Session

Computer Science and Communication Engineering

Description

Network virtualisation is a concept that has been around for some time now, but the concept of network slicing is more recent and only started to be mentioned in the context of 5G. In essence, network slicing is a specific form of network virtualisation that enables sharing of physical resources by multiple logical network slices used to serve different applications and use cases. One such a use case would be to allocate network resources to small things, e.g. sensors and very low power consumption objects. To allow these small objects access to network resources or to a slice of such resource, a new technology known as NB-IoT is being developed by different industry players. This paper provides an overview of NB-IoT technology and Network Slicing concept and how this concept is applied to allocate network resources to very tiny objects and things. Finally, this paper will analyse the overall performance of NB-IoT in terms of power saving and battery life using eDRX saving mechanism.

Keywords:

Network Slicing, IoT, NB-IoT, 5G

Session Chair

Zhilbert Tafa

Session Co-Chair

Xhafer Krasniqi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-69-1

First Page

51

Last Page

58

Location

Pristina, Kosovo

Start Date

27-10-2018 1:30 PM

End Date

27-10-2018 3:00 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.99

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Oct 27th, 1:30 PM Oct 27th, 3:00 PM

NB-IoT: A Network slice for Massive IoT

Pristina, Kosovo

Network virtualisation is a concept that has been around for some time now, but the concept of network slicing is more recent and only started to be mentioned in the context of 5G. In essence, network slicing is a specific form of network virtualisation that enables sharing of physical resources by multiple logical network slices used to serve different applications and use cases. One such a use case would be to allocate network resources to small things, e.g. sensors and very low power consumption objects. To allow these small objects access to network resources or to a slice of such resource, a new technology known as NB-IoT is being developed by different industry players. This paper provides an overview of NB-IoT technology and Network Slicing concept and how this concept is applied to allocate network resources to very tiny objects and things. Finally, this paper will analyse the overall performance of NB-IoT in terms of power saving and battery life using eDRX saving mechanism.