Chapter 5

NB IoT and Applications

MSc. Nguyen Minh Thi - MSc. Nguyen Khanh Loi
thinm1@viettel.com.vn - nkloi@hcmut.edu.vn
2/2021
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Chapter 4: NB IoT and Application

❖ Introdution
❖ Radio Solutions

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 IoT – Internet of Things

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 IOT vs Internet

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 IOT use cases

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 IoT services variety

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 IOT requirements

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 Massive IoT connectivity – Key Enablers

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 Technology Choices

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 Overview of IoT Components

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 Connectivity options

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 3GPP landscape

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 Radio technology space

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 Radio technology space

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 Radio technology applications

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 LTE-M 1.4 MHz

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 LTE-M 1.4 MHz

Shares the structure with legacy LTE.

LTE design modified by software update
and additional features.
Overhead reduction for optimal
resources utilization and processing
power optimization
Elimination of some LTE DL control
channels: PDCCH, PCFICH and
PHICH.
MPDCCH introduced in Rel 11.
For devices in poor coverage, power
spectral density (PSD) boosting and
repetition can be used in UL and DL.

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 NB-IoT 200kHz

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 Flexible deployment for NB-IoT

• ‘In-band’ utilizing resource blocks

within a normal LTE carrier and
shares some HW and SW resources
with host LTE cell.
• ‘Stand-alone’ utilizing for example
the spectrum currently being used by
GERAN systems as a replacement of
one or more GSM carriers, or as a
brand new cell without resource
sharing with other legacy LTE cells.
• ‘Guard band’ utilizing the unused
resource blocks within a LTE carrier’s
guard-band.
• LTE-M is always using in-band
operation.

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 NB-IoT 200kHz -Downlink Physical Layer

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 NB-IoT 200kHz -Uplink Physical Layer

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 Long battery life –Power savings techniques

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 Long battery life –Power Saving Mode

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 Long battery life –eDRX

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 Low cost devices

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 Low cost devices

❖ Several design choices have been made to enable low-complexity

UE implementation
✓ Low sampling rate due to lower UE bandwidth
✓ Significantly reduced transport block sizes for both downlink and uplink
✓ A UE only requires single antenna
✓ Allow only half-duplex frequency-division duplexing (HD-FDD)
operation
✓ Reduced transmit power (20 dBm)
❖ And specifically for NB-IoT
✓ No need for a turbo decoder at the UE since turbo coding is only used in
uplink
✓ No Connected mode mobility measurement is required. A UE only needs
to perform mobility measurement during the Idle mode
✓ No parallel processing is required. All the physical layer procedures and
transmission and reception of physical channels occur in sequential
manner.

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 Solutions for Coverage improvements

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 Coverage enhancements

Main features to enhance the coverage are the following

❖ Repetitions of transmissions on the physical layer.
✓ Number of repetitions depends on UE coverage. Works in both
uplink and downlink.
❖ Downlink power boosting is possible due to the narrow-band nature of
the signal.
✓ The PRBs containing the IoT signals can be boosted 6 dB (NB-IoT)
or 3 dB (LTE-M) compared to legacy LTE PRBs
❖ Use of narrowband transmissions allows the device to concentrate all the
transmit power in a few PRBs.
✓ Especially NB-IoT benefits from this: ”single-tone” (15 kHz or
even 3.75 kHz) is possible
❖ Note that these features also need to compensate for the low UE output
power and single UE antenna

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 Repetition principle

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