Publication detail

Exploiting NB-IoT Network Performance and Capacity for Smart-Metering Use-Cases

ŠTŮSEK, M. MAŠEK, P. DVOŘÁK, R. LE DINH, T. MOŽNÝ, R. ZEMAN, K. OMETOV, A. ČÍKA, P. MLÝNEK, P. HOŠEK, J.

Original Title

Exploiting NB-IoT Network Performance and Capacity for Smart-Metering Use-Cases

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The requirements introduced in directive 2019/944 of the European Parliament for the smart metering scenarios, which differ from the ones defined in ITU-R M.2410, accelerated the integration of cellular technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). Requiring a permanent connection to the cellular network (radio resource control in a connected state) and more synchronous-oriented data transmissions led to selecting the Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology as the main enabler for the secured data transmissions. This paper focuses on the features introduced by 3GPP in Release 13, i.e., user plane and control plane optimization, and Release 15 early data transmissions (EDT) for the smart metering scenarios. Our simulation results confirm that EDT is a powerful feature for decreasing transmission delay and improving spectrum efficiency with reduced overheads. Our results show that the transmission delay is reduced by over 50%. Notably, the data indicates EDT significantly improves latency for smaller messages (for Release 13, less than 97B in uplink and 57B in downlink). Finally, the results confirm that an NB-IoT network (3GPP Release. 13; NB1) can manage 1000 smart meters per single base station communicating in a 15minutes window.

Keywords

NB-IoT; Smart metering; Network performance; Network capacity; NS-3; LENA-NB

Authors

ŠTŮSEK, M.; MAŠEK, P.; DVOŘÁK, R.; LE DINH, T.; MOŽNÝ, R.; ZEMAN, K.; OMETOV, A.; ČÍKA, P.; MLÝNEK, P.; HOŠEK, J.

Released

1. 11. 2023

Location

Gent, Belgium

ISBN

979-8-3503-9328-6

Book

In proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT).

Pages from

193

Pages to

199

Pages count

7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT185596,
  author="Martin {Štůsek} and Pavel {Mašek} and Radim {Dvořák} and Dinh Thao {Le} and Radek {Možný} and Kryštof {Zeman} and Aleksandr {Ometov} and Petr {Číka} and Petr {Mlýnek} and Jiří {Hošek}",
  title="Exploiting NB-IoT Network Performance and Capacity for Smart-Metering Use-Cases",
  booktitle="In proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT).",
  year="2023",
  pages="193--199",
  address="Gent, Belgium",
  isbn="979-8-3503-9328-6"
}