipal Heritage Management Service in a Smart City: Telecommunication Traffic Characterization and Quality of Service

The monitoring of cultural heritage is becoming common in cities to provide heritage preservation and prevent vandalism. Using sensors and video cameras for this task implies the need to transmit information. In this paper, the teletraffic that cameras and sensors generate is characterized and the t...

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Published inWireless communications and mobile computing Vol. 2019; no. 2019; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors Pla, Vicent, Gomez-Sacristan, Angel, Jiang, Zhuhan, Rodriguez-Hernandez, Miguel A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2019
Hindawi
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Bandwidths
Camcorders
Cameras
Communications networks
Communications systems
Communications traffic
Computer simulation
Councils
Cultural heritage
Cultural resources
Humidity
Infrastructure
Management
Multimedia
Quality of service
Quality of service architectures
Sensors
Simulation
Smart cities
Surveillance
Traffic models
Vandalism
Vibration
Video transmission
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Summary:The monitoring of cultural heritage is becoming common in cities to provide heritage preservation and prevent vandalism. Using sensors and video cameras for this task implies the need to transmit information. In this paper, the teletraffic that cameras and sensors generate is characterized and the transmissions’ influence on the municipal communications network is evaluated. Then, we propose models for telecommunication traffic sources in an intelligent municipal heritage management service inside a smart sustainable city. The sources were simulated in a smart city scenario to find the proper quality of service (QoS) parameters for the communication network, using Valencia City as background. Specific sensors for intelligent municipal heritage management were selected and four telecommunication traffic sources were modelled according to real-life requirements and sensors datasheet. Different simulations were performed to find the proper CIR (Committed Information Rate) and PIR (Peak Information Rate) values and to study the effects of limited bandwidth networks. Packet loss, throughput, delay, and jitter were used to evaluate the network’s performance. Consequently, the result was the selection of the minimum values for PIR and CIR that ensured QoS and thus optimized the traffic telecommunication costs associated with an intelligent municipal heritage management service.
ISSN:1530-8669
1530-8677
DOI:10.1155/2019/8412542