Narrow Band Internet of Things

By Min Chen, Yiming Miao, Yixue Hao, Kai Hwang. 2017

394 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of the narrow-band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). We first introduce NB-IoT general background, development history, and standardization. Then, we present NB-IoT features through the review of current national and international studies on NB-IoT technology, where we focus on basic theories and key technologies, i.e., connection count analysis theory, delay analysis theory, coverage enhancement mechanism, ultra-low power consumption technology, and coupling relationship between signaling and data. Subsequently, we compare several performances of NB-IoT and other wireless and mobile communication technologies in aspects of latency, security, availability, data transmission rate, energy consumption, spectral efficiency, and coverage area. Moreover, we analyze five intelligent applications of NB-IoT, including smart cities, smart buildings, intelligent environment monitoring, intelligent user services, and smart metering. Finally, we summarize security requirements of NB-IoT, which need to be solved urgently. These discussions aim to provide a comprehensive overview of NB-IoT, which can help readers to understand clearly the scientific problems and future research directions of NB-IoT.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Billy Pik Lik Lau
2. Michele De Donno
3. Zibin Zheng
4. Wei Ni
5. Chau Yuen
6. Mehran Abolhasan
7. Yuren Zhou
8. Yan Zhang

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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2. U-Xuan Tan
3. Yuren Zhou
4. Meng Zhang
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7. Michele De Donno
8. Zibin Zheng

Citations in the corpus

• A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, background): “…low-latency, and cost-effective communication technologies and networks, such as, 5G [27]–[29], wireless sensor networks (WSN) [30]–[32], Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) [33], [34], and Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) [35], [36] and their integration in smart city projects is also relentless.”
• Broadband Analog Aggregation for Low-Latency Federated Edge Learning (2018, neutral): “, LTE for narrow-band Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) [28].”
• A Systematic Survey of Industrial Internet of Things Security: Requirements and Fog Computing Opportunities (2020, background): “[223] list a number of security requirements in a review of the Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) standard.”
• Anatomy of Threats to the Internet of Things (2019, background): “The main advantage that NB-IoT has over LoRaWAn and Sigfox is that being in a licensed frequency band, NB-IoT is based on an international standard defined by 3GPP [51].”
• Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey (2019, background): “, less than 100 meters) while LPWAN technologies can provide the coverage from 1km to 10 km [12]–[14].”