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Analyzing and Evaluating Smart Cities for Iot Based on Use Cases Using the Analytic Network Process Hindawi Mobile Information Systems Volume 2021, Article ID 6674479, 13 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6674479 Research Article Analyzing and Evaluating Smart Cities for IoT Based on Use Cases Using the Analytic Network Process Chao Huang 1 and Shah Nazir 2 1Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 2Department of Computer Science, University of Swabi, Swabi, Pakistan Correspondence should be addressed to Chao Huang; [email protected] and Shah Nazir; [email protected] Received 28 December 2020; Revised 11 January 2021; Accepted 18 January 2021; Published 23 February 2021 Academic Editor: Mian Ahmad Jan Copyright © 2021 Chao Huang and Shah Nazir. *is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With the passage of time, the world population is growing. Proper utilization of resources and other devices is tremendously playing an important role to easily examine, manage, and control the resources of the Internet of *ings (IoT) in the smart city. Research in the field of IoT has revolutionized the services mostly in smart cities. In the smart city, the applications of IoT are utilized without human involvement. Diverse IoT devices are connected with each other and communicate for different tasks. With the existence of a huge number of IoT devices in the forthcoming years, the chances of privacy breach and information leakage are increasing. Billions of devices connected on IoT producing huge volume of data bound to cloud for processing, management, and storage. Sending of whole data to the cloud might create risk of security and privacy. Various needs of the smart city should be considered for both urgent and effective solutions to support requirements of the growing population. On the other side of rising technology, the IoTevolution has massively produced diverse research directions for the smart city. Keeping in view the use cases of the smart city, the proposed study presents the analytic network process (ANP) for evaluating smart cities. *e approach of ANP works well in the situation of complexity, and vagueness exists among the available alternatives. *e ex- perimental results of the planned approach show that the approach is effective for evaluating the smart cities for IoT based on the use cases. 1. Introduction forthcoming years, the chances of privacy breach and in- formation leakage are increasing. Billions of devices con- With the passage of time, the population of the world is nected on IoT producing huge volume of data bound to rising. According to the United Nations report, the pop- cloud for processing, management, and storage. Sending of ulation of the world will increase by 2.5 billion in 2050. whole data to the cloud might create risk of security and About 55% of the world populations exists in cities, and it is privacy. *e paradigm of cloud computing subjugated estimated that, in the coming 30 years, this percentage will through fog computing and acted as a channel between reach 68% [1]. Such incredible rise in population will give cloud and IoT. birth to diverse challenges and issues on cities. *ese issues Various approaches are being practiced by practitioners can include sustainability management and urban areas and researchers for diverse issues of smart cities. Sadhukhan development of smart cities. Research in the field of IoT has [2] proposed an approach as appropriate framework for the revolutionized the services mostly in smart cities. In the services of smart city relying on IoTfor addressing the issues smart city, the applications of IoT are utilized without hu- of internet connectivity in smart city and to deal with man involvement. Diverse IoT devices are connected with heterogeneous technologies. Sabrina [3] proposed a model each other and communicate for different tasks. With the of structural relationship-based access control that can be existence of a huge number of IoT devices in the used as an agent for the access of rights to resources for users 2 Mobile Information Systems in the scenario of IoT at large scale. *e model used public defined networking paradigm to equip the IoT based smart blockchain and smart contracts to manage access control for city. *e approach mounts privacy preserving for accom- users that are external and with a local off-blockchain plishing packets of data flowing of split IoT device data. storage to manage access control for internal users of the Several simulations were done by Mininet-WiFi for showing organization. Lee et al. [4] suggested the function of service efficiency of the approach. Alamgir Hossain et al. [10] have platform and whole architecture with details of the uses of used the concept of edge computing for empowering state platform with the help of analyzing road surface as a case awareness in IoT based smart city and for minimizing the study. *e study analyzed the data services which can be latency of the edge devices producing data to be moved to