TY - GEN
T1 - NB-IoT network field trial - Indoor, outdoor and underground coverage campaign
AU - Malik, Hassan
AU - Khan, Sikandar Zulqarnain
AU - Sarmiento, Jeffrey Leonel Redondo
AU - Kuusik, Alar
AU - Alam, Muhammad Mahtab
AU - Le Moullec, Yannick
AU - Parand, Sven
N1 - ”This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 668995. This material reflects only the authors view and the EC Research Executive Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.” Furthermore, the authors would like to thank Telia Estonia, especially Henri-Paul Ariste and Neeme Joearu for their help and close cooperation for the measurement campaign.
PY - 2019/7/22
Y1 - 2019/7/22
N2 - Recent advancements in cellular technologies allow discrete computing devices embedded with sensors to communicate over long distances with low-cost and low-energy consumption. This could drastically impact the future internet of thing (IoT) ecosystem. In this regard, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has introduced a new cellular-based technology called Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) which is one of the potential technologies for enabling IoT application in vehicular, health-care, industry 4.0, etc. However, NB-IoT technology is still in its infancy and so far it is unclear whether it is sufficiently reliable to complement or replace existing short-range and cellular technologies to enable such use-case scenarios. Therefore, this paper presents a preliminary investigation of the coverage of NB-IoT in three different scenarios i.e., outdoor, indoor, and underground with empirical measurements, one of the key performance indicators in which operators are most interested. The measurements were conducted on Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) campus and nearby residential areas within a range of 700 m. The obtained results indicate that NB-IoT is able to provide good connectivity to meet the IoT application requirements in outdoor and indoor environments. However, for an underground scenario with the beam enabled for 700 m, it is only possible to provide connectivity to the devices up to 400 m. Furthermore, it is also observed that NB-IoT is able to provide connectivity to devices with a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value as low as -105 dBm as compared to -95 dBm as in long-term evolution (LTE).
AB - Recent advancements in cellular technologies allow discrete computing devices embedded with sensors to communicate over long distances with low-cost and low-energy consumption. This could drastically impact the future internet of thing (IoT) ecosystem. In this regard, Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has introduced a new cellular-based technology called Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) which is one of the potential technologies for enabling IoT application in vehicular, health-care, industry 4.0, etc. However, NB-IoT technology is still in its infancy and so far it is unclear whether it is sufficiently reliable to complement or replace existing short-range and cellular technologies to enable such use-case scenarios. Therefore, this paper presents a preliminary investigation of the coverage of NB-IoT in three different scenarios i.e., outdoor, indoor, and underground with empirical measurements, one of the key performance indicators in which operators are most interested. The measurements were conducted on Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) campus and nearby residential areas within a range of 700 m. The obtained results indicate that NB-IoT is able to provide good connectivity to meet the IoT application requirements in outdoor and indoor environments. However, for an underground scenario with the beam enabled for 700 m, it is only possible to provide connectivity to the devices up to 400 m. Furthermore, it is also observed that NB-IoT is able to provide connectivity to devices with a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value as low as -105 dBm as compared to -95 dBm as in long-term evolution (LTE).
KW - Coverage
KW - Cumulocity
KW - Deployment
KW - Indoor
KW - IoT
KW - IoT cloud platform
KW - Measurement campaign
KW - NB-IoT
KW - Outdoor
KW - RSSI
KW - Underground
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U2 - 10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766568
DO - 10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766568
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073910794
T3 - 2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019
SP - 537
EP - 542
BT - 2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019
PB - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
T2 - 15th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -
