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Previous chapters have provided a big picture, detailed characteristics and requirements of the SGCN, as well as investigations on candidate communications technologies and networking protocols for this network. As an attempt to identify possible future research trends in the SGCN, this chapter outlines a number of technical challenges and corresponding work directions in this network. Specifically, security, machine-to-machine communications, network coding, cloud computing, software-defined networking, network virtualization, smart grids and smart cities are addressed.
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Ho, QD., Gao, Y., Rajalingham, G., Le-Ngoc, T. (2014). SGCN: Further Aspects and Issues. In: Wireless Communications Networks for the Smart Grid. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10347-1_6
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