TY - GEN
T1 - Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT): Performance Evaluation in 5G Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
AU - MALIK, HASSAN
AU - Redondo Sarmiento, Jeffrey Leonel
AU - Alam, Muhammad Mahtab
AU - Ali Imran, Muhammad
PY - 2019/10/7
Y1 - 2019/10/7
N2 - Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a promising cellular technology for enabling future low power wireless area networks (LPWANs). NB-IoT aims to provide seamless connectivity to massive IoT devices that require low throughput, low power, and long-range communication. NB-IoT is based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) with a system bandwidth of 180 KHz. Due to such limited bandwidth requirement, NB-IoT can be deployed within the LTE band. However, considering the future heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNet) comprising of multiple small cells operating under a macro cell environment. In this case, when NB-IoT is deployed, the inter-cell interference becomes worse due to the interference from the macro cell users as well. This raises serious concerns on the performance of NB-IoT. Therefore, in this paper, an extensive investigation of NB-IoT performance in terms of throughput and power consumption is presented in different HetNet deployment strategies. Moreover, an evaluation of cooperative resource allocation scheme for NB-IoT is also discussed in detail. The results show a significant impact on the performance of NB-IoT in HetNet environment. It is observed that, with the cooperative scheme, the gains of up to 24% in average throughput and reduction of 72% in energy consumption can be achieved.
AB - Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a promising cellular technology for enabling future low power wireless area networks (LPWANs). NB-IoT aims to provide seamless connectivity to massive IoT devices that require low throughput, low power, and long-range communication. NB-IoT is based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) with a system bandwidth of 180 KHz. Due to such limited bandwidth requirement, NB-IoT can be deployed within the LTE band. However, considering the future heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNet) comprising of multiple small cells operating under a macro cell environment. In this case, when NB-IoT is deployed, the inter-cell interference becomes worse due to the interference from the macro cell users as well. This raises serious concerns on the performance of NB-IoT. Therefore, in this paper, an extensive investigation of NB-IoT performance in terms of throughput and power consumption is presented in different HetNet deployment strategies. Moreover, an evaluation of cooperative resource allocation scheme for NB-IoT is also discussed in detail. The results show a significant impact on the performance of NB-IoT in HetNet environment. It is observed that, with the cooperative scheme, the gains of up to 24% in average throughput and reduction of 72% in energy consumption can be achieved.
KW - NB-IoT
KW - IoT
KW - mMTC
KW - HetNet
KW - Performance Evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073799637&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85073799637&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/04e40147-a411-328d-aac7-8a801806deda/
U2 - 10.1109/CAMAD.2019.8858461
DO - 10.1109/CAMAD.2019.8858461
M3 - Conference proceeding (ISBN)
SN - 978-1-7281-1017-2
T3 - IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, CAMAD
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2019 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2019 IEEE Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networking (CAMAD)
Y2 - 11 September 2019 through 13 September 2019
ER -