Network Architecture Design for Floating Cities

Abstract

Increasing population and the need to realize sustainable living necessitates finding alternative housing solutions when land resources are insufficient. A suitable solution is ocean based future cities. These cities have subscribers requiring network connectivity to access content like existing terrestrial network subscribers. Therefore, communication networks should be designed for floating city subscribers. This paper presents the network architecture for a floating city network suited for floating city subscribers. The research presents the architecture and computing entities required to realize cloud computing capability in the proposed network architecture. In addition, the presented research proposes new role for networking architecture in the context of the blue economy and the realization of future human living spaces.