Random Phase Multiple Access Network Planning for Smart City Deployment in Urban Area

Abstract

A smart city is an area of the town that integrates Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). It has a multitude of smart environment services, such as smart energy and utilities, smart mobility and transportation, and smart living, combined with the day-to-day municipal administration to boost efficiency, enhance public services, and better the well-being of citizens. A reliable Internet of Things (IoT) network is required to deliver and enable these features seamlessly. Therefore, based on capacity and coverage planning, this research aims to plan the Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) network for smart city deployment in an urban area, namely Bandung city. It is obtained that the required number of gateways for capacity planning is twelve gateways, while for coverage planning, it is only one gateway. Once the calculation results on both capacity and coverage planning are acquired, these results are then simulated using a network simulator software, Forsk Atoll. The assessment of the simulations is done in two categories: the best signal level and the overlapping zones. The simulations results show that RPMA is plausible for smart city deployment in Bandung city with the range for the signal level received is from -70 dBm to -120 dBm with an average received signal level of -59.43 dBm, while the mean value of the overlapping zone is 1.24 server.