@misc{10481/68240,
year = {2017},
month = {11},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68240},
abstract = {Large-scale deployments of massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)
involve several challenges on cellular networks. To address the challenges of mMTC, or
more generally, Internet of Things (IoT), the 3rd Generation Partnership Project has
developed NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) as part of Release 13. NB-IoT is designed to
provide better indoor coverage, support of a massive number of low-throughput devices,
with relaxed delay requirements, and lower-energy consumption. NB-IoT reuses Long
Term Evolution functionality with simplifications and optimizations. Particularly for small
data transmissions, NB-IoT specifies two procedures to reduce the required signaling:
one of them based on the Control Plane (CP), and the other on the User Plane (UP). In
this work, we provide an overview of these procedures as well as an evaluation of their
performance. The results of the energy consumption show both optimizations achieve
a battery lifetime extension of more than 2 years for a large range in the considered
cases, and up to 8 years for CP with good coverage. In terms of cell capacity relative to
SR, CP achieves gains from 26% to 224%, and UP ranges from 36% to 165%. The
comparison of CP and UP optimizations yields similar results, except for some specific
configurations.},
organization = {This work is partially supported by the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and
the European Regional Development Fund (Projects TIN2013-46223-P, and TEC2016-76795-
C6-4-R), and the Spanish Ministry of Education,
Culture and Sport (FPU Grant 13/04833).},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
title = {NarrowBand IoT Data Transmission Procedures for Massive Machine Type Communications},
doi = {10.1109/MNET.2017.1700081},
author = {Andres-Maldonado, Pilar and Ameigeiras Gutiérrez, Pablo José and Prados Garzón, Jonathan and Navarro Ortiz, Jorge and López Soler, Juan Manuel},
}