Paper Info
Title
Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective
Abstract
Today, about 6.5 billion “things” are connected to the public space. While this sounds like a lot, still less than 1% of all the things that are surrounding us and could be connected are actually utilizing this opportunity. Hence, the question is why all these devices are not equipped with wireless connectivity? In some cases, they are either too remote, too inaccessible, or there are simply too many of them to make it economically viable. To mitigate this gap, a promising solution emerges, which has the potential to become an enabler for true mass market IoT. In this paper, we discuss a professional point of view expressed by Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. As Vodafone has been one of the first in Europe to complete a commercial Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network roll-out, we build upon this long-term cooperation. First, we discuss the potential of NB-IoT for mass market applications. Then, we offer unique expert findings that reflect the operator's considerations during implementation, testing, measuring, and evaluating this new 3GPP-ratified communications technology. Moreover, we outline our prototype design of the NB-IoT device and discuss the architecture challenges. Also, the configuration required on the side of a mobile operator is detailed to have NB-IoT communications ready to take off. Finally, we summarize the results obtained in our lab along with numerous field tests that we run during a long-term cooperation between the research partners.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644487
2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things,Long Term Evolution,Telecommunications,Testing,Industries,Business,Prototypes
Enabling,Architecture,Public space,Telecommunications,Computer science,Internet of Things,Computer network,NarrowBand IOT,Operator (computer programming),Information and Communications Technology,Mass market
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2166-0069
978-1-5386-4920-6
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pavel Masek17420.39
Martin Stusek2209.19
Krystof Zeman352.91
Jiri Hosek45618.73
Konstantin Mikhaylov518431.02
Sergey Andreev641061.79
Yevgeni Koucheryavy71748168.45
Otto Zeman840.82
Jakub Votapek930.46
Martin Roubicek1040.82