Internet of Things (NB-IoT). It is a cellular technology providing wireless connectivity to
machine-type services and applications. In 3GPP Releases 14 and 15, NB-IoT evolved to
meet the requirements defined for a fifth generation (5G) communications system in 3GPP
and in the International Telecommunications Union Radiocommunication (ITU-R) sector.
This paper introduces NB IoT in the context of 3GPP's recent work on 5G. It presents the ITU …