BE AHEAD IN CONNECTING EVERYTHING – NARROWBAND IoT (NB-IoT)

Downlink OFDMA Allowed LTE resource blocks (in-band) Coverage enhancement Service capability exposure function (SCEF)
15 kHz LTE system bandwidth 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 12 MHz 20 MHz Introduction of coverage enhancement (CE) levels
UE eNB
CE0, 1 and 2 specifying:
LTE PRB indices for NB-IoT 02,12 02, 07, 17, 04, 09, 14, 02, 07, 17, 04, 09, 14, ► Number of repetitions of physical access Broadcast Communication Subscription Context Control
synchronization 22 19, 30, 35, 22, 27, 32, 19, 24, 29, Random access preamble
channels
40, 45 42, 47, 52, 34, 39, 44, ► Number of allowed ­attempts (NPRACH)
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max 128 repetitions
Triggering Identity Presence Security
180 kHz 57, 62, 67, 55, 60, 65,

Time Window RAR

72 70, 75, 80,
► Time window size for Data delivery Monitor Location N/W control
– Random Access Response (RAR) Random access response Smart agriculture
85, 90, 95 – Contention Resolution (CR)
max 2048 repetitions ●
High latency Services
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Initial CE level defined based on signal measure-
Pets LTE in-band operation ments can be changed in case that the access
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Group
failed

m3 Non-IP messages via c-plane Smart home

Smart meter
S1-MME MME T6a SCEF Rest API
LTE guardband operation
Connected bike
cloT cloT
Telematics
UE BS
IP messages via c-plane
Smart can
Standalone operation S1-U S-GW S5 P-GW SGi

IP/non-IP messages via u-plane Smart city

Smart suitcase

Uplink SC-FDMA eDRX PSM WUS NB-IoT link channel assignment

Power consumption

15 kHz

Power consumption
Power consumption
3.75 kHz Uplink Downlink
TX TX TX
RRC idle mode Idle Power saving mode RRC idle mode
CCCH DCCH DTCH PCCH BCCH CCCH DCCH DTCH Smart factory
logical
Smoke detector Paging

RRC connected

RRC connected
RRC connected

RRC connected
RRC connected

RRC connected
WUS Opt. Opt.
Paging time window (PTM) T3324
RACH UL-SCH PCH BCH DL-SCH
RX RX Periodic WUS receiver RX transport
Glossary: sleep sleep
BS = base station; cIoT = cellular IoT; CoAP = constrainted application protocol (IETF standard); DTLS = datagram transport WUS
layer security; eDRX = extended discontinuous reception (3GPP); HTTP = hypertext transport protocol (IETF standard);
IoT = internet of things; LwM2M = lightweight M2M (OMA standard); MME = mobility management entity; eDRX cycle length e.g. send T3412 extended value DRX cycle
MQTT = message queue telemetry transport (ISO standard); NB-IoT = narrowband 3GPP technology for IoT; physical
OFDMA = orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access; OneM2M = common M2M service layer specified by (LTE-M: 5.12 s; 10.24 s … 2621.44 s) (…; 54 min; …; 310 hours; …)
oneM2M partner; P-GW = PDN gateway; PSM = power saving mode (3GPP); SCEF = service capability exposure f­ unction; NPRACH NPUSCH NPDSCH NBCH NPDCCH
SC-FDMA = single carrier - frequency division multiple access; S-GW = serving gateway; SMS = short message service;
(NB-IoT: 20.48 s; 40.96 s … 10 485.76 s) Healthcare
TLS = transport layer security; WUS = wake-up signal

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