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These ever-increasing data demands require not only more and more capacity of the transmission channels but also results in resource over-provision to meet the resilience requirements, thus the unavoidable waste as a result of the data fluctuations throughout the day. In addition, the high energy consumption (EC) and carbon discharge from these data transmissions posing serious issues to the environment we live in. Therefore, to overcome the issues of intensive EC and carbon emission (CE) of massive data dissemination in SCs, we propose an energy-efficient and carbon reduction approach by using the daily mobility of the existing vehicles as an alternative communications channel to accommodate the data dissemination in SCs. To illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach, we take the Auckland City in New Zealand as an example, assuming massive data generated by various sources geographically scattered throughout the Auckland region, to the control centres located in the city. Results obtained show that our proposed approach can provide up to four times faster transferring the large volume of data by using the existing daily vehicles\u2019 mobility, than the conventional transmission network. Moreover, our proposed approach offers about 32% less EC and CE than that of conventional network transmission approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19214735","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,31]],"date-time":"2019-10-31T06:33:29Z","timestamp":1572503609000},"page":"4735","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Energy-Efficient Massive Data Dissemination through Vehicle Mobility in Smart Cities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2153-8902","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Salman","family":"Naseer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"},{"name":"Department of Information Technology, University of the Punjab Gujranwala Campus, Gujranwala 52250, Pakistan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"William","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2770-8319","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nurul I","family":"Sarkar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"22","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2014.2306328","article-title":"Internet of things for smart cities","volume":"1","author":"Zanella","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"(2019, September 05). 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