A Primer on 3GPP Narrowband Internet of Things

By Y.-P. Eric Wang, Xingqin Lin, Ansuman Adhikary, Asbjörn Grövlen, Yutao Sui, Y. Blankenship, Johan Bergman, H. Shokri-Razaghi. 2016

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Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new cellular technology introduced in 3GPP Release 13 for providing wide-area coverage for IoT. This article provides an overview of the air interface of NB-IoT. We describe how NB-IoT addresses key IoT requirements such as deployment flexibility, low device complexity, long battery lifetime, support of massive numbers of devices in a cell, and significant coverage extension beyond existing cellular technologies. We also share the various design rationales during the standardization of NB-IoT in Release 13 and point out several open areas for future evolution of NB-IoT.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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