… We study three uplink transmission configuration approaches in NB-IoT: 1) RU number
modification; 2) bandwidth reduction; and 3) repetitions. These three approaches are …

… interfaces, eg, narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT), are … NB-IoT uplink framework in the
field of design is presented, as well as its realization and potential use cases. The framework …

… uplink scheduling strategies, which conclude Narrowband Link Adaption (NBLA) [41], the
standard method in 3GPP (Spec) [20], round robin (RR) and random scheduling (Random). …

… both uplink and downlink, with the aim to understand the channel occupancy of NB-IoT for
different real-life IoT … on the capacity of NB-IoT. Finally, results focusing on a new use case for …

… This section presents the theoretical framework for effective data rate analysis of both
downlink and uplink in NB-IoT considering the constraint of overhead channels, packet header …

… These changes in NB-IoT systems, therefore, need to be … random access (RA) step in NB-IoT
systems, which is in fact the … modification to the current NB-IoT RA waveform. Performance …

… In this work, we propose a novel uplink resource allocation … article can act as a framework
for future works in the field. … overall framework proposed in this article to aggregate the IoT …

… (LTE) specification, also known as NB-IoT. The design and … combines the global coverage
of NB-IoT with the advantages of … and characterizing the NB-IoT communication, taking into …

… In this paper, we proposed an enhanced repetitions cooperative process of narrowband
physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH). The NPUSCH is transmitted using one or more …

… frequency offset (CFO) estimation for the narrowband physical random-access channel (NPRACH)
of narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT). The introduced NN architecture leverages …