Impact of compression and small cell deployment on NB-IoT devices’ coverage and energy consumption with a realistic simulation model

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Zeinali, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-9696-6528 and Thompson, J., 2021. Impact of compression and small cell deployment on NB-IoT devices’ coverage and energy consumption with a realistic simulation model. Sensors, 21 (19): 6534. ISSN 1424-8220

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21196534

Abstract

In the last few years, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technologies have been proposed for Machine-Type Communications (MTC). In this paper we evaluate wireless relay technologies that can improve LPWAN coverage for smart meter communication applications. We provide a realistic coverage analysis using a realistic correlated shadow fading map and path loss calculation for the environment. Our analysis shows significant reductions in the number of MTC devices in outage from by deploying either small cells or Device to Device (D2D) communications. In addition, we analysed the energy consumption of the MTC devices for different data packet sizes and Maximum Coupling Loss (MCL) values. Finally, we study how compression techniques can extend the battery lifetime of MTC devices.

Item Type:

Journal article

Publication Title:

Sensors

Creators:

Zeinali, M. and Thompson, J.

Publisher:

MDPI

Date:

30 September 2021

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Number:

ISSN:

1424-8220

Identifiers:

Number	Type
10.3390/s21196534	DOI
1474463	Other

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Schools > School of Science and Technology

Record created by:

Laura Ward

Date Added:

01 Oct 2021 09:57

Last Modified:

09 Nov 2021 16:30

URI:

https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/44302