associated with the applications of smart city and recom- cloud. From the user endpoint, huge data is produced, so mended generic directions of the services of urban data for processing of this data can expressively increase perfor- services of advanced city. Li et al. [5] presented a semi- mance. *e results of the experiments showed that pro- automated process of role mapping for the setting of cessing IoT raw data at the devices of edge delivers dynamic accesses of smart city enabling access control. situational awareness and is efficient for latency smart city Mora-Sanchez´ et al. [6] proposed scalability complaint decision makers. Araujo et al. [11] studied the performance infrastructure as a validation approach consisting of the assessment of FIWARE, which is a platform of cloud based properties of interoperability, modularity, and resilience. IoT. *e results were gathered from widespread perfor- *e approach is relying on the top practices accomplished mance assessment and developed testbed and produced during a living lab at the Smart Cities Innovation Center in MQTT and CoAp data for emulating IoT deployments at Universidad de Guadalajara implementation. Gebru et al. [7] large scale. addressed the prospect of quantifying flow and detection of Meng et al. [12] presented blockchain empowered single people in the street of city to implementation of commercial character frequency-based ESM building a confirmable sensors linked with the network of 5G capturing analyses of database of malicious payloads through blockchain. In the WiFi communicated through smartphones of people. *e assessment, the performance of the method was investigated issues and motivation of these scenarios were outlined. After under flooding character padding attacks in the real IoT and this, the study illustrated the proposed approach and pre- simulated surroundings. Sharma et al. [13] used multicriteria sented the results obtained from live measurement in a decision-making methods and acknowledged 15 imple- testbed employed in Turin city within the project of 5G-EVE. mentations’ IoT barriers from the existing literature hin- *e contributions of the planned study are given as follows: dering the implementation of IoT in smart cities in India. *e acknowledged IoT barriers were investigated by ap- (i) To present the ANP approach for assessing smart proach of total interpretative structure model. *e Fuzzy cities Matrices’ Impacts Croises Multiplication Classement model, (ii) To plot the smart cities according to the criteria the decision-making trial, and evaluation laboratory ap- defined for the available alternatives to achieve a proach were used. Serrano [14] presented blockchain ran- specific goal of smart city dom neural network for the applications of cybersecurity in (iii) Results of the proposed approach show that the a complete physical and digital cybersecurity user and approach is effective for evaluating the smart cities channel methods of authentication. *e approach empowers for IoT based on the use cases the gaps, the confidential identity can be mined, and at- tackers can be identified. Abbas et al. [15] achieved two *e paper is organized as follows: Section 2 shows the objectives in the study: the first is the enhancement of literature on the diverse issues of the smart cities. Section 3 Narrowband Internet of *ings spectral efficiency, while the briefly shows the methodology with the background of the second one is to lessen the burden of signaling during smart cities use cases and the approach of the ANP for transmission request for SMs. Koumetio Tekouabou et al. assessing the smart cities. *e paper is concluded in Section [16] proposed a system that integrated the predictive model 4. based on ensemble approaches and IoT for optimizing the expectation of space availability in the smart parking. *e 2. Related Work Birmingham parking dataset was endorsed for reaching a Mean Absolute Error of 0.06% by applying Bagging re- Various approaches are in practice by researchers and gression. Pimpinella et al. [17] proposed smart urban routing practitioners for smart city. Rout et al. [8] presented a model services designed for cyclists and pedestrians disposed of of IoTnetwork based on technique of fuzzy logic data fusion movements in the city. *e system allows retrieving the top for IoT. *e process of data fusion estimates the congestion route between a location of the source and destination based of location specific through human input and sensory data on the defined objective function of the user. from the crowd. An open-source routing engine computes Srinivasa Desikan et al. [18] offered techniques of to- the congestion-aware shortest route through retorting to live pology control for managing and constructing network of updates of traffic in network of road. Besides, a node of IoT for large-scale smart city. *e problem of topology sensor has been intended to gather the speed and emissions control was approached in two phases, the construction and of moving vehicles on the road.
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