Conference paper · 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2021

Performance of D2D/NB-IoT Communications in Urban and Suburban Environments

Rodolfo Leonardo Sumoza MatosEmmanuel LujanEsteban Eduardo Mocskos

2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), IEEE, 2021

Abstract

Smart cities are witnessing exceptional growth in their connections, increasing the need for LPWA communications, i.e. low-bitrate, coverage enhancement, ultra-low power consumption, and massive terminal access. 5G Narrowband-IoT has emerged to satisfy these requirements. Notwithstanding, it presents limitations in extreme coverage scenarios, where devices can lose connectivity unnecessarily.

The addition of Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, connecting out-of-coverage devices with a base station through a relay, is a solid approach for mitigating these issues. This study targets two typical scenarios, urban and suburban, measuring the impact of the duty cycle, path-loss, retransmissions and interference, regarding the expected delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and the QoS.

Our simulations show how the behavior of these quantities leads to a novel strategy to avoid disconnection.

The full text is available as a PDF; the version of record is at doi:10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715330.

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Rodolfo Leonardo Sumoza Matos, Emmanuel Lujan and Esteban Eduardo Mocskos, “Performance of D2D/NB-IoT Communications in Urban and Suburban Environments,” 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), IEEE, 2021.
doi:10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715330

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@inproceedings{matos2021performance,
  title={Performance of {D2D/NB-IoT} Communications in Urban and Suburban Environments},
  author={Matos, Rodolfo Leonardo Sumoza and Luj{\'{a}}n, Emmanuel and Mocskos, Esteban Eduardo},
  booktitle={2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)},
  pages={1--12},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715330}
}