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Potential of mMTC Support over Low Earth Orbit Systems: Challenges and Preliminary Assessment

PALUŘÍK, P.; ŠTŮSEK, M.; MOLTCHANOV, D.; MAŠEK, P.; MIKHAYLOV, K.; DVOŘÁK, R.; LE, D.; MOŽNÝ, R.; HOŠEK, J.

Original Title

Potential of mMTC Support over Low Earth Orbit Systems: Challenges and Preliminary Assessment

English Title

Potential of mMTC Support over Low Earth Orbit Systems: Challenges and Preliminary Assessment

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is evolving at an unprecedented pace, enabling new applications in both civilian and industrial sectors. A large body of new use cases, such as maritime applications or forestry, requires service provisioning in remote regions, where terrestrial connectivity does not always exist. The recent 3GPP initiative to extend the 5G connectivity to non-terrestrial segments may allow massive machine-type communication (mTC) services to be provided ubiquitously. The aim of this study is to first outline the challenges related to the non-terrestrial implementation of the mMTC radio interface and then perform a preliminary assessment of one of the leading 5G mTC technologies, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), for non-terrestrial communications provisioned by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Our results indicate that with the current NB-IoT releases, communication at the LEO is feasible without any major changes in standard numerology. Notably, a transmission power of less than 45 dBm is required to achieve a block error rate (BLER) <10% with only a single repetition for transport block size (TBS) of up to 408 bits.

English abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) market is evolving at an unprecedented pace, enabling new applications in both civilian and industrial sectors. A large body of new use cases, such as maritime applications or forestry, requires service provisioning in remote regions, where terrestrial connectivity does not always exist. The recent 3GPP initiative to extend the 5G connectivity to non-terrestrial segments may allow massive machine-type communication (mTC) services to be provided ubiquitously. The aim of this study is to first outline the challenges related to the non-terrestrial implementation of the mMTC radio interface and then perform a preliminary assessment of one of the leading 5G mTC technologies, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), for non-terrestrial communications provisioned by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Our results indicate that with the current NB-IoT releases, communication at the LEO is feasible without any major changes in standard numerology. Notably, a transmission power of less than 45 dBm is required to achieve a block error rate (BLER) <10% with only a single repetition for transport block size (TBS) of up to 408 bits.

Keywords

Non-Terrestrial Networks; NB-IoT; 5G NTN; mMTC; LEO

Key words in English

Non-Terrestrial Networks; NB-IoT; 5G NTN; mMTC; LEO

Authors

PALUŘÍK, P.; ŠTŮSEK, M.; MOLTCHANOV, D.; MAŠEK, P.; MIKHAYLOV, K.; DVOŘÁK, R.; LE, D.; MOŽNÝ, R.; HOŠEK, J.

RIV year

2026

Released

26.11.2024

ISBN

978-3-8007-6544-7

Book

ICUMT 2024; 16th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops

Pages from

1

Pages to

7

Pages count

7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT194109,
  author="Pavel {Paluřík} and Martin {Štůsek} and Dmitri {Moltchanov} and Pavel {Mašek} and Konstantin {Mikhaylov} and Radim {Dvořák} and Dinh Thao {Le} and Radek {Možný} and Jiří {Hošek}",
  title="Potential of mMTC Support over Low Earth Orbit Systems: Challenges and Preliminary Assessment",
  booktitle="ICUMT 2024; 16th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops",
  year="2024",
  pages="1--7",
  isbn="978-3-8007-6544-7"
}