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Figure 2. Smart home 5G network slicing Credit: Dzogovic et al.
Smart Home Security Slice
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eMBB Network Slice
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Massive IoT Slice
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including tablets, smartphones, cameras, and laptops. Users can gain access to this network slice through a single, comprehensive subscription for home and mobile devices for individuals or an entire household. In contrast to eMBB, the Massive IoT network slice ensures lower data rate connectivity for low- power devices, such as sensors (smoke/gas detectors, motion sensors, proximity sensors, and so on), and other home appliances, including coffee machines, washing machines, air conditioners, electric cookers, and refrigerators. The next section discusses the benefits of 5G’s capacity to accommodate both high data rate- intensive and low-power devices.
wearable sensor adoption, and the potential for device miniaturisation (discussed later). Existing smart home devices face significant challenges [4] in terms of their ability to communicate and interact with each other. Providing a solution to these limitations, 5G offers a unified wireless standard [5] , which offers users’ smart home ecosystems a significant boost in interoperability. Moreover, the low latency of the technology allows users and stakeholders to see rapid improvements in smart home functions, some of which are covered in the following subsections.
Benefits of 5G for smart home applications 5G exhibits faster broadband speeds than Wi-Fi 5 and its preceding iterations. It offers a LPWAN (low-power wide-area network), making it suitable for smart home products that rely on reliable and constant connectivity. With its high capacity and wireless infrastructure, the technology respectively allows the connection of more devices than a local network-enabled smart home system and limited reliance on existing wired infrastructure. 5G technology also offers other benefits in a wide range of smart home applications, including improved interoperability, low latency, enhanced encryption, advanced connectivity, increased
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