Sven Parand

TL;DR: The aim of this survey is to provide a comprehensive overview of the design changes brought in the NB-IoT standardization along with the detailed research developments from the perspectives of Physical and MAC layers.

TL;DR: The detailed design challenges that need to be addressed for the RRM of NB-IoT are presented and a novel framework to devise an efficient resource allocation scheme by exploiting cooperative interference prediction and flexible duplexing techniques is proposed.

TL;DR: A preliminary investigation of the coverage of the Narrowband Internet of Things in three different scenarios i.e., outdoor, indoor, and underground with empirical measurements indicates that NB-IoT is able to provide good connectivity to meet the IoT application requirements in outdoor and indoor environments.

TL;DR: This work presents a thorough investigation of the energy consumption profiling of Radio Resource Control (RRC) communication protocol between an NB-IoT radio transceiver and a cellular base-station, and proposes an empirical baseline energy consumption model.

TL;DR: The results show that the proposed algorithm provides up to 36 % throughput improvement to the NB-IoT UE as compared to Round-Robin and for the same device's locations, the UEs are experiencing relatively better maximum coupling loss (MCL) which results in lower repetition numbers per coverage class.