At a regular meeting, the group decided to standardize NB-IOT, a new narrowband radio technology to address the requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT).
That illustrates the expected importance of IoT--it is a narrowband standard set within the context of networks that keep pushing to add more bandwidth.
The new technology is intended to provide improved indoor coverage, support of massive number of low throughput devices, low delay sensitivity, ultra-low device cost, low device power consumption and optimized network architecture.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites [Seven] telecommunications standard development organizations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC) and provides their members with a stable environment to produce specifications that define 3GPP technologies.
The project covers cellular telecommunications network technologies, including radio access, the core transport network, and service capabilities, including work on codecs, security, quality of service.
The specifications also provide hooks for non-radio access to the core network, and for interworking with Wi-Fi networks.
The technology can be deployed “in-band”, utilizing resource blocks within a normal LTE carrier, or in the unused resource blocks within a LTE carrier’s guard-band, or “standalone” for deployments in dedicated spectrum.
NB-IoT is also particularly suitable for the refarming of GSM channels.
The final standard will have to harmonize different proposals. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Intel, LGE, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, and ZTE back the NB-LTE proposal.
Huawei, Vodafone and others back the Narrowband Cellular IoT (CIoT) proposal.
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