Machine experience in an IoT/smart-city environment

目前的电信基础设施是为人类活动和人类应用而设计的，例如语音通话、视频流和网络浏览。随着物联网(IoT)的引入和智慧城市的部署，大量机器将负责一些应用程序，这些应用程序将增强和自动化功能，使城市平稳运行。这种部署产生的电信业务与传统的人工业务有很大不同，最终可能会阻碍当前无线网络的运行。该项目涉及智能城市背景下机器流量的特征以及与该流量相关的应用程序的体验。我们希望研究智能城市应用之间的相互作用，包括移动应用，研究它们对现有和即将到来的电信基础设施的影响，并提出预测性能下降的方法。

The current telecommunication infrastructure is designed for human activities and human applications such as voice calls, video streaming and web browsing. With the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the deployment of smart-cities, a large number of machines will be in charge of a number of applications that will enhance and automate functions for smooth city operation. The telecommunication traffic that results from such a deployment is quite different from traditional human traffic and could, eventually, hinder the operation of current wireless networks. This project deals with the characterization of machine traffic as well as the experience of applications that relate on that traffic in the context of smart-cities. We want to study the interaction among smart-cities applications, including mobility applications, study their impact on current and forthcoming telecommunication infrastructure and propose methods to predict performance degradation.