Prototyping of open source NB-IoT network

Chen, Chieh-Chun; Cheng, Ray-Guang; Ho, Chung-Yin; Kanj, Matthieu; Mongazon-Cazavet, Bruno; Nikaein, Navid
GLOBECOM 2020, IEEE Global Communications Conference, 7-11 December 2020, Taipei, Taiwan

Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) is one of the major access technologies proposed to support massive machine type communications (mMTC) services for the 5th generation (5G) mobile networks. Many emerging services and networking paradigms are expected to be developed on top of NB-IoT networks. This paper summarizes the steps required to build up an open source narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) network. This work is a joint research and development (R&D) result from industry and academic collaboration. The open source NB-IoT enhanced Node B (eNB) is jointly developed by B-COM and NTUST based on the well-known OpenAirInterfaceTM (OAI) open source Long-Term Evolution (LTE) eNB developed by EURECOM. The NB-IoT eNB is successfully connected to an evolved packet core (EPC) developed by Nokia Bell Lab. We demonstrate how to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) NB-IoT module to forward its sensing data to the Internet via the open source NB-IoT network. 


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Conférence
City:
Taipei
Date:
2020-12-07
Department:
Systèmes de Communication
Eurecom Ref:
6281
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