The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key enabler of smart cities, where a variety
of applications proliferate to help citizen services. As different IoT applications have
different service holders, it becomes necessary to employ network slicing (NS) to gain
distinct virtual networks, and differentiated quality of service (QoS) guarantees. Other
than conventional IoT scenarios, smart city IoT relies on 6G networks for broad
coverage, ultra-low latency, and reliable connection. This chapter proposes a selforganizing
network (SON) driven network slicing architecture, where software-defined
networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) also play important
roles. Some preliminary simulation results are given to validate the efficiency of our
design.
Keywords: Intelligent Network Slicing, Internet of Things, Self-organizing
Network, Software-defined Networking.
