sensors Article Moving towards IoT Based Digital Communication: An Efficient Utilization of Power Spectrum Density for Smart Cities Tariq Ali 1,*, Abdullah S. Alwadie 1, Abdul Rasheed Rizwan 2, Ahthasham Sajid 3 , Muhammad Irfan 1 and Muhammad Awais 4 1 Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia;
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[email protected] Received: 8 April 2020; Accepted: 14 May 2020; Published: 18 May 2020 Abstract: The future of the Internet of Things (IoT) is interlinked with digital communication in smart cities. The digital signal power spectrum of smart IoT devices is greatly needed to provide communication support. The line codes play a significant role in data bit transmission in digital communication. The existing line-coding techniques are designed for traditional computing network technology and power spectrum density to translate data bits into a signal using various line code waveforms. The existing line-code techniques have multiple kinds of issues, such as the utilization of bandwidth, connection synchronization (CS), the direct current (DC) component, and power spectrum density (PSD). These highlighted issues are not adequate in IoT devices in smart cities due to their small size.