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According to a report of United Nations, more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. In response to the enormous challenges of urbanization such as traffic congestion and environmental pollution, many cities embrace the Smart City concept to optimize city operations. This course aims to find out "What made Smart City smart" by exploring the key building blocks of Smart City, which are sensors, networks, and data analysis technologies.
This book focuses on the fundamental issues of networking as well as approaches towards addressing these issues. Proceeding from the application layer toward the physical layer, it features a layered approach in a top-down manner, and according to the top-down philosophy, after the introductory Chapter 1, Chapters 2 through 5 need to be studied in sequence. Each of the last three chapters depends on the material in the first five chapters, but no compulsive order between these three. This book also features the Internet, using the Internet protocols as a vehicle for studying some of the more fundamental computer networking concepts.
