… channel in paging occasions. Therefore, power consumption reduction with the wake-up signal
technique … early data transmission during random access channel (RACH) procedure are …

… initiates a random access (RA) procedure to acquire uplink resource for data transmission.
The UE transmits its first preamble through the narrowband physical RA channel (NPRACH) […

… , random access response (RAR), and message-3 and 4 transmissions [71]. Three DCI
formats are defined for NPDCCH: (i) Format N0 is used for UL scheduling and carrier information …

… physical downlink channels that are Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel (NPBCH), …
, during random access procedure, paging, shared data channel, and transport channel …

… novel PHY layer techniques (modulation, channel coding etc.) capable to efficiently scale
the NB-IoT network while maintaining acceptable data rate and low energy consumption. …

… The 3GPP in [24] defined a new feature for NB-IoT uplink called resource unit (RU), which
is the basic unit for narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) allocation. In the …

… 1) Narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH): carries control signals and
actual data from the UE to the eNB. The data being communicated is differentiated using two …

… • Narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH), … • Narrowband physical random
access channel (NPRACH), … RA procedure • Narrowband physical uplink shared channel (…

… After the UE sends the preamble, it monitors the Narrowband Physical DownlinN Control
Channel and waits for a random access response within a random access response window: …

… The random access procedure in the NB-IoT is initiated by the Narrowband Physical Random
Access CHannel … of 180kHz that accommodates 48 orthogonal channels from which a user